Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders

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Companies today require both an enduring focus on continuous improvement and an organization-wide emphasis on exceeding customer expectations to achieve operational

Global competition and unprecedented transparency are driving the need for organizations to become more operationally excellent.

The Middle Ages used a phrase to describe a term that was not meaningful as "a distinction without a difference." Oftentimes, in the desire to catch a technological/marketing wave, salespeople and consultants overuse terms coined to describe one thing to mean something entirely different.

We must refrain from the male altogether.

So spoke Lysistrata, the heroine main character in Aristophanes's circa 410 BC comedic play of the same name, who forms an alliance among the women of Greece in which they agree to withhold sex from their husbands until the men decide to end the Peloponnesian War.

A recent Cutter Consortium survey (conducted July through September 2013) of 39 end-user organizations based worldwide helps shed some insight into corporate BI and data warehousing spending trends for the upcoming year.

The rise of pervasive connectivity and social media certainly means more opportunities to look bad -- but also more opportunities to learn and look good. In this changing environment, companies that make the commitment to be a learning organization, become truly curious about their customer experience, and take on continuous improvement will be the ones that take the best advantage of "the Connected Age." In this Executive Report, we will explore what has changed about collecting customer research since the rise of the cloud and what these changes mean. We'll enumerate the many ways you can learn more than ever before about your company, your products and services, and your customers -- and how they interact.

From the 1920s to the 1990s, radio and television dominated our lives and drove a one-way connection from companies to customers.

For those of you who track such things, October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) in the US. As you know, I am really concerned with cyber security. I'm not sure, however, that we really need a precise month for this right now.