Simultaneously strengthening today’s business while creating tomorrow’s. The chart greatly captures the fact that dual transformation involves three distinct playing fields: Transformation A: Strengthen Today Transformation B: Create Tomorrow…
Cloud Elements study analyzes data on enterprise API use and concludes that API use is growing rapidly, but it also takes careful management. In the new, digital economy, future…
Companies and their CIOs today are facing a serious challenge. Legacy IT infrastructure and applications are a constraint as CIOs look to modernize and adopt newer technologies. There’s a cobbled-together…
Beating the odds Many senior officer committees resist — and there will likely be a high price to pay. According to 2016 research from Innosight Consulting LLC, the average tenure…
Interest grows in startup partnering However, attempts to run a startup within an enterprise aren’t always successful, industry observers noted. For enterprises that don’t wish to follow that track, the…
If you are thinking about doing DevOps also think in terms of starting small, getting executive buy-in, and not reinventing the wheel. DevOps is currently the train every enterprise…
Imagine paying $3,995 for a cell phone. Someone did on March 13, 1984. That person shelled out what was then a quarter of the typical American’s salary to acquire one…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…