Stephen Pierce presents 10 thought provoking questions in his recent report, Planning – Are You Planning To Win By Planning to Fail? Stephens main point in this report is that we are guided in our decisions and perspectives based on the information we look at consistently every day – our business reports. Many reports are [...]
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Comments(0)New Books in The Logical Organization Management Insight Series
I am really excited to announce the release of two new additions to the TLO Management Insight Series:
Leading With SPI
Getting to Cloud
Leading with SPI – Driving Productivity and Profit using Strategic Performance Improvement
Leading with SPI provides a detailed, step-by-step guide to driving better strategic definition and more effective and efficient strategic execution. [...]
Read More..>>Top Priorities for CIO’s in 2010
Gartner, in releasing its 2010 survey of CIO priorities, noted that chief information officers have suffered through a difficult budget tightening period, with budgets essentially cut back to 2005 levels. It appears budgets will stabilize or grow slightly this year, according to Gartner, which surveyed 1,568 CIOs, but it will take some time to overcome [...]
Read More..>>Who Will Be the Winners in 2010?
There are a lot of blogs at the moment about what people think is going to happen in 2010. Regardless of who you believe – one thing is certain. There will be winners and losers, leaders and laggers.
2010 is a year of leading businesses out of the valley and back on the climb to the [...]
BI Now Regarded as Urgent Imperative For Businesses
BI Now Regarded as Urgent For Many Companies If businesses were in doubt before as to whether they could justify the cost and implementation schedule of business intelligence solutions, the recession is certainly making them wish they had taken the jump earlier.
There are many comments as to how the rate of change in business has [...]
Leadership Cited ‘The Killer App’ for 2009
The latest Gartner 2009 CIO Agenda survey of 1500 CIO’s has revealed some surprising and not so surprising results.
Firstly, the not so surprising is that BI has been voted as the top technology for 2009, with the focus of its application on improving business processes. This supports the maturation of business intelligence into the market, [...]
Staying Relevant To Customers A Winning Strategy
With innovation in computer electronics almost a monthly upgrade, differentiation is no longer best focused on the product – but rather on the relevance to the customer.
Read More..>>BI Adds Transparency To Customer Logic
Business Intelligence acts as a foil against customer irrationality. A recent study by McKinsey group identified that customers do not act as rational as businesses expect them to. This has been highlighted in the recent mortgage industry collapse, where banks incorrectly assumed that home owners would be rational in managing their debt. And it wasn’t [...]
Read More..>>Great Time to Reinvent The Core Business
In such times of great instability and uncertainty it is easy to adopt a defensive response or wildly change strategy. However, research has proven that two core activities support business growth not only in times such as these, but at any time.
Staying Close to the Customer – rather than adopting a protective retention strategy around [...]
Small Companies Recognise Need For More Software
New Zealand is largely comprised of small businesses, under 100FTE. But small does not necessarily equate to inefficient and technology adverse as shown by a recent “Innovation for Growth” survey conducted by the Employers and Manufacturers Association Northern and commissioned by software vendor SAP. The survey found that a significant percentage of local firms believe [...]
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