Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
How to Govern the Ever-Extending Enterprise, Part II Technology is breaking down traditional management practices and paving the way towards the horizontal enterprise, writes CIOUpdate columnist Faisal Hoque of BTM Corp. Here’s how to cope. In Part I of this two-part series I talked about the concept of the “extended enterprise” being nothing new but…
The concept of the “extended enterprise” is hardly new. Even in the early years of the 20th Century when big corporations were gathering all the means of production under their corporate roofs to exercise control, the management theorists were advancing such ideas as the “organization as community” and the “environmental complex” as a management problem….
Technology-driven transformation in the 21st Century business environment puts a premium on the type of model we adopt. Not only are entirely new business models possible they are also necessary for survival. But they must be designed in a manner that allows them to morph into something new on the fly when the environment changes…
No investments can be effective in the long term without consideration of risk. Business risks can be both internal to the firm, such as rolling out an inadequately tested system, as well as environmental, in the form of an unanticipated natural disaster. This creates a challenge for business and technology executives in that while the…
Business leaders often use agility to describe their business plans and strategic initiatives, but it’s often little more than just a vision. Agility is something that requires planning and a full incorporation in business and management processes. It is philosophy and action. And most of all it requires courage and commitment. But what does “agility”…
Money makes the world go ’round. Score one: CFO. Technology moves the money ’round. Score one: CIO. Earning money is the point of business. Money is earned with technology. Score one each. One would think that sooner or later these two chiefs would discover their common ground and mutual interests, and that stories about the…