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Do You Have the IT For the Coming Digital Wave?

Harvard Business Review

It requires strong leadership from all senior IT executives, as well as new business acumen. Adapt your governance model according to your digital maturity. They drive innovation and speed up time to market. Despite all the talk of '' shadow IT '', digital transformations that happen without, or despite, IT are a myth.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

Con: Breakthrough innovation may not get greenlit; time-to-market may seem to lag (though I’d argue what’s released is far better aligned with customer needs and more likely to successfully scale). Eriksson, Banfield and Walkingshaw ’s book Product Leadership has a section that has a lot more detail on this topic).

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IT on Steroids: The Benefits (and Risks) of Accelerating Technology

Harvard Business Review

While not as old and not yet as mature as cloud systems, it warrants a closer look. After four years, systems had been tinkered with so much that new product launches became not only prohibitively expensive but also needed a very long time to market. Agile projects have focused on standard, non-critical systems.