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How to map people performance to financial performance
The link is clear in strategy-driven initiatives.
04/04/18
Strategic opportunities are waiting to be found. Are you ready?
Five categories of opportunities you can find and exploit to generate strategic outcomes.
03/01/18
Starting with prototyping? Wait
By jumping straight into prototyping, you reduce or eliminate strategic outcomes.
01/30/18
Digital initiatives should exploit innovation opportunities available in encapsulated processes
It’s not just the processes surrounding tech; processes present in tech too offer opportunities to make strategic contributions.
11/09/17
When UI is about experience – and when it is not
The same objectives driving 'higher' level steps of strategy translation must drive all steps right until the end. The steps include the task of designing the user interface (UI) architecture.
10/27/17
3 must-ask questions while evaluating vendors for digital initiatives
Capabilities that determine whether or not your initiative will have strategic potential.
09/25/17
Design in digital initiatives
In today’s digital projects, boundaries span multiple processes that encompass multiple business elements, particularly tech elements. Have we made the needed changes to our design approach?
06/01/17
Digital success: 3 areas where you need to broaden your horizons
Organizations such as Allianz look far beyond the boundaries that defined traditional tech projects
04/28/17
Software wildcatting: 4 ways organizations launch wrong projects
Oil companies no longer drill in our backyards, hoping to strike oil. How come software practice is still stuck in the past?
03/30/17
Can you say what strategic outcomes your project is targeting?
To make a strategic contribution to the organization, your technology project must be specific about three categories of business outcomes.
02/28/17
Should you do program synergy differently in the digital era?
Wherever multiple projects are involved, synergy becomes a useful goal. Synergy is about executing projects in such a way that they will together eventually generate business outcomes greater than the sum of the outcomes from their...
01/30/17
3 business risks you want to avoid when investing in tech
Wrong tech, recurrence and degradation are expensive mistakes regardless of whether you are considering digital or traditional tech.
12/20/16
What’s in your architecture?
Why the architecture has far-reaching effects and how to get it right before you invest in implementing it
11/29/16
3 signs your next project could be nonstrategic
Address these issues if tech projects must make strategic contributions.
10/28/16
How to execute tech projects like business projects
We need to put tech projects in the business context. Here are the three steps for doing that.
09/23/16
Why the BT era is more important than the digital era
Technologies and "eras" change. The only constant is the need for specific business outcomes.
08/24/16
Business or tech: Who should do strategy translation?
Should business or tech translate strategy? Three reasons why a less obvious choice might be better.
07/29/16
How to avoid a digital strategy failure
Are executives using the right approach to devise a digital strategy that would guide them to invest in the right initiatives?
06/27/16
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