Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders

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The ancient philosopher, Aristotle, wrote a book about "making." In it, he used plays -- tragedies -- as his example of a complicated made thing, and he declared plot the "soul" of tragedy. He defined "plot" as the principle of arrangement for all the other parts.

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Migrating IT systems and infrastructure to cloud ecosystems cuts costs and improves service delivery. However, moving complex IT infrastructures directly to cloud architectures is not simple or easy. As discussed in this Executive Report, an enterprise needs to look not only at the technical aspects but also at how migration will affect business operations.

Executives make decisions every day. They base them on their wealth of personal and professional experience. They base them on the available information sets.

Leaders of technology companies should take change management more seriously. While this is also true of changes to requirements, products, and other elements normally handled by change-control systems, here we're talking about the type of change management that's associated with organizational change. Such change deals with altering what goes on inside an operation.

Social media, including but not limited to social networks, is no longer just where you spend your evenings when