...marketplace advantage, beating the competition … you know, how to grow. Technology leadership can’t happen in these companies because no leadership can happen in these companies. When decisions are rooted...…
...IS Steering Committees are the way to go. IS Steering Committees fail in two circumstances. The first is entirely your fault – if you miss some significant projects, the committee...…
...personal computing about $2.60 per hour. Expressed as a percentage it comes to an overhead cost of 6.5% of the work affected. Here’s a wild guess: personal computing leads to...…
...One number that stood out from a reputable source is that 60% of manufacturing companies are using Generative AI in production for something right now. Not surprisingly, the software companies...…
...company, collaborating with every other part of the company to create value for real, paying, external customers. Make this your default. Defaults, though, are different from absolutes. In some situations...…
When Hewlett Packard and Compaq first announced their plan to merge, one writer commented that both companies had spent several years searching for a strategy. Ain’t that pathetic? I picture...…
...difficult to design. That isn’t where the challenges lie. For example, the answer to how much a company should invest in information technology is pretty simple: Nothing. What companies should...…
...by a KJR subscriber, is paraphrased from an internal memo posted on a well-known company’s intranet just last week: Audience: Employees for whom the company has incurred expenses associated with...…
...itself. Nor are the company’s executives solely and uniquely competent to define company direction. As counterpoint: Two popular approaches to setting strategy are S.W.O.T. analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and it...…
...The external dimensions are: Customers: The people who make buying decisions about what the company has to sell. Product: What the company sells its customers. Price: What the company charges...…
