Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders
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Welcome to the fourth and final installment in a series of Executive Updates that explore the "new outsourcing" and how it may be different from the outsourcing that we have all come to know.
All of us are familiar with today's flood of mobile devices and the multiple impacts and changes this is bringing about in many businesses. We've already experienced the affect of smartphones on our daily lives, and industry studies indicate there will likely eventually be more smartphones in use than PCs, particularly outside of North America.
From the executive suite, there's a virtually never-ending effort to draw on the experiences of others. Even reading articles like this represents an effort to gain from the insights of those with different life experiences. No one individual has all of the answers. The best answers can be drawn from the vast pool of talent that exists around us.
When you combine this culture of innovation and its resultant value with the quality advances you can achieve from implementing methodologies that encourage innovation, you have Value Innovation.
China's national government has devised a strategic plan to support the growth of the software and information services industry. The plan focuses on improving the industry's innovative capability and increasing information services innovation. The plan sets a specific goal, which is increasing the proportion of software and information services revenue in the overall electronics and information industries from 12% to 15%.
Last week, marketing giant Epsilon Interactive reported that hackers had gained unauthorized access to a gigantic trove of email addresses the company manages for its various clients. In fact, this might be the largest data breach ever (or at least ever reported), involving what some estimates report to be millions of customer email addresses and names. About 50 of Epsilon's clients are affected.