Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders
Leadership and teaming skills are front and center in times of rapid change. Meet today’s constant disruption head on with expert guidance in leadership, business strategy, transformation, and innovation. Whether the disruption du jour is a digitally-driven upending of traditional business models, the pandemic-driven end to business as usual, or the change-driven challenge of staffing that meets your transformation plans — you’ll be prepared with cutting edge techniques and expert knowledge that enable strategic leadership.
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Insight
The software as a service (SaaS) model has matured as a viable strategic alternative to conventional software service options. With SaaS, customers do not own software but instead share a common code base and set of data definitions that clients are unable to modify. Customer-specific configurations and functional extensions are logically separated from the common code, and customers maintain them.
Domain
E-business
Assertion 183:E-mail -- the 20th century's killer app -- is running into serious resistance in the 21st. Young people in particular are communicating in niche media; thus, the entire domain of business communication is becoming more and more fragmented.
We've recently spent considerable time in IT organizations in the US and in Latin America dealing with aspects of IT financial management. Through the Cutter Benchmark Review, we've also conducted studies for four years about IT budgeting (see "Linking IT Budgeting, Governance, and Value," Vol. 8, No. 7; "The IT Budget: The Centerpiece of IT Governance," Vol. 7, No.
Executive Report
Lean Wireless: Driving Down the Costs of Doing Business
Global companies labor under fixed costs such as taxation but can control variable costs such as labor, IT infrastructures, and repetitive processes. Both wireless technology (e.g., RFID, GPS, real-time location systems, and mobile computing) and the continuous improvement discipline (including lean and Six Sigma) target variable costs; together, they provide a methodology of creating and applying business rules that drive down variable costs. This Executive Report examines this combined "lean wireless" paradigm.
Global companies labor under fixed costs such as taxation but can control variable costs such as labor, IT infrastructures, and repetitive processes. Both wireless technology (e.g., RFID, GPS, real-time location systems, and mobile computing) and the continuous improvement discipline (including lean and Six Sigma) target variable costs; together, they provide a methodology of creating and applying business rules that drive down variable costs. This Executive Report examines this combined "lean wireless" paradigm.
Humans have always had a love-hate relationship with technology in general and IT in particular. We like the potential that it offers in terms of productivity, research, improved quality of life, more responsive service, and its general association with progress. But at the same time we fear the risks of depersonalization, deskilling, and job loss associated with IT, and we react negatively — just like modern-day Luddites.