 How to Bring Agility into the Business
Business leaders use the term "agility" to describe their business plans and strategic initiatives, but it’s often little more than just a vision.
Predictive Modeling Changes the Future
Creating different business scenario models allows executives a window onto possible outcomes, with each scenario representing an alternative for accomplishing the firm’s goals.
Collaboration and the Shared Services Organization
Management of complex, integrated enterprises may run more smoothly with the establishment of a Shared Services Organization.
Establishing a Foundation for Strategic Enterprise Architecture
Technology-driven transformation in the 21st Century business environment puts a premium on the type of model we adopt.
Achieving Business Agility through Convergence
Conventional wisdom says large, established companies cannot be agile. That's not the case.
Governance Beyond Alignment
An enterprise setting out to improve the way it manages business technology must realize that changing its governance and the organization will require time and attention.
Project Mismanagement, Pentagon Style
Be clear on project objectives before falling in love with features -- or you could end up with an expensive dud.
Managing the Virtual Enterprise
Measuring performance in an extended enterprise takes specific knowledge and management skill -- and makes technology into a commodity.
Is Your Technology Strategy Optimized for Risk Management?
No investments can be effective in the long term without consideration of risk.
Are You Enabling an Agile Business?
Business leaders often use agility to describe their business plans and strategic initiatives, but it’s often little more than just a vision.
The Power of Convergence
One sign of a converged company is that the people making decisions on business and technology are the same people - they are conversant in both.
Surviving the Intersection of Technology, the Economy and Business
Those who believed they were immune quickly learned that this economic tsunami was more than they could overcome. We who remain look in the mirror and wonder if we are next.
Healthcare: A Nation of Luddites - A Management and Information
Perspective
You would never put up with anything as inefficient as the US healthcare system in your own organization. Maybe we should apply some of the principles you use to the problem.
Overcoming the Barriers to Operational Efficiency
Today’s enterprises need managment tools to make sense of the technology, to rationalize investment decisions so that they are centered in operational excellence.
Moving Toward Better Business/Technology Leadership
Business and technology strategies must converge, not just align, to be successful.
Enhancing the CFO/CIO Partnership
Money makes the world go ’round. Score one: CFO. Technology moves the money ’round. Score one: CIO. Earning money is the point of business. Money is earned with technology. Score one each.
The Speed of Business Today
Constant change is the new dynamic of the global economy, making agility more necessary than ever.
Repeatable Strategies for Business Technology
This is a textbook example of the strategy and planning principles of business technology management (BTM) - creating an enterprise strategy, identifying the management capabilities needed to execute it, and investing in the technology that will enable these capabilities.
Strategy Execution for Risk Management
Risk management and business technology continuity are complex and critical disciplines. No investments can be effective in the long term without consideration of risk.
Architecting Business Models
Business models are serious business -- too important to leave to the marketers and pitchmen. In essence the technology-driven transformation in today’s business environment puts a premium on the model we adopt.
Beyond Alignment: Organizing and Governing for Performance
An enterprise setting out to improve the way it manages business technology must realize that changing its governance and the organization will require time and attention.
Becoming Better Business-Technology Leaders
The changes required to get a company in fighting shape will be the responsibility of every leader, no matter his or her function or level.
Transformation in Challenging Times
At the end transformation or change is a management challenge. Agile firms are able to improve existing practices and innovate new ones on a regular basis.
Make the Bad Times Work for You
Some of the most famous products, brands, and companies in the history of business were launched during bad economic times.
Designing the Right Kind of Organization
How an organization is structured—its roles, processes and coordination mechanisms—can make or break its ability to achieve effective business technology management.
Will It Be Change, or Just Hope?
The technology challenges President-Elect Barack Obama faces are similar to the ones CEOs grapple with every day. But they also shine a new light on critical infrastructure, security and healthcare issues. How will he handle them?
Driving to the Future
The U.S. auto industry’s pleas to Washington for a bailout are a perfect illustration of the forces making management in the twenty-first century a hair-pulling exercise. We are witnessing a dizzying restructuring of a global industry, with new players popping up anywhere and everywhere, even given the high barriers to entry to the game of making automobiles.
Assessing the Business Value of Technology
Using the right metrics to assess the business value derived from technology is critical in demonstrating the effective-ness of business-technology investments.
Connecting the Business Technology Dots
Companies that learn to leverage technology will improve agility, resiliency and innovation growing revenue and profits faster.
Living on Borrowed Time
Our response to the economic events playing out today should not be panic, retreat or budgetary ax wielding. Instead, we should adopt the management tools necessary to lead a 21st century organization.
Financial Meltdown: A Management Perspective
The lenders, the borrowers and the pundits all now say we should have seen the financial crisis coming. The failures of Wall Street, government agencies and financial institutions to police themselves begs the question: Do governance, business ethics and business models need to be redefined?
Managing Risk from a Board's Eye View
As business technology becomes embedded in core organizational processes, control systems and decision support systems, it is vital that boards appreciate the material risks due to technology and understand the risk-mitigation strategy.
Competition From Emerging Markets
Learn how innovation and knowledge management is leveling the playing field of the knowledge economy. Examples include: Daiichi Sankyo Group, Ranbaxy Laboratories, Boeing and its 787 Dreamliner, InnoCentive, the Linux operating system, Cementos Mexicanos, China’s Haier Group and changes in global Internet use.
Shaping Your Business Strategy
Articulating a strategic vision about the role of business technology is a significant element of governance. Key strategic governance policies should drive business technology management investment, such as spending levels, your applications, security and data portfolio, and the metrics required for evaluating and justifying information technology investments.
The Lessons from DARPA Continue
There are parallels between your organization and DARPA. The global playing field is filled with opportunities and huge risks. Good information, the ability to change quickly and the capacity to move swiftly are the only rational responses.
Governing an Extended Enterprise
Technology is the centerpiece of nearly every new endeavor, from a new product launch to streamlining a process to connecting with partners, suppliers and customers. It is strategic. It is our eyes and ears on the marketplace, and it is the connective tissue with people and organizations outside our four walls that are critical to success.
Going Beyond Borders for Growth
Outsourcing allows an organization to take advantage of a globally distributed pool of resources, while focusing resources and attention on core initiatives and improved business strategy.
Business Technology Governance
Articulating a strategic vision about the role of business technology is a significant element of strategic governance.
Is Your Head In The Clouds
It takes a new way of thinking about information technology and a separation of business from buzzwords to determine the real value
of utility computing in your enterprise.
Thinking Ahead: Preparing Next-Generation Leaders
We may all be in full batten down the hatches mode today, given the gathering economic storm clouds, but will we let the urgent drive out the important?
Politics 2.0 and the Rise of the Underdogs
Social networking, Internet-based tools and innovative thinking will disrupt and transform our electoral process.
Building the Right Architecture
Strategic enterprise architecture defines and describes an organization’s business model and the technology environment necessary to support it.
Are We Arguing Over Money, Again?
Money makes the world go ‘round. And money makes our heads spin when it comes to wise technology investments.
Mitigating Risk Requires Micro and Macro Views
Risks can be classified into three broad categories: systems, sourcing and strategy. Some risks, such as systems and strategy, are predominantly intra-enterprise; others, notably sourcing, reflect inter-organizational challenges.
CFO and CIO: Can't We All Just Get Along?
Finding common strategic ground between technology and the business proves paramount to being a market leader.
Biting the Customer Hand That Feeds Us
The extended enterprise needs to be precisely focused on customer needs.
Business Technology Portfolios
Most enterprises haven’t mastered portfolio and program management to holistically plan and manage their technology infrastructure. Here’s how to fix that.
Are You Having a CIO Identity Crisis?
The extended enterprise needs to be precisely focused on customer needs.
Creating Business Technology Portfolios
Using the right metrics to assess the business value derived from technology is critical in demonstrating the effective-ness of business-technology investments.
Convergence: The Key to Successful Innovation
DeWalt proves that focusing on customer needs and experience, and aligning organizations toward meeting those needs, will lead to greater business advances.
Handling the Census Handheld Debacle
Poor management, not poor technology, will cause the government to spend an additional $3 billion for the next census.
Turning Ideas Into Action
Transform the concepts of business technology investments into a quantified strategic plan that produces value for the enterprise.
Transformation: Inertia to Agility
Business leaders need to incorporate innovation, efficiency and abandonment as a means for reaching greater success.
Connecting the Business Technology Dots
Companies that learn to leverage technology to improve agility, resiliency and innovation grow revenue and profits faster.
Beyond Efficiency
A Ststructure need to be in place for bringing the decision-making power of business and technology together.
Knowing the Blueprints
Modeling is an important part of business technology management because it helps to predict the impact of business and technology change.
Getting Tactical
Technology projects are complex, with myraid inputs and outputs involved...Consequently, there are a number of opportunities for costly errors.
Justifying the Cost
By applying the principles and activities of business technology management, insurers can develop a realistic figure for ROI early on, at minimum cost.
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