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The Executive Checklist: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Kerr Pagrave/Macmillan (2014) How to replace vague ideas about your career with strategies that will help you achieve your objectives at work and everywhere else Up front, I wish to acknowledge my gratitude to Atul Gwande for the excellent material he provides […]. Bob''s blog entries Atul Gwande David Robertson Dean R.

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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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The IT Project That Brought a Bank to Its Knees

Harvard Business Review

The CEO’s first accountability is to clearly and regularly communicate what constitutes value for the enterprise and the strategic objectives to which all investments must contribute and against which their performance will be measured. What we are advocating here is a broader view of architecture ?

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Followers of Lean, which is based on the Toyota manufacturing approach that made it the leader in automobile quality ( the Toyota Production System ), believe top executives need to break down strategic objectives into implications for process improvements to get everyone moving in the same direction.

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Bridging the Gap Between Marketing and IT

Harvard Business Review

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.