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The Monkey Economic Game for CIOs
Laurie Santos, in a recent remarkable TED Talks “A monkey economy as irrational as ours“, laid out two important biological bias in the way humans are making decision: a loss aversion and thinking in relative terms. To prove this theory she built from scratch a framework of the financial market and make it test by […]
Pattern Based Strategy Continues to Nurrish Debates
March 29, 2010
Here is an interresting article by Devon Enterprise Architects “GartnerSym 2009: Back to the future with pattern-based strategy” around pattern based strategy and its correlation to Sun Tzu and Michael Porter management theory. It will complement the 2 posts “20/20 foresight: The origins of Pattern Based Strategy” and “Pattern Based Strategy: a new hype?” on this […]
CIO Inner Voice – The Top Posts
January 13, 2010
After 1 year of existence, CIO Inner Voice is publishing its top posts. Thank you for all your encouragements, comments and feedback. (…) THE GREAT PROJECT MANAGER SERIE – Several years ago, I have the chance to read Jim Collins’ book – “Good to Great” (G2G), that has changed the way I was approaching performance […]
The CIO’s Nightmare – Part2 – Rapid Quadrants
January 12, 2010
The Value of Enterprise Systems – Targeting an improved performance, businesses continue to spend an incredible amount of money and effort to implement large scale Enterprise Systems. But after few years the expected benefits are not always present and the situation is getting worst. CIOs need then not only to justify but also to fix […]
The CIO’s Nightmare – Part 1
January 8, 2010
The Value of Enterprise Systems – Targeting an improved performance, businesses continue to spend an incredible amount of money and effort to implement large scale Enterprise Systems. But after few years the expected benefits are not always present and the situation is getting worst. CIOs need then not only to justify but also to fix […]
20/20 Foresight: The Origins Of Pattern Based Strategy?
December 15, 2009
Pattern Based Strategy is the new Gartner’s framework to exploit patterns in the marketplace for competitive advantage. Hugh Courtney in 2001 introduced “Strategic Evolution Principles” which in essence could represent the foundations of Pattern Based Strategy. The intention of this post is not to dispute the ownership of a concept but rather to point out […]
The Digital Competitive Advantage Of Organizations
November 11, 2009
Positioning strategically IT within the Enterprise is at the heart of many CIOs concerns. In these turbulent times, it is not uncommon to see IT relegated to its sole cost element. Conversely, strong signals exist to prepare companies for growth. Here is the opportunity for CIOs to reap the benefits from the situation and identify […]
Investment Strategy: Seed or Leverage
October 2, 2009
I always felt that the way companies are looking at their investment portfolio was somewhat missing perspectives. Focusing their needs on the current year, without any red flag mechanism (See “Confronting the Brutal Facts“) showing the limit of their investment strategy. There is a good practice that could enable Enterprise to understand when the tipping […]
Enterprise Investment Portfolio (Part 1) – Improving Performance
July 9, 2009
Looking at Internal Investments as a portfolio put in perspective the way Enterprises are internally investing in changes considering risk and opportunity at a global level rather than at project level. The following classification of investment (introduced in “How to fight “Business Urban Legends”) follows this approach: 1- Improving Performance 2- Sustaining the current Performance […]
How to fight “Business Urban Legends” – Integrate Investment Portfolio to BI
July 6, 2009
Business Urban Legends are everywhere and sit at the heart of each investment decision. Interestingly enough, companies claim their unique needs, culture and business models which make them different from the competition; yet they are prone to follow generic public statements (investment in central ERP has no ROI for instance) in the very heart of […]
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