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Enterprise Thinking

Coaching Tip

Just as enterprise integration and enterprise architecture are used by IT professionals to technicalogically integrate all the tentacles of organizations for greater efficiencies and better outcomes, think of Enterprise Thinking as the leader's mental arsenal to accomplish the same.

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How to Optimally Align IT with Your Business Processes?

Strategy Driven

Structuring business information is also referred to as enterprise architecture. How Does Enterprise Architecture Add Value? The market a company operates in should also be taken into account for enterprise architecture. In order for enterprise architecture to be effective, a company must be agile.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Lean "senseis" (teachers) say strategy deployment, executives as coaches, and front-line problem-solving sustain improvement. BPM missionaries say processes and process knowledge embedded in software, an enterprise architecture, and a central process management organization sustain improvement.

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A Board Director's Perspective on What IT Has to Get Right

Harvard Business Review

Note that the high-profile C-suite executives at firms like Borders, Jessops, and Bank of New England had large IT budgets, but no longer have a company to make more efficient today.). A new component of the IT function must be developed to support this category of work: the Distributed Innovation Group (DIG).

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CMOs and CIOs Need to Get Along to Make Big Data Work

Harvard Business Review

Variations of this Big Data story line are being played out in executive offices around the world, with CMOs and CIOs in the thick of it. To do that, both executives will need to change how they work?and The CIO is becoming a strategic partner that is crucial to developing and executing marketing strategy.”.

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Bridging the Gap Between Marketing and IT

Harvard Business Review

Marketing executives are being tasked with leveraging technology to improve customer experience, drive client growth, and meet loyalty goals. Yet marketing and IT executives often don’t speak the same language or understand each other’s goals or roadmaps. This is why we started creating jointly built roadmaps for projects.