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?)

Rogers 99

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 [.].

Entrepreneur 85

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.

Review 80

Review Technology Strategy Books 80

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

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.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

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 second new component of the IT function should be dedicated to this category of work: the Enterprise Integration Group (EIG).

Enterprise Architecture 9

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

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.

Marketing 8

Marketing Enterprise Architecture Technology Project 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

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.”.

CIO 10

CIO Budgeting Enterprise Architecture Marketing 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

At a time when the customer end of the business model seems to be getting all the attention, executives must not neglect the equally important operations back end. The discipline of enterprise architecture (EA)—creating and adhering to an overarching plan for building IT systems—has been around for some time.

System 8

System Enterprise Architecture Agility Operations 8