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[Economics and technology] are the wrong places to begin. The fundamental changes are social, and they are the greatest changes imaginable.

Content: Quotation | Author: Peter F. Drucker | Source: Context Magazine | Subjects: Economics, Future, IT / Technology / E-Business

What brings repeated success in mergers and acquisitions? What ensures that IT does not cause a deal to falter? A playbook that makes IT integration faster, better, and future-proof.

Content: Article | Authors: Charles Hughes, Farhan Mirza, Shubradeep Ghosh | Source: Kearney | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Mergers & Acquisitions

In most companies, the pressure to create new IT-enabled functionality usually takes precedence over fixing what’s broken or underperforming. The perverse result of piling new capabilities on top of an increasingly rickety foundation is to add unnecessary complexity and drive up costs, making it harder for IT to serve even basic business requests in a timely manner.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Marc van der Vleugel, Nigel Cornish, Rudy Puryear | Source: Bain & Company | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business

Many IT organizations are so busy fixing today’s issues that they have no time to build the capabilities needed for tomorrow—a critical shortcoming when adding value is the goal. To plan actively for the future, IT has to close the gap between the need and ability to deliver.

Content: Article | Authors: Eric Stettler, Kevin Cheung, Rajeev Duggirala, Surendra Agrawal | Source: Kearney | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business

Develop a sophisticated, more strategically oriented information technology approach.

Content: Article | Authors: David Hovenden, Mark Johnson, Peter Burns | Source: strategy+business | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business

Large IT efforts often cost much more than planned; some can put the whole organization in jeopardy. The companies that defy these odds are the ones that master key dimensions that align IT and business value.

Content: Article | Authors: Jürgen Laartz, Michael Bloch, Sven Blumberg | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Project Management

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If we’re going to make better decisions and take the right actions, we’re going to have to use analytics. For too long, managers have relied on their intuition or their “golden gut” to make decisions. For too long, important calls have been based not on data, but on the experience and unaided judgment of the decision-maker. Our research suggests that 40 percent of major decisions … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Thomas H. Davenport | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Management

After 60,000 hours of R&D and more than $10 million in investment, the Innovation Value Institute’s IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF), a state-of-the-art assessment framework designed to help IT organizations maximize their contribution to business value, is fully developed and operational.

What does the launch mean for CIOs and other IT leaders? It means that for the first time, they have an integrated, standardized framework for … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Andrew Agerbak, Stefan Deutscher | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business

In the digital world, data are everywhere. We create them constantly, often without our knowledge or permission, and with the bytes we leave behind, we leak information about our actions, whereabouts and characteristics.

This revolution in sensemaking—in deriving value from data—is having a profound and disruptive effect on everything from supply chains to corporate strategy. In particular, it is generally forcing executives to rethink how they … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Dan Elbert, Doug Palmer, Vikram Mahidhar | Source: Deloitte Review | Subjects: Customer Related, IT / Technology / E-Business

As companies focus on growth and business development, the availability of quality information is crucial for making sound business decisions.

Content: Article | Authors: Alexander Martin, Edgar Simons, Robert Jekel | Source: Kearney | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Management

A small but growing group of business leaders see IT as a way to spur change that prevents a company from peaking, then fading when its revenue growth stalls. They put IT to work to support strategy—to anticipate and respond to customers’ demands, renew their management teams and strengthen the layers of talent they’ll need if they’re to weather the bad times and grow fast … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Gavin Michael, Paul F. Nunes | Source: Accenture | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business

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Let’s talk about the different types of analytics and common places to start with them. I believe the number one reason marketing teams aren’t as data-driven as they should be is because data is intimidating. However, knowledge trumps intimidation. The more you know, the more comfortable you will be to put on that analyst hat.

Content: Article | Author: Joanna Lord | Source: SEOmoz.org | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Marketing / Sales

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Rachel Botsman talks about the power of collaboration and sharing through network technologies, and on how it will transform business, consumerism and the way we live.

Editor’s Note: I think it should be interesting to re-watch this video in 5, 10, 15 years and see how the topic unfolds.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Rachel Botsman | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Economics, IT / Technology / E-Business

Thomas H. Davenport, coauthor of Keeping Up with the Quants, describes the three major stages of analytical thinking.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Thomas H. Davenport | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Management

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Entrepreneur Jim McCarthy on why online innovations succeed — or fail.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Jim McCarthy, Laura W. Geller | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Customer Related, Entrepreneurship, IT / Technology / E-Business | Company: Goldstar Events Inc.