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With today's serious budgetary constraints, business and IT decision makers are forced to carry out rigorous due diligence in devising their business-IT alignment strategies. Practitioners must make sure that their strategies assimilate flexible business plans with scalable IT architectures and promote effective cost reductions while delivering the right business value or results.
Last week I was driving to one of my favorite restaurants, listening to National Public Radio. There was a story about the closing of an automobile factory in Fremont, California, USA (see "The End of the Line for GM-Toyota Joint Venture," 26 March 2010).
Formula One racing, dominated by Mercedes and Ferrari, has had a curious relationship with the consumer market. Technology pioneered in Formula One (F1), such as paddle shifters, finds its way into conventional cars. Some consumer technology innovations find their way into the pro circuits. The two feed off each other.
Last year, I wrote about a fascinating article by the New York Times business writer Joe Nocera.1 In the piece, Nocera interviewed Nassim Nicholas Taleb, distinguished professor of risk engineering at New York University and author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highl
I’ve never really liked the word empowerment, it’s just an acronym for delegation. The dictionary defines delegation as—authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions, and empowerment as—give or delegate power or authority. Many people, myself included, have used the word empowerment to mean something more than delegation, but that extra meaning has been fuzzy. Empowerment has been used in conjunction with self-organizing teams, but often been carried too far, as trying to delegate far more authority to agile teams than was prudent.
