Highlights

Proper Investment Management Does Not Discriminate Against Size
Portfolio and program management (PPM) provides enterprise-wide focus on defining, gathering, categorizing, analyzing, and monitoring information on corporate assets and activity as they relate to technology implementation and management.

Blueprint for Business Survival
The economic and business models of the 20th century are inadequate today to ensure tomorrow’s business success; transform or die. It is time to move forward. Nothing short of a total new thinking will assure the essential opportunities to move forward.

Operating Blueprints: Key to Managing PE Portfolio Companies in Volatile Markets
No contractor would build a house without blueprints, and the PE portfolio management operational structure and processes are no different. Every PE portfolio business ought to be using transparent operating blueprints that connect the dots between financial reporting and actual business operations in order to accurately represent such information on behalf of an organization.

Transformative Growth: Architect it with Operating Blueprints
The Global Transformation underway represents extraordinary risk. Business strategies that embrace new socio-economic models and couple powerful new technologies are transforming the way we do business and the nature of the marketplace. Yesterday’s economic and business models are inadequate to ensure tomorrow’s success. It is time to move forward. Only new thinking will do.

7 Steps to Creating a Transformative and Innovative Company
Today’s entrepreneurs need to question and rethink each thing they do, all the while asking themselves what’s working, what isn’t working and why. When the answer to those questions is positive — great! Onwards and upwards! However, when that’s not the case, you have to be ready to change course and find alternatives — dare I say, transform — in order to reach your goals.

Achieving Transformative Success Requires Convergence
Success today rests upon the foundation of Convergence and repeatable, day-to-day cross-functional management disciplines. In a CONVERGED business: Agility is the catalyst. Innovation is sustained. Operations are excellent. Success is transformative.

The Importance of Consistent Management
At a time when the cost of doing business has taken a harder hit than many other periods in recent history, one of the greatest challenges I believe is faced by most corporate leaders – if not all – is the ability to remain focused and true to the vision of an organization while surviving financial stress long enough to be able to continue building on that vision.

 Survive and Thrive in a Bad Economy
How to move forward in a halting economy and succeed in New World Ecology. Tomorrow is today. If you or your company are waiting for things to get better, you’re missing the point: It’s up to you to make things better now. A New World Ecology is coming into being, and you must find a way to be a part of it.

 Social Networks For Social Change
Positive social changes in this era of a post-industrial knowledge economy often are driven by a combination of the power of technology with the power of mass human connections.

 Building a Better Mousetrap
Many challenges stand in the way of government, businesses and corporate leaders, and overcoming these challenges requires new perspectives, thinking and management framework that come together in a focused plan of action.

 Streamlining Value Through Shared Services
As companies become increasingly more complex and, simultaneously, more integrated, the need for additional cross collaboration and more effective leveraging of the resources at their disposal is becoming increasingly significant.

 Surviving Change by Remaining Focused
The problem stems from numerous inefficiencies caused by non-converged oversight, insufficient (or nonexistent) management, deficient accountability structures, and spending programs that are misaligned from intended outcomes.

 Managing the Business of Our Country
The problem stems from numerous inefficiencies caused by non-converged oversight, insufficient (or nonexistent) management, deficient accountability structures, and spending programs that are misaligned from intended outcomes.

 Managing Risk Starts at the Top
Intensified concerns about risk management, auditing and fraud detection, and corporate governance have sensitized boards and top management teams to adopt an even more active role in the oversight of business strategy and key enterprise activities.

 The Importance of Being Agile
Agile organizations have processes and structures that allow them to know what is going on internally and externally, as well as the mechanisms to act on that knowledge in a timely fashion.

 How to Govern the Ever-Extending Enterprise, Part II
How to Govern the Ever-Extending Enterprise, Part II Technology is breaking down traditional management practices and paving the way towards the horizontal enterprise, writes CIOUpdate columnist Faisal Hoque of BTM Corp. Here’s how to cope.

 How to Govern the Ever-Extending Enterprise
The concept of the “extended enterprise” is hardly new. Even in the early years of the 20th Century when big corporations were gathering all the means of production under their corporate roofs to exercise control, the management theorists were advancing such ideas as the “organization as community” and the “environmental complex” as a management problem.

 Using A Humanitarian Business Model
Combining new types of enterprise and technologies can lead to market opportunities.

 Achieving Business Agility through Convergence
Conventional wisdom says large, established companies cannot be agile. That’s not the case.

 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.

 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.

 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.

 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.

 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.

 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.

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.

 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.

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