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Enterprise Thinking

Coaching Tip

A new book, Paid to THINK just released by David and Lorrie Goldsmith, teaches leaders and their teams how to strategize, plan, transform through projects and dramatically enhance their global awareness while outmaneuvering competition. Performing: Leading the charge, empowering others, innovating everywhere, selling continuously.

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

Harvard Business Review

As many companies move from exclusively internal focused R&D to distributed-innovation systems (e.g., A new component of the IT function must be developed to support this category of work: the Distributed Innovation Group (DIG). online idea markets), the center of expertise for innovation support, and analysis across the enterprise.

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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. Website innovation and other digital marketing projects, which require IT staff to accomplish, would be top priorities for marketing.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

BPM missionaries say processes and process knowledge embedded in software, an enterprise architecture, and a central process management organization sustain improvement. Brad Power is a consultant and researcher in process innovation. He is currently conducting research with the Lean Enterprise Institute.