Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders

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Insight

Every once in a while, it's therapeutic to vent.

Throughout the 1990s, many organizations gradually retired their homegrown legacy systems and replaced them with COTS equivalents. Large software vendors, such as Oracle, SAP, and PeopleSoft, saw their revenues and profits skyrocket as the dominoes fell.

When the going gets tough, it is an opportunity for IT to shine. The IT organization offers more leverage for a company than do other departments. The IT organization is the only organization in a company that can positively affect every other organization in that company by helping it reduce costs and/or improve the productivity of its people.

The Agile Triangle, shown in Figure 1, was introduced in Agile Project Management, 2nd Edition and has been the subject of several Cutter Advisors. The Agile Triangle encourages teams to be flexible, agile, and adaptable -- it alters how we view success.

I've not always been a fan of the CMM® (Capability Maturity Model). One of the problems with CMM is that it implies a level of precision that is not normally found in the real world. In my experience, I have found that not only is Level 4 very difficult to attain, but it is also hard to maintain.

Abstract

A new generation of customer relationship management (CRM) is emerging. Social CRM brings the promise of Web 2.0 together with the allure of social networks. Is this a breakthrough for CRM? Or is it just another case of overpromise and underdeliver?

The need has never been greater. The promises are many. A new generation of customer relationship management (CRM) is combining with the promise of Web 2.0 and the promise of social networks. Is this finally the elusive breakthrough that we have been searching for so long to find? Or is it just another case of overpromise and underdeliver?