Elevating Technology on the Boardroom Agenda
Boards are starting to guide management by asking the right questions about technology.
Content: Article | Authors: Brad Brown, Johnson Sikes, Michael Bloch | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Corporate Governance, IT / Technology / E-Business
Competing in a Digital World: Four Lessons from the Software Industry
Software is becoming critical for almost every company’s performance. Executives should ask what they can learn from business models employed by software providers themselves—and consider the implications for their IT function.
Content: Article | Authors: Hugo Sarrazin, Johnson Sikes | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Business Model, Strategy
Hugo Sarrazin and Johnson Sikes
Success in the software industry has long been influenced, and often driven, by the ecosystem of developers, plug-ins, software-development kits and application-programming interfaces (APIs), and add-ons that drive added value and increase stickiness for products. Similarly, companies in other industries need to think expansively and include upstream suppliers as well as downstream vendors or consumers, and focus on how each part of the value chain … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Authors: Hugo Sarrazin, Johnson Sikes | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Business Rules, Strategy
Reshaping IT Management for Turbulent Times
A new model for managing IT combines factory-style productivity to keep costs down with a more nimble, innovation-focused approach to adapt to rapid change.
Content: Article | Authors: Hugo Sarrazin, Johnson Sikes, Roger Roberts | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business