Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders

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A variety of psychological tests have shown that people are bad at estimating risk.

During this on-demand webinar, William Ulrich helps you expand the value proposition of your business architecture to facilitate strategic planning, address executive priorities, deliver customer value, leverage investments in major initiatives and deploy horizontal solutions across business units.

As social networking and Web 2.0 applications continue to enter the workplace and rise in importance, it is crucial to be aware that they bring new risks along with new opportunities. Although relatively few companies have as yet introduced strong codes for using these applications, the risks of unrestricted access are beginning to become apparent.

This is the first Executive Update in a three-part series discussing the variety of ways in which organizations, particularly commercial firms, are leveraging virtual worlds to create and capture value. In this Update, I lay out the conceptual foundation for the discussion.

Have you ever noticed a team and thought -- that's a good team? What is it that makes them good? Smart people? Dedicated people? Knowledgeable people? All of the above? Actually, the most important quality is none of the above.

Last month, I wrote about the difficulty IT organizations have in achieving effective integration with business (see "An Attitude Persists: Thinking Business? -- Hah!" 5 May 2010).

In a bit of technological determinism, Nicholas Carr suggests that the Internet is making us dumber.

 

In a bit of technological determinism, Nicholas Carr suggests that the Internet is making us dumber.