The quest for ‘fast flow’ in the IT value stream
The risk gap for IT service provision As senior IT leaders we need to understand the drivers of this radical and rapid change. As I’ve been reflecting on this drastic…
The new products development process and IT innovation
In 1995 the U.S. government kindly made available 30 satellites, and the age of public GPS was born. As a result, within a few years countless businesses either changed the…
Can Virtual Companies Scale?
A lot of firms start out as virtual companies, but as they grow, they move into office space. It turns out there are advantages to staying virtual, however. We…
Business Needs Innovation Ecosystems
The significant transformation taking place around exploiting technology and digital management has made ecosystems and platforms a mainstream prospecting need, in most of our businesses today. We must engage…
The Marriage of Tax and Strategy
Tax discussions have the rare power to put senior executives to sleep yet keep them up at night worrying. Business leaders have traditionally compartmentalized tax management as a compliance…
These 4 Major Paradigm Shifts Will Transform The Future Of Technology
For the past fifty years or so, technology has followed a fairly predictable path. We squeeze more transistors onto silicon wafers, which makes chips more powerful and devices smaller.…
Building a Culture that Thrives on Innovation Agility
The Conceptual Age We are living in an age of disruption, where changes are accelerating making innovation a strategic and systemic necessity and competitive lever to ensure your organization’s…
The Future of Insurance: 15 predictions for 2017
This is an excerpt from Matthew Griffin’s upcoming paper The Future of Insurance 2020 Beyond. It is clear from the developments and progress made in 2016 though that the…
Customer-driven innovation for entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs doing VC pitching are providing solutions to a problem they solve in a market. When you are really good at entrepreneurship, you begin to see how things that are…
7 Habits Of Effective Leaders You’re Not Doing Enough Of
Chances are even if you aren’t familiar with the AMB Group, you’re familiar with their work: it is the investment management and support services arm of Home Depot founder Arthur…
Clayton Christensen: Competing Against Luck
Competing Against Luck is the rather curious title of a new book by the eminent innovation guru, Clayton Christensen, ably assisted by three acolytes, Hall, Dillon, and Duncan. It…
Why We Need T-Shaped Innovators
Editor’s note: For newcomers who may not be familiar with the concept, the term T-shaped is used to describe people who have depth of skills and experience in one…
10 Principles for Leading the Next Industrial Revolution
It isn’t often that the broad infrastructure that underlies industrial civilization undergoes a dramatic transformation. But just such a change appears to be happening now. As sensors spread through factories…
The strategic CIO’s first day: In search of IT operational excellence
It’s your first day as CIO. You have a real office with glass walls, a door that closes, a hyper-adjustable ergonomic chair and a desktop that moves up and down…
How to Do DevOps in Old-School Organizations
The best approach to DevOps is one step at a time, and that is particularly true for a well-established enterprise. Your organization may not fit the definition of a…
What Every CEO Should Know for Successful Change
Your organization has embarked on a new venture which is going to require a lot of change. Of course everyone is hoping for the best – but please allow…
The Hardest Part of Digitization: Cultural Change
Companies that fail to come up with a clear strategy and roadmap face the risk of being stranded in organizational inertia. Digitization is a global megatrend, causing shock waves…
Keys to a Successful Cloud Adoption for CIOs
Many CIOs are shifting their company from legacy systems to cloud technology to reap wide-ranging IT infrastructure benefits, including increased agility, scalability to support growing demands, better embedded security…
Poor Data Quality Is Harming Companies
Only a minority of IT and business professionals said they trust their organization’s data to make key business decisions, according to a recent survey from Experian Data Quality. The accompanying…
The New Rules Of Employee Performance Management
When I say the words “Performance management,” what’s your first reaction? Maybe you immediately flash back to uncomfortable annual reviews you’ve had – ones where you sat, pensively, opposite an…