Entries Tagged as 'Business Strategy'
by Mark P. McDonald | November 1, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Throughout much of the market turmoil the news, discussion, uncertainty and doubt have all been aimed at one audience – traders. Traders are those who earn their income from moving money across financial markets or follow the financial markets. Traders make money when there is turbulence as change and volatility move stock prices generating ‘market [...]
Category: Economy Leadership Management Strategy Tags: Business Leadership, Business Management, Business Strategy, Economy, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | October 20, 2011 | 3 Comments
Today I have delivered a talk at Gartner Symposium in Orlando on the subject of Digitization: the next wave. Here are a few thoughts: The definition of digitization is changing and creating new ways of thinking about business, innovation and opportunity. The standard and first definition of digitization centers on the representation of things with [...]
Category: 2012 Strategy Technology Tags: Business Strategy, digitization, IT strategy, Technology, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | September 30, 2011 | 1 Comment
Escape Velocity by Geoffrey Moore addresses the fundamental issue of driving deep innovation and value realization in your company not by some new silver bullet but by the hard work required to free your company’s future from its past. Moore’s central premise in this well written, actionable and highly recommended book, is that companies have [...]
Category: Book Review Innovation Leadership Management marketing Strategic planning Tags: Book Review, Business Strategy, Marketing, Strategy and Planning, Technology Leadership, Tools
by Mark P. McDonald | August 17, 2011 | 2 Comments
I was on a conference call the other day discussing how we were going to handle a selection process. The discussion was heated, as there were multiple good ways to handle the process. One of the participants however was adamant about only one thing, “what ever we do, the process has to be transparent. I [...]
Category: Leadership Management Strategy Tags: Business Management, Business Strategy
by Mark P. McDonald | August 15, 2011 | 1 Comment
Every organization knows about its front office that generates revenue and its back office that operates those processes. Few recognize the capabilities within the space between – the middle office – capabilities that determine your effectiveness and comparative advantage. Executives know how to improve the performance of their front and back office processes. They change [...]
Category: CIO Innovation Leadership Management Strategic planning Strategy Tags: Business Strategy, IT strategy, mid-office, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | August 5, 2011 | Submit a Comment
An accretive leader is one that allows individual changes to build up, one on top of the other, with little consideration of the cumulative effect of change on the firms. Not every leader is an accretive leader but every organization faces the challenge of managing accretive change. Management systems have implicit incentives for accretive change [...]
Category: Economy Innovation IT Governance Leadership Lean Thinking Management Technology Uncategorized Tags: Business Leadership, Business Strategy, CIO strategy, Leadership, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | August 1, 2011 | 10 Comments
Leaders are responsible for raising performance through having a vision and creating successful change. When this happens, leaders are praised and rewarded for creating new processes, products and organizational capability. Leaders are highlighted for the change they created and the value inherent in the ‘more’ their company is all about. Change is vital to an [...]
Category: Economy Innovation IT Governance Leadership Lean Thinking Management Technology Tags: Business Leadership, Business Strategy, CIO strategy, Leadership, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | July 25, 2011 | 2 Comments
People were astounded when Apple released the iPad 2 within a year of the iPad’s debut. They are further confused as the new iPhone 5 is expected and could be accompanied by a free iPhone – the 3GS. There is even talk of an iPad 3 before the year is out. What is going on [...]
Category: Innovation marketing Tags: Business Strategy, consumer, Consumerization of IT, iPad, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | July 5, 2011 | 2 Comments
It is time to begin formulating the team that will develop the 2012 Business Strategy. You may have already held preliminary discussions; the heavy lifting of strategy formulation and execution planning is just beginning. While preliminary meetings involve discussing high-level goals, like grow by 20%, the next round of strategy work requires a comprehensive view [...]
Category: 2012 CFO CIO Leadership Management Strategic planning Strategy Tags: 2012 planning, Business Strategy, IT and Business, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | June 19, 2011 | 2 Comments
The term mid-office refers the collection of semi-structured activities, processes and decisions that exist between your formal front and back office processes. These are the processes and activities that shape your value proposition, operating efficiency and business effectiveness. While mid-office processes can be difficult to name and define, that does not mean that they are [...]
Category: Innovation Management mid-office Strategic planning Strategy Tags: Business Leadership, Business Management, Business Strategy, Management, mid-office, Strategy, Strategy and Planning
