The increase in the proportion of a company's value that stems from its intellectual assets has become a fact of business in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a bold global agenda helping the world move beyond traditional indicators such as GDP growth and per capita income to a broader set of objectives that include well-being, environmental sustainability, and social fairness. In this Executive Update, we describe the individual and organizational benefits of contributing to the SDGs as well as how organizations can leverage business architecture to achieve these goals.
This Executive Update draws from the lessons of the Boeing MAX groundings to illustrate the importance of selecting, monitoring, and acting upon risk indicators to preemptively manage risk, as well as providing opportunities to reduce total cost of risk, improve financial performance, and assure stakeholders that risk is being addressed on a controlled and informed basis.
In a world where change and threat come from all sides, from familiar competitors and directions as well as from left field, it behooves all of us to consider how to fend off competitive or substitute threats arising from disruptive technology innovations.
Man is a measuring animal. Making a choice between alternatives requires sensing, thinking, and doing. Sometimes we need to decide within seconds; sometimes we have the luxury of time.
Today, enterprise resource planning (ERP) is used more to drive business improvements and the operational efficiency of organizations, and any delays or budget overruns in implementing projects could affect the business.