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Three Reasons Why You Need a Tech Consultant

Strategy Driven

You know you’re product inside and out, you’ve got a track record at driving through sales and you’re a great manager. In this blog we take a look at three reasons why you need to get a Technology Consulting Company on board and how they can help you. The only thing you’ll be limited by is your vision and your budget.

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The Four Personas of the Next-Generation CIO

Harvard Business Review

Just as previous technology and business shifts have changed the role of the CIO, the new, more consumer-oriented business models of the social revolution will favor a new breed of business and technology leader. As overall business strategy planning ties closer to IT strategy, four personas of the next-generation CIO will emerge: 1.

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How to Compete When IT Is Abundant

Harvard Business Review

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.

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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. Crucially, the operating model also must define ways of working and behaviors that actually bring your company’s strategy to life.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

Palmisano warned against prioritizing shareholders or other constituents, calling this "a false choice," and explaining that "Long-term management is a serious challenge in a world driven by short-term thinking. Palmisano believes the technology industry requires "a high-performance, in-your-face, speak-your-mind culture." Directness.

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Open Source Software Hits a Strategic Tipping Point

Harvard Business Review

Overall, we found that more than half of our survey respondents have adopted OSS solutions as part of their IT strategy. in their deployed software portfolios, which is a 3 percentage point increase from the current budget year. She focuses on application development, open-source technology, and project and portfolio management.

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Lessons from Honda's Early Adaptive Strategy

Harvard Business Review

My last post talked about how a little-known company , Grace Manufacturing, took a flexible and opportunistic approach to its strategy when its core business faltered. Everything was done seat of the pants and with minimal budget. We all know how this story turns out — today Honda is a dominant player in the U.S.