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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., P&G''s Connect and Develop ) to increase velocity and quality of their new product introductions, the IT infrastructure support for this business process change is critical. Improving Operational Efficiency.

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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. If the marketing team is developing a strategy to advance client needs, the IT team helps prioritize those needs based on the requirements of the infrastructure.

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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. What's more, the company helped develop Hammer's PEMM concept and is now training Lean managers.