First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Soon most of us will be exchanging holiday gifts and perhaps you’ll be asked what you would like to receive. Why not suggest some business books? In my opinion, whether as a gift from someone else or one you give yourself, these ten are among the essentials, listed in title alpha order: Beyond Performance: How [.].

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Books Execution Enterprise Architecture Christensen 110

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Whenever asked to recommend business books, I immediately inquire, “What is the single greatest challenge that you and your organization now face?” ” Of course, responses vary but over time, these seem to be the ten challenges most frequently cited, followed by the book(s) I think will be most helpful.

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Books Consultative Course Enterprise Architecture 100

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 11, 2011

Change the Culture, Change the Game: The Breakthrough Strategy for Energizing Your Organization and Creating Accountability for Results Roger Connors and Tom Smith Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2011) A comprehensive, cohesive, and cost-effective methodology to achieve breakthrough results In Leading Change, James O’Toole suggests that much (most?)

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Rogers Review Resistance Books 99

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 22, 2011

Army of Entrepreneurs: Create an Engaged and Empowered Workforce for Exceptional Business Growth Jennifer Prosek AMACOM (2011) How to grow great gardeners The title of my review refers to what I believe is Jennifer Prosek’s key point in this book: To paraphrase, Think like a gardener and decide what you want to grow, when and [.].

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Entrepreneur Review Books Reference 85

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why technology should support your organization’s strategy…not the other way around This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

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Review Technology Strategy Books 80

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 22, 2011

Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement William Duggan Columbia University Press (2007) How and why “a modern discipline” can activate “flashes of insight” in a results-driven organization There is much to be said for eliminating waste throughout an enterprise without transforming it completely, at all levels and in all areas.

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Review Books Creativity Organization 80

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 6, 2011

Doing Both: Capturing Today’s Profit and Driving Tomorrow’s Growth Inder Sidhu FT Press/Pearson Organizational transformation is not — repeat not – a zero-sum game One of the most self-defeating mindsets is suggested by the admonition, “You can’t have your cake and eat it too.&#

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Review Books Short-term Enterprise Architecture 75

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2012

Many LinkedIn groups, like The Enterprise Architecture Network and the Project Management Institute (PMI) , organize networking events for their members. I not only researched the company, but also looked to see if I had any shared connections to any of the company's employees. Twitter also proved to be very useful.

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Enterprise Architecture Information Technology Skills Industry 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

A second new component of the IT function should be dedicated to this category of work: the Enterprise Integration Group (EIG). EIG is responsible for enterprise architecture, the center of expertise for simplification and integration methods, process and program management. Participating in Strategy Formulation.

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Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

What we are advocating here is a broader view of architecture ? enterprise architecture ? The CEO is accountable for ensuring that there is an overall enterprise architecture. Nothing could be further from the truth. that has both organizational and technological components.

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Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

BPM missionaries say processes and process knowledge embedded in software, an enterprise architecture, and a central process management organization sustain improvement. Most missionaries of the BPM religion come from a heritage in information technology.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

The discipline of enterprise architecture (EA)—creating and adhering to an overarching plan for building IT systems—has been around for some time. The enterprise architecture must be driven by a customer- and market-oriented view of a constantly changing business environment. But it need not be like this.

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System Enterprise Architecture Agility Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

It’s not about consumer apps being used for work, and it’s not just about enterprise apps taking on more consumer-like characteristics. The enterprise architecture of the future needs to invert traditional thinking. Some call this “consumerization of IT”, but this descriptor mostly misses to the point.

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CIO Information Technology Enterprise Architecture Software 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

There’s still much to learn when it comes to digitizing business processes, and in particular using automation sprints—those smart, fast, and small efforts you use to boost productivity when a change to enterprise architecture isn’t the right step.

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Strategy Content Enterprise Architecture Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

One of the common divides is that the former is focused on adopting the latest technologies, while the latter is focused on governance, security, and enterprise architecture. Yet marketing and IT executives often don’t speak the same language or understand each other’s goals or roadmaps.

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Marketing Enterprise Architecture Technology Project 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

The BIO must understand and translate business strategy into an IT enterprise architecture strategy and help guide technology investments. “At SAP, we have a Business Information Officer (BIO) for each business unit, including SAP Marketing,” says Becher. Learn to drive before you fly. In fact, that’s a recipe for disaster.

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