Highlights

Chief Executive
You’re Married, Now What?
“Acquiring companies focus on the numbers; they give much less attention to who will run the show and how,” agrees Faisal Hoque, founder and CEO of BTM Corporation, and author of The Power of Convergence. “Few have a process for integrating the best people, technologies, processes and functions,” Hoque adds. “They don’t consider how the business process architecture will come together in terms of the supply chain, distribution and customer care.”

The Hindu Business Line
Reap business value from tech investments
“Most of you remember LEGO from your childhood, playing with the building blocks the company is famous for. But around 2004, when Jorgen Vig Knudstorp took the reins of the company, it was bleeding more than $300 million annually, recounts Faisal Hoque.”

CSMonitor
Silicon Valley in Transition
“If you look at those companies which have been enormously successful in Silicon Valley in the last five to 10 years, you find that they are largely founded on the business-to-consumer model,” says Faisal Hoque, CEO of BTM Corporation, which analyzes the convergence of business and technology management.

Companies can sag upon transition from founder to successor. Will Apple?
But “every firm with a charismatic leader and public face must eventually move from constantly being disruptive to a sustainable process for the long term,” says Mr. Hoque, author of “The Power of Convergence: Linking Business Strategies and Technology Decisions to Create Sustainable Success.”

 Forbes
With Great Startups It’s All About The Execution
People and operational excellence have to converge in every business, large or small.  I found a good summary of the relevant keys to business operational excellence in a new book by Faisal Hoque, called “The Power of Convergence.” His focus is on repeatable practices to maximize business opportunities in large companies, but I’m convinced that these apply equally well to startups.

Collaborate to Innovate
“Working in high tech, I am surrounded by innovative ideas and collaboration-influenced projects. But is this the norm? I was surprised to find out that the average life span of S&P companies has been steadily decreasing from more than 50 years to fewer than 25 years as of today. When you project forward, it is likely that only a third of today’s major corporations will survive as significant businesses over the next 25 years. (data points from the Speed of Business Today by Faisal Hoque). This is a sobering thought!”

 Bloomberg Businessweek
New Business Books
A list of books about job-hunting, careers, management, leadership, entrepreneurship, and success.

CIO Magazine
The Necessity of Partnering Up
“Whether you are Microsoft or General Electric the same rules apply,” says Hoque, who is also the founder of BTM, a management solution provider. “You can’t be the innovative leader in every single category you go after.”

What We’re Reading from the May 15, 2011 Issue of CIO Magazine
Everyone’s trying to figure out how to get business and technology working in harmony, and Hoque, formerly a senior executive at GE and author of Sustained Innovation, charts out a path. He offers advice on leadership, innovation, enterprise architecture, agility and more, all illustrated with helpful diagrams.

Study Provides Evidence That Technology Execution Leads to Business Performance
This is not about a project or ROI, but it’s about overall performance of the company.

 Wall Street Journal
The Technology Disconnect
It’s hard to find a glimmer of hope in the technology world these days.

 Innovate Forum
An Interview with Faisal Hoque by Amy Rowell, Executive Editor of Innovate Forum
Business and technology are inexorably linked in the quest to achieve sustained innovation.

 InformationWeek
Microsoft To Buy Skype For $8.5 Billion
“It’s the same reason why you use Google versus Bing–it’s a much more popular environment,” Faisal Hoque said. “I think people are more inclined to have both internally and externally focused communications over Skype.”

 Baseline
Spring Books for Technology Leaders
The head of the BTM Institute (along with a former Baseline editor) offers a new take on the convergence of business and technology strategies.

 CIO Quarterly
Finding Common Ground: Moving through alignment to a state of convergence
“In this issue of CIO Quarterly, global technology leaders and Mr. Convergence himself, Faisal Hoque, aim to give answers to these tough questions, discussing “in detail” the alignment evolution. Hoque, the architect of the Business Technology Convergence Index, advocates the importance of creating a ‘whole-brained enterprise’, where business and technology activities are intertwined and leadership teams operate almost interchangeably. And progressive CIOs agree.” – Editor-in-Chief, CIO Quarterly

The Wall Street Transcript
Interview with Faisal Hoque
“BTM Corporation is a management solutions provider that innovates new business models, enhances financial performance and improves operational efficiency at leading global corporations, government agencies and social businesses by converging business and technology with its unique products and intellectual property.”

 CIO Insight
Choosing Business Technology: Strategy Matters
Mr. Hoque reveals how top execs can lead the way for breakthroughs that address business values first and foremost.

Interview with Faisal Hoque
This interview was conducted by CIO Insight Magazine at the recent 2008 Sino-American CIO Summit held in Beijing, China. Faisal delivered a presentation entitled, “Convergence: The Wave of Future Success – Measuring Innovation and Growth to Bolster the Bottom Line.”

Convergence, Yes; Alignment, No
Aligning technology with business is a fundamentally flawed and limiting concept. Instead, companies should achieve a true melding of technology and business minds–what he calls convergence.

Eleven Technology Chiefs Make The Cut in Ziff Davis Enterprise’s 2008 List
The rest of the list is dominated by big names from technology vendors and service providers, as well as notable thinkers like Gary Hamel, Faisal Hoque and Nicholas Carr.

Editor’s Picks: 10 Best Business Books of 2007
Sustained Innovation Selected as One of the Top 10 Business Books of 2007

Five Insightful Transformation Books
Sustained Innovation and Winning The 3-Legged Race are selected as 2 of the 5 Top Transformation Books of last few years that can help align strategies and transform organizations in CIO Insight magazine.

Ziff Davis Enterprises
Faisal Hoque Named As One of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Technology
Mr. Hoque conceived and developed Business Technology Management (BTM) to direct the economic growth of organizations by converging business and technology, helping transform them into ‘whole-brained  enterprises’.

 The Daily News Paper of Bangladesh: The Daily Ittefaq
Story of Faisal Hoque and BTM Corporation
A native of Bangladesh, Faisal Hoque is the the Founder, Chairman and CEO of the BTM Corporation. He is the author of e-Enterprise, The Alignment Effect, Winning The 3-Legged Race, Six Billion Minds, and Sustained Innovation.

 Italian Magazine: WMT
Interview with Faisal Hoque
In this interview with Web Marketing Tools (WMT), Italy’s number one magazine dedicated to exploring technology related issues, columnist and technology consultant Gianroberto Casaleggio opens the interview by asking Faisal Hoque about his latest book, The Alignment Effect and why companies find it so difficult to get business results from technology.

 IBM Impact Events Blog
Interview with Faisal Hoque 
Thought leader, entrepreneur and CEO of BTM Corporation, Faisal Hoque talks about Business Agility at Impact 2010.

 Business Agility
Smart Devices & the Cloud Speed Business Agility
“This brings a whole new class of data to analytics,” says Faisal Hoque, founder and CEO of BTM Corp. “In the case of retail it is data that comes directly from the customer. There is no better customer data.”

Finding the Future in the Clouds
“Agile firms fine-tune their existing best-practices and innovate new ones,” says Faisal Hoque, CEO of BTM Corp.

 Building Smart Applications Blogs
Why Are We Agile?
“Traditional practices did not stress the need for innovation, but business now runs very differently than it did in the past. Boundaries no longer exist, and we play on a global field, where unforeseen changes in the marketplace and the competitive climate can arise at any time. (Hoque, 2010)”