Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
In business as in life, bad ideas are ubiquitous. In life, we often get a chance to grow up, be forgiven, and learn from our mistakes, but bad ideas in business can be devastating and unrecoverable. So, when they begin to take root and start damaging morale, blocking innovation, and destroying value, you must recognize…
Businesses go through several stages of evolutionary development and in each one they demand different things in order to survive and to prosper. In an organization’s early entrepreneurial beginnings, the focus lies in getting customers and generating enough revenue to stay alive. Centralized systems for managing workflow, delegated leadership, and formal business planning lay far…
Editor’s Note: This clients-only report was first produced in January 2010 and is being reprinted here with permission from The Hackett Group. As companies slowly emerge from the recession, they are encountering fundamental changes in the global business environment. These changes will have far-reaching implications for the way IT services are provided and funded and…