 OMG™ Releases Podcast Featuring BTM's Faisal Hoque
The Power of Convergence: Why Bringing Business and Technology Together Matters
Hoque
walks through the BTM Management Practice Framework, including the 17
Capabilities Required to Achieve Convergence.
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.
Quest International Users Group Announces BTM Corporation's
Faisal Hoque to Keynote at CIO Forum 2010
Faisal Hoque will present the Forum’s closing keynote
Monday afternoon
Mr. Hoque’s presentation, “Winning in a Period of Uncertainty through Business and Technology Convergence,” will discuss how creating an environment where technology helps to actually shape, rather than simply enable, strategic choices will require organizations to synchronize their business and technology decision making.
AMACOM to Publish The Convergence Factor
BTM’s Faisal Hoque to Further Define the Financial Value of Business Technology
Management and Convergence
This is a call to arms; a manifesto for making organizations and businesses nimble, agile and able to build differentiated, innovative and adaptable processes that expand their reach and grow revenue even in the most challenging markets and conditions.
BTM Corporation's Faisal Hoque to Keynote at
IBM Impact 2010
Further Highlighting the Financial Value of Business Agility
Impact will include the continued participation of Faisal Hoque, Founder and CEO of BTM Corporation, through two keynote deliveries during the Business Agility Now! Interactive Symposium.
IBM Smart SOA Newsletter
Performance Soars When Businesss and Technology Converge
"Unexpected shifts in the economy, combined with an intensified turbulence in the cost of doing business today, have decreased the life expectancy of corporations, as well as the tenure of their CEOs."
Profit Magazine
Team of Rivals
"Finance runs on information, but where does the information reside? On technology. They both play a key role in running the organization, one from a numbers point of view and the other from an information flow point of view."
Security Technology Executive Magazine
When the Economy Stumbles, Information is Like Gold
"Information is the blood and soul of any organization.....The enterprise risk model encompasses the process for data gathering, data analysis, ultimately how you translate that data into intelligence - that is the critical factor," says Faisal Hoque, one of the country's most dynamic thought leaders on the subjects of technology and business convergence.
Baseline
Overcoming the Barriers to Operational Efficiency
The conventional wisdom of technology in the enterprise is that the new technology adoption will result in innovation and efficiencies that lead to cost reductions and new revenue streams. The reality is enterprises - all things for that matter - operate in constant change.
Government's Management Challenge
In government, as well as in the private sector, making good things happen with technology is primarily a management challenge, not a technologocial one.
Baseline/BTM 500 Study - Convergence: The Wave of Future Success
The ultimate measure of any enterprise activity is how it affects the top and bottom lines. The Baseline/BTM 500 Study finds enterprises that fully integrate business and technology management are more agile, more competitive and potentially more profitable.
Ziff Davis Enterprise
Top 100 Most Influential People in Technology
The ranking, put together by the editorial staffs of eWEEK, CIO Insight and Baseline, sought those who not only had a tangible track record of technology success, but also have far-reaching influence, the ability to effect change and a deep level of engagement in developing emerging technologies.
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
CRO Magazine
Using A Humanitarian Business Model
Combining new types of enterprise and technologies can lead to market opportunities
Wall Street Transcript
Interview with Faisal Hoque
More and more, there is no IT versus the business, it is all becoming the same because business models are highly enabled with technology and its not just technology in terms of information technology, but operational technology and other types of technology as well. That is why we call it convergence of business and technology.
CIO Insight
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."
Video Interview with Faisal Hoque
"With the commoditization of information technology, Does IT Matter author Nick Carr argues in his latest book, the Big Switch, that IT organizations act very much like utilities. The founder and head of BTM Corporation, Faisal Hoque, sees that fact as resulting in the convergence of IT and business sooner rather than later. Hoque chatted with CIO Insight editor Eric Chabrow at our recent CIO Summit in Half Moon Bay, California."
Convergence, Yes; Alignment, No
Aligning IT with business is a fundamentally flawed and limiting concept. Instead, companies should achieve a true melding of IT 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
EnterpriseLeadership.org
Podcast Interview: Move from Alignment to Convergence Benefits the Bottom Line
Forces such as a mobile global workforce, the growing dependency on social media, and the push for more utility computing based on service-oriented architecture are driving businesses to converge their technology strategy with their business strategy. As a result, CIOs take on the new role of information officer not chief IT officer.
Podcast Interview: Holistic Technology
Hoque discusses how his converged business and technology model works, and gives his view on critical issues like why governance, strategy and plan, business architecture, and investment management drive innovation and growth, why half of all corporate initiative fail, and why our ability to manage business technology not kept pace with our ability to create it.
CIO Update
Defining Innovation
It's the new buzzword but what, when the CEO comes calling, does "innovation" mean?
According to BTM Corp. Founder and CEO Faisal Hoque, innovation equals information leading to knowledge that impacts the business.
Optimizing Processes for Innovation and Agility
This time around it's all about the business, writes CIO Update guest columnist Faisal Hoque of BTM Corp.
Executive Travel Magazine
Innovation Evolves - The Optimist: Innovation Will End Poverty
Success today, in any venue, requires sustained innovation, so the organizations that thrive are the ones that understand technological improvements can be harnessed-and that every business process can be reconsidered and made more efficient.
Forbes.com
Technology Convergence Adds Value, Data Show
Convergence provides the enterprise with the platform to thrive during marketplace changes rather than just react to survive.
CIO Magazine
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.
IT Value Metrics: How to Communicate ROI to the Business
CIOs are always faced with pressure to justify their IT expenditures. Now, new research can help correlate those IT dollars spent with business value accrued.
Looking Back: The Growth of the CIO Role and IT Value
From green screens to flat screens; from a desk in the basement to a seat in the boardroom. Twenty years in review.
Wall Street Journal
The Technology Disconnect
It’s hard to find a glimmer of hope in the technology world these days.
IndustryWeek
Survey Says "Whole Brained" Corporations Profit From Convergence
Whatever the nature of the firm -- whether a new hybrid or a large traditional organization -- the management practices that create convergence can enable any firm to realize its strategic mission.
Investor's Business Daily
Don't Mix Right Startup With The Wrong Investors
"Hoque is so determined to grow BTM at his own steady pace that he has rebuffed investors who didn't share his philosophy. He knows the fit has to be right."
COMPUTERWORLD
How Converging Business and Technology Pays Off
Is your organization carried on the back of a management hero the brilliant, hard-charging CEO or CIO who makes things happen for awhile but isnt around for more than a handful of company picnics?
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.
Thunderbird: 2007 Sustainable Innovation Summit
Thunderbird School of Management: Global Thought Leaders' Forum
Video Q&A Session with Faisal Hoque
Microsoft
What is the secret recipe for innovation?
A union of the business and technology sides of the house are no longer an option but a vital part of innovation.
TechNewsWorld
Census 2010: Rock, Paper, Scissors
Investment and strategic planning and the overarching architecture and policy for the Census cannot be independent from one another -- but that is what I think happened here.
eWeek: Channel Insider
Is This Really Globalization?
Developing countries have raw skills. They’re not innovative. They’re not enterprising and commercialized. The things they can produce, there is no market for them in the local market.
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.
The Stamford Advocate
"Whenever you create a new service or a new solution, you have to collaborate with others in the industry and other folks that are not part of your routine," Hoque said. "Nobody has really looked at (the convergence of business and technology) the way we looked at it and come up a very innovative way to solve this problem." |