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The Executive Checklist: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Spitzer Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution Harvard School of Public Health James M. Bob''s blog entries Atul Gwande David Robertson Dean R. Kerr Jørgen Vig Knudstorp and his leadership team Jeanne W.

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Change the Culture, Change the Game: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

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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The Crowdsourced Performance Review: A book review by Bob Morris

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The Crowdsourced Performance Review: How to Use the Power of Social Recognition to Transform Employee Performance Eric Mosley McGraw-Hill (2013) How and why all organizations need a better model for performance reviews Opinions are divided – sometimes sharply divided – about “the wisdom of crowds.”

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The IT Project That Brought a Bank to Its Knees

Harvard Business Review

Sir Christopher Kelly, a former British senior civil servant, recently produced a damning report , which reviewed the events that led to the £1.5 The factors contributing to the failure cited in the report are ones that we all too frequently have encountered when we have reviewed challenged or failed projects. hedge funds. “It

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Firms Need a Blueprint for Building Their IT Systems

Harvard Business Review

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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3 Ways to Get More Value from Automation - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM PWC’s Strategy&

Harvard Business Review

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. Shift 1: Automate with a product mindset.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

After hearing about its success at another organization, many companies choose just one. For example, several companies embarked on Six Sigma programs after their CEO heard about GE's success with the approach, and many other companies have adopted Lean because of Toyota's success.