Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders
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Insight
How do you manage a large organization in today's high-tech environment? More to the point, how do you manage a real-time organization working at Internet speed? These are the questions managers everywhere are faced with today.
CHANGE IS CHANGING 1 March 2000 by Jim Highsmith
The Internet changes everything. Okay, now that we're through the obligatory opening for every article these days, let's focus on the key issue for business-IT alignment -- change is changing.
The emergence of a knowledge economy has altered the nature of work, the fate of companies, and the fate of nations.-- Nuala Beck, 1999
DOES EXPERIENCE HAVE VALUE IN DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS? 1 March 2000 by Alan MacCormack
As we cast a glance at the hoards of Internet start-ups filled with 26-year-olds queuing at the doors of venture capital firms, we might wonder if past experience has any value in these crazy times,
On the desk in my office sits an entirely self-contained, enclosed, living ecosystem. Five inches high, this microcosm of life contains algae, very small shrimp and snails, and multitudes of microscopic bacteria, all living by exchanging stuff with each other and by converting light to biochemical energy.
A LEARNING APPROACH FOR SCM SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT by Frank Scavo
Supply chain management (SCM) is a hot topic.
Executive Summary
XML: Solving Business Problems
The evaluation of cutting-edge technologies can be a difficult task in the face of the hype that naturally accompanies their evolution. XML is no different from other technologies in this respect. If you believe the hype, XML obviates the need for Java, brings Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) into the Internet era, replaces the relational database, and revolutionizes the development of Web sites.
TRENDS IN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT by Richard T. Dué
"Castles, gardens, gold, and jewels
Contentment signify, for fools
Like Princess Nell, but those
Who cultivate their wit
Like King Coyote and his crows