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7 Digital Strategies of Top-Performing Companies

January 31, 2012
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Print PDF Growing a multimillion dollar corporation during a recession is no small feat and it’s no accident. Companies that are swimming against the economic tide are doing things differently than those that are treading water, or worse, drowning. So, what exactly separates the best from the rest? In a world of tech-empowered consumers and employees, companies that are bucking the economic trend exhibit key behaviors that allow them to exploit technology and weave it ...

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Outside-In IT: A Preview of PwC’s Digital IQ Results

January 4, 2012
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Print PDF Only a few years ago corporations issued corporate-sanctioned devices to employees like the army issues uniforms to new recruits. They sourced them, dispensed them and controlled how they were used. They also called the shots in how they communicated with customers. Back in the day, corporations were in charge inside and outside the firewall. That was then and this is now. Innovation Infiltrating the Enterprise We’re in a new era, the consumerization of ...

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2011 CIO Agenda – A. M. Best’s BestDay Podcast

January 20, 2011
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Print PDF 2011 CIO Agenda Podcast Transcript Listen to the podcast or read the summary below. The interview was conducted by Best Review Editor Lynna Goch. LYNNA: Chris is here today to talk about the results of a survey conducted with 724 senior business and IT executives from large companies that he wrote about in his article Cloudy Future (requires free subscription) that appears in January’s issue of Best’s Review. So Chris, in your article ...

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What is Your Internet of Things?

November 18, 2010
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Print PDF I’ve seen the number 4.6 billion pop up a few times lately. Any ideas? It’s the approximate number of mobile phones globally which is about 69% of the worlds population. It’s the explosion of phones, particularly smart phones that are internet addressable, that is pushing the limits of the internet itself. It’s also these devices that are generating massive amounts of data.  For more mind blowing statistics on the explosion of data all ...

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IT Considerations for Reverse Mergers

September 13, 2010
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Print PDF Organizations tend to grow their customers, markets and products through some combination of organic efforts and acquisitions.  Sometimes the rates and scale of the growth meets expectations, other times they don’t.  When the full value from investments can’t be realized, some organizations have turned to reverse mergers for parts of their business they believe to be very valuable, but where growth is stunted for some reason.  Cadbury’s reverse merger of the Americas beverages ...

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Inside the Huddle: Connecting Strategy with Execution

July 23, 2010
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Co-authored with John Sviokla

We’ve hit the point in the summer when football training camps are almost upon us—one of our favorite times of the year. Football, in our opinion, more than other American sports, exemplifies the three dynamics we at Diamond use in assessing a company’s “Digital IQ”—Strategy, Mobilization, and Execution…...

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13 Barriers to Reuse

June 22, 2010
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Print PDF MIT Center for Information Systems Research held its 2010 summer session last week.  Wednesday’s session covered innovation and agility – as part of the agility discussion CISR shared some great research on reuse.  Peter Weill, the Center’s chairman led an interactive discussion to uncover the reasons that companies don’t reuse.  For the purposes of this discussion, reuse was defined as using something that already exists – to include code reuse, processes, data, designs, ...

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Why Business Capabilities Matter

May 13, 2010
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Print PDF Guest post by David Baker Diamond’s Chief Architect Business and IT alignment is the holy grail of strategic planning – at least for the CIO. Imagine a world in which each and every activity over the next three years guarantees that the organization moves closer to its goals and objectives.  To achieve this requires that the underlying people, processes and technologies take you in the right direction on every project – simple in ...

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New CIO? Assess IT with 5 Questions

May 10, 2010
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Print PDF As a new CIO, you have two choices for learning about your organization.  You can “hit the road” and meet with most or all of the leaders, stakeholders and a sampling of others to get a broad picture or along with the meeting and greeting you can focus your efforts on key functions and relationships to ferret out the problems.  A broad approach will uncover issues but won’t allow you enough time to ...

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Governance, Analytics and Standards

May 6, 2010
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Print PDF Today was the first day of MIT’s Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) sponsors board meeting. CISR is a research program funded by 70+ companies that looks into important strategic management issues facing IT and its leaders. While the center’s name has “information systems” in its name, the groundbreaking research it produces is more about the planning, governance, investment, risk and innovation approaches that add the most to businesses, rather than software or ...

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