Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders
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Does this make sense? We don't think so. In fact, technology innovation has not only continued to advance at a fast clip, but the nature of the innovation has been nothing short of profound.
Who owns all these activities in your company? While we'll focus primarily on strategic requirements in this Update, it's also important to map the requirements-gathering processes and identify their owners.
Not too long ago, when everyone was focused on e-business, business models were scrubbed several times a month. When the dot-coms crashed and burned, many companies returned to their strategic planning roots, to processes that assumed more continuity and less volatility.
Few areas of business have produced as many surprises as has IT. If we look back over the past 40 years or so, we see an accelerating pattern of advance, driven by Moore's Law, in which technologies rise, propagate, and are then eclipsed by new and better technologies. And IT companies come and go almost as rapidly (e.g., Wang, Digital).