Copyright ©1998-2016 Ziff Davis, LLC . All rights reserved. All product names are trademarks of their respective companies. Ziff Davis, LLC is not affiliated with or endorsed by any company…
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
Companies that are collaborating around data and have high levels of trust internally are on the path to success. A vital component of this success is the CIO, who has…
An enterprise can get larger by merging with other competing enterprises or integrating related but separate activities. There are two dimensions in which an enterprise can integrate, the horizontal and…
Companies need to build IT infrastructure for strategic agility. Strategic agility is defined by the set of business initiatives an enterprise can readily implement. Many elements contribute to agility, including…
Emerging markets are characterized by high volatility. Economic circumstances are constantly changing. Growth rates are often in double digits, and the competitive landscape is often shifting. New laws and regulations…
Much international business strategy is conducted regionally, rather than on national or global levels. Recent research suggests there are only a handful of truly global firms (i.e., firms with a…
The chief technology officer (CTO) role is evolving. Beyond their classic mission as the company’s most senior science and technology executive and an expert resource on technology issues, CTOs are…
Some businesses get started on innovation in response to specific threatening scenarios; others embrace innovation as their core strategy and process. The latter have gone beyond the stage of having…
How can an organization utilizes e-business for a competitive advantage in the marketplace? There are various components to e-business, including the business strategy, the organization or people, and the processes,…
Any business, big or small, succeeds originally due to the fact it delivers a product or service to the market for which a number of persons in the market are…
In an organizational setting, managers are continuously faced with decisions about what products/programs/services to sustain, which to change, and which to abandon, to name but a few organizational dilemmas. How…
The 2008 global financial crisis has shaken up the status quo in the world of risk management and has opened the door for all companies to look at how to…
Operational and marketing strategies alignment In today’s world, the life cycles of many products and services are measured in months. The proliferation of consumer choices in today’s world corresponds to…
A new kind of innovation intermediary has emerged to help companies to transgress their own firm’s innovation network and gain access to external technological markets. These innovation intermediaries i. e.…
Each of your critical customers has unique needs and unique processes/ways of working. The better you understand them, the better you can deliver the right bundle of goods and services—and…
How does one survive in a world where competitive advantage via analytics can be so short-lived? By constantly innovating, thinking differently, and looking at new sources of data and analytic…
The value attached to intangible assets has increased many-fold in the internet based economy. For example, while firms like Microsoft or Coca-Cola only report traditional assets in their balance sheets,…
A brand strategy can be generally defined as the choice of common and distinctive brand elements a company applies across the various products and services it sells and the company…
Corporate growth and success – often measured in terms of turnover or profit – are what’s seen as important, and the business develops a momentum of its own. A…