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From Collaboration to Innovation to Market – Toward a Working Model

Too often today I see lots of hype around various social interaction methods in the enterprise. Companies talking about adopting things like facebook and twitter inside the organization. Some of this is just silly. Like somehow allowing employees to use facebook or twitter is going to help your business.  Collaborative initiatives that are divorced from a specific business purpose are disasters waiting to happen. The future technology to IT to customer to market integration paradigm will requ...

In Support of Strategy

What’s with all the “strategy bashing” of late? How could sound strategic planning possibly be a bad thing? Things have spun so far out of control that I recently had a CEO ask: “Is strategy still relevant in today’s business world, and if so, what role does strategy play in the overall make-up of a CEO’s duties and responsibilities? Let me begin by stating that strategy has never been more relevant than it is today. With all of the current emphasis on tactical execution I guess I understand how...

Future Technology Landscape Alignment for the CIO, IT Director, or Key IT Decision Maker

This series takes a look at the role of the CIO, the current technology landscape, where the gaps are, and this final piece looks at the emerging technology landscape and what the future holds. This is the last post on the future of business to technology alignment.  This four part series covers the entire breadth of the business to technology landscape of the future --, IT organizational alignment, business alignment, and future technology alignment for success in tomorrow's marketplace....