CIO’s Checklist for the Digital Enterprise

Dateline: January 9, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. It's no secret that going forward, enterprises must be built on digital platforms to enable just about every business function to work at the necessary speed of commerce.  Back in 2000, two colleagues and I published Zero Time: Providing Instant Customer Value to describe the … [Read more...]

Most Impactful Ideas of 2013 According to HBR

Dateline: January 3, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. To kick off our new year, this post is not really about one idea…but about 7.  At the beginning of each year as a way to wrap up the past year, we look for the most insightful 'summary'.  This year, we found just the list at Harvard Business Review's Blog Network by Katherine … [Read more...]

Digital Competency is Critical for Success in the Creative Economy

Forbes contributor, Steve Denning, recently interviewed Haydn Shaughnessy, co-author with Dr. Nick Vitalari of The Elastic Enterprise (mentioned earlier in this blog here).   Denning suggests that: The Elastic Enterprise is one of at least twenty-four books of a management canon that spells out the implications of coping with the emerging Creative Economy of the 21st Century. In effect, a … [Read more...]

Making Business Processes More Social

Dateline: January 18, 2013 Welcome to the Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Friend and colleague Dr. Nick Vitalari, has published a book about his research on the imperative for companies to become Elastic Enterprises.  Companies who do so can respond quickly to customer’s changing needs.  This week’s WRAP builds on Nick's theme.  Harvard Blogger, Mark … [Read more...]