Sustained Innovation
Converging Business and Technology to Achieve
Enduring Performance
Publishers: BTM Press, March 2007
Using case studies from F100, social enterprises, and government sector, this latest publication of the BTM Press shows how companies can innovate to survive and even thrive in the global knowledge economy. It draws on best selling author Faisal Hoque's breakthrough Business Technology Management (BTM) models; many years of hand-on experience with major Fortune 100 companies; his own entrepreneurial innovations; and years of multi-disciplinary research. Sustained Innovation demonstrates the need for a seamless, structured management approach that begins with board and CEO-level issues and connects all the way through technology
investment and implementation. It proves that any organization can be configured
to make innovation repeatable. Read More...
Six Billion Minds
Managing Outsourcing in the Global Knowledge Economy
Publishers: BTM Institute/Aspatore, April 2006
This publication of the BTM Institute -- Six Billion Minds: Managing Outsourcing in the Global Knowledge Economy -- is a wake-up call to global leaders. A collaboration among the most accomplished academics and global leaders (over 60 top international figures), this book examines management challenges and innovation opportunities in light of the profound impact of globalization and the emergence of the knowledge economy. It shows how to build excellence by leveraging the vast global knowledge pool of the "six billion minds" that make up the emerging knowledge economy, which is driven by the convergence of business and technology. Read More...
Winning The 3-Legged Race
When Business and Technology Run Together
Publishers: BTM Institute/Prentice Hall, November 2005
As the BTM Institute's first major publication, Winning The 3-Legged Race - When Business and Technology Run Together shows that it is possible to subject business technology to a comprehensive set of management processes and standards. Furthermore, this book shows that this is not just a technology issue. It is, instead, a business issue, and it will not see resolution until enterprises have a fundamentally better way to manage technology's contribution to the value chain. Through BTM, enterprises manage technology in lockstep with the business and create environments in which technology helps shape(rather than simply enable) strategic choices. Leading enterprises are working to synchronize(rather than simply align) their business and technology decision-making. And in the best-managed modern enterprises BTM will ensure that technology ultimately converges with the business. Read More...
The Alignment Effect
How to Get Real Business Value Out of Technology
Publishers: Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 2002
Following up to the highly acclaimed e-Enterprise, Founder and Chair, BTM Institute, and Chairman and CEO of BTM Corporation, Faisal Hoque combines proven guidance with object lessons from Fortune 500 executives and industry authorities in The Alignment Effect to compellingly illustrate how corporations can get the real, bottom-line business results they need from their IT investments. Don't miss this must read, widely regarded by business executives and used at top universities as a primer for MBA students. Read More...
e-Enterprise
Business Models, Architecture, and Components
Publishers: Cambridge University Press, 2000
A clear blueprint is critical to keeping technology initiatives on course, especially when those initiatives extend beyond a company's borders. In e-Enterprise (Cambridge University Press), Faisal Hoque offers an incisive analysis of the fundamentals of Net commerce success. Now in its third printing and available in several languages, it's an essential guide for CEOs, chief information officers, and managers tasked with overseeing the real-time enterprise. Read More...
SELECT REVIEWS
Sustained Innovation
Selected as one of the Top 10 Business Books of 2007
Ziff/Davis/CIO Insight
December 14, 2007
Winning The 3-Legged Race and Sustained Innovation
Selected as two of the Top 5 Transformation Books of last few years
CIO Insight
December 7, 2007
Sustained Innovation |
“We are in the Era of Innovation, brought about by tectonic shifts in the
global marketplace and by the staggering needs of millions of the
world’s people. In his usual fashion, Faisal Hoque presents this highly
readable and thought-provoking book to take us on an international
tour of the corporations, governments and social enterprises like our
Grameen, that are organizing in new ways to transform the 21st
Century. By marrying the power of technology and business, there is
very little we can’t accomplish. Sustained Innovation shows where
and how this is happening and inspires us to join in this new era.”
–Professor Muhammad Yunus
Founder of Grameen Bank
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
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“Sustained Innovation provides an intellectual framework which
skillfully pulls together dozens of examples of innovation from
around the world ranging from the design of healthcare management
systems to the microcredit project of Professor Yunus in
Bangladesh, the recent winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.”
–Sir Paul Judge
Vice Chairman, American Management Association
Chairman of the Royal Society of Arts
and of Schroder Income Growth Fund plc.
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“An insightful, well written book on innovation. The authors have
done well to capture stories of innovation across the board—from
Fortune 500 to Social Enterprises. The book is rich in ideas that
highlight how to leverage technology to create sustainability in
business or in doing good.”
–Dr. Leslie Willcocks
Professor of Technology Work and Globalization
London School of Economics
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Winning The 3-Legged Race
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"If you want a book that is focused on the alignment between business and technology, look no further...A must-read for today's executive."
–Computer World Magazine
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"This book should also be read by executives seeking competitive advantage through the blending of technology and business or why they think they think there is a gap between where their current business are and where they think they ought to be."
–C2M Magazine |
"The authors of this book have come up with a wonderful metaphor: Managing technology is like running a three-legged race."
–CIO Insight Magazine |
"The first major publication of the Business Technology Management Institute (BTM Institute), Winning The 3-Legged Race shows how to subject business technology to a comprehensive set of management standards. It outlines the critical concepts for business technology management (BTM), an emerging management science, and offers concrete executive agendas."
–CIO Magazine
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Six Billion Minds
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"As the world becomes ever more connected, business leaders will need to recognize the issues set forth in Six Billion Minds. Globalization will not disappear, and neither will the appeal of sourcing around the world. How to think about these issues… and how to make the right decisions regarding them is the mission of this book - a mission which everyone who aspires to a leadership role in the 21st Century should undertake."
–Dr. Krishna Palepu
Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration
Senior Associate Dean, International Development Harvard Business School
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"The premise here is simple. The knowledge economy now exists everywhere—that's where the "six billion minds" in the title comes from—and your job as a manager is to figure out how to access that knowledge and use it for your company's competitive advantage. As Hoque writes: Innovation springs from the minds of people everywhere in the world today, and the challenge is to discover what they know and connect to them. To help you tap into that global expertise, the authors—members of the BTM Institute, a nonprofit devoted to improving ways to integrate business and technology—talked to some 60 people to get their perspective."
–CIO Insight Magazine |
"Six Billion Minds is a clear window on our rapidly changing world. It draws on an impressive breadth of wisdom and practical knowledge to help us comprehend and prepare ourselves for a tightly connected, global economy. All organizations - government, corporate, nonprofit - will have to adapt to this new order of things, and this book is an excellent primer for meeting that challenge. As the world becomes ever more connected, business leaders must engage the issues set forth in Six Billion Minds. Globalization will not go away, and neither will the appeal of sourcing around the world. How to think about these issues, and how to make the right decisions regarding them, is the mission of this book, drawing together a wealth of knowledge and practical insight from leading thinkers around the world."
–Shimon Peres
Former Prime Minister, Isreal
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
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"For those of us who believe in the inevitability of globalization, no better primer on the subject exists than "Six Billion Minds". Mark Minevich has assembled articles by some of the world’s best thinkers on globalization and its consequences, not to give us the answers to the above questions - after all, no one knows precisely how things will eventually work out - but to stimulate our minds and help us to think more clearly and deeply about the issues. "Six Billion Minds" is a book that everyone affected by the forces of globalization should read and, more important, learn from."
–Dr. Irving Wladowsky Berger
IBM VP of Technology and Innovation
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The Alignment Effect |
"The companies that will get ahead and stay ahead in today's interconnected business environment will be those that take control of technology, not those that let technology take control of them. Business leaders who want grab the reins and steer IT in the same direction as the rest of the business must read this book."
–Charles B. Wang
Founder and Chairman of the Board
Computer Associates International, Inc. |
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"The Alignment Effect paints a vivid picture of information technology's worst-kept secret: IT cannot, by itself, solve your business problem. To solve your problem, any new technology must be carefully aligned with your business objectives and processes. Otherwise, save your money. Read this book if you want to ensure the success of your own technology implementation!"
–Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, Ph.D.
Authors of the One to One series of books on
managing individual customer relationships |
"The examples of business/technology alignment and misalignment speak to every reader. Rarely have horror stories been explained so clearly, and Hoque shows how to ensure alignment so that next year's horror stories don't involve your company."
–Don Tapscott
International best-selling author of
The Digital Economy and Growing Up Digital |
"Top executives have realized for years that closing the gaping distance between technology and business can provide their organization with a strong, defensible, competitive advantage. However, knowing it and executing it are very different. The Alignment Effect finally clearly lays out a process of how to do it, and do it right."
–Chuck Martin
Author, Managing for the Short Term |
"In this soon-to-be-released guide to alignment strategy, the experiences of industry experts and Fortune 500 executives provide object lessons on the pitfalls of "technology for the sake of technology," while the author lays out the benefits of what he calls Business Technology Management (BTM) to help corporate decision-makers reduce risk and increase efficiency."
–CIO Insight Magazine
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e-Enterpise |
"If you think you know the components of modern information technology for e-Applications but not business strategy, this is for you. If you think you understand business strategy but not technology components, this is also for you."
–- Edward Brginsky
Chief Technology Officer
BEA Systems |
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"In less than five years, business use of Internet has moved from curious novelty to ubiquitous reality. It's no longer just about selling products on the Web, but moving entire business processes online for speed, flexibility, and customer responsiveness. That's not always easy, e-Enterprise offers a roadmap to help companies make that transformation."
–Clinton Wilder
Editor At Large
Information Week |
"Whether you're creating a new e-business or using e-technology to add bandwidth to your existing business, this book is a must-read. Faisal Hoque provides an excellent conceptual framework and marries this with proven systems concepts employed by high-performing organizations. This is the recipe for rapid development of highly scalable e-systems that maximize return on investment. It should be required reading for e-business decision-makers and technologists alike."
–Ron Griffin
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
The Home Depot |
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