...your business. No, this column is about sex in its biological sense — as a dramatic accelerator of adaptive evolution. To understand the significance of sex, compare it to evolution...…
...heads where it was now available to any competitor that had the wit to hire them. Thus was born the non-compete agreement. In the era of the cognitive enterprise, corporate...…
...commissioning their own information technology don’t have to jump through any of the IT Steering Committee’s flaming hoops. There’s another, related reason: The company has to be careful how it...…
...no real company strategy to use in setting priorities, only 20 bosses, each with a priority du jour. Imagine technology being a key competitive differentiator, specifically asked for in requests...…
...only bigger. “Our budget is like your household budget,” is a favorite example, used by executives to explain why the company can’t afford something important. The company budget, though, has...…
...require a committee, although regrettably, many companies rely on committees to handle data governance. Companies that want consistent data create and maintain some sort of glossary (data dictionary or encyclopedia)...…
...that surrounds the subject, businesses outsource when they’ve given up on their own ability to be competent at whatever-it-is. And so, they turn over responsibility for it to another company,...…
...only one exception, company scores have no overlap between size categories: The worst of the best small companies outscored the best of the medium-sized ones, which in turn outscored all...…
...to decide what to eat. PCs seem complicated for a second, more subtle reason: they seem complicated because they simplify tasks that are intrinsically complex. Yes, that’s right. The PC’s...…
...the new company’s executive team see information technology to be more than a way to make the company more effective. You all see it as a strategic enabler that lets...…