Feb 29, 2012
Mobility presumably offers advantages in delivering healthcare, and so investments have been made to improve it. What has been the result? Have the investments returned a significant ROI? What specific innovations have driven down cost, increased access, and improved the quality of healthcare? How has the...
Feb 22, 2012
With Cloud computing bringing disruptive and progressive approaches to business transformation, it would seem naïve to think we could adapt Cloud to traditional Enterprise IT norms. Any such attempts are certainly knee jerk reactions when we don’t know what else to try. So, how does an organization transform its...
Feb 15, 2012
Traditional wisdom claims that working closely with customers will
stimulate innovation but contrarians suggest that working closely
with customers yields the predictable, stifles creativity, and
misdirects resources into trivial innovation. Must we wait for
lightning to strike or can we successfully partner with...
Feb 8, 2012
The old traditional supply chain “pushed products to market.” How achievable would it be to turn this around and make it into a “demand-driven” supply chain where all the supply chain partners were aligned to “pull product to sales?” Regardless of the business environment, a demand-driven supply chain could...
Feb 1, 2012
Today’s tight IT budgets have not slowed the rush to adopt cloud, virtualization, etc. But in our rush to spend money to save it, perhaps we may be overlooking the biggest question of all: “What is most important for Infrastructure and Operations (I & O) Management – technology or the operational excellence of our...