How do innovative companies plan their IT? If Marriott International's approach to IT strategy is any indication, such plans bear little resemblance to how most companies align their IT and business strategies. And they're both more and less complex than what you're used to.
Thomas Edison is credited with saying that genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. If there's a corollary, it's this: creativity is the product of passion and preparation.
The Dallas Business Journal reports that Whole Foods is investigating a leak of proprietary information by the Federal Trade Commission regarding its pursuit of competitor Wild Oats. The FTC filed the documents electronically without redacting them properly, as part of its case to block the merger.
The report on global warming issued in February by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concludes unequivocally that our planet is getting hotter. And, as we approach Earth Day April 22, the evidence that it's all our fault is stronger than ever
Discussions about public-sector CIOs often revolve around how their role differs from that of their private-sector IT peers -- for example, the frustrations of working within government bureaucracies. But a recent study by the US Government Accountability Office found that federal CIOs have much in common with their corporate brethren.
The 2004 US presidential race may well hinge on which party most effectively exploits data mining tools to get out the vote
By assembling a star-studded team of vendors, the IRS thought its $US8 billion modernization project would manage itself. The IRS thought wrong. Now the agency’s ability to collect revenue, conduct audits and go after tax evaders has been severely compromised
By licensing its database research service to business schools worldwide, the Wharton School brand earns high marks
By 2010, the road to corporate success will run right through IT
Many companies are jumping in to Web services before standards emerge. Sure, there are risks.
Here's how some early adopters are managing them
By centralising its state IT budget process, establishing a scoring method and instituting value metrics, Iowa has become a national model for gauging project ROI
Three questions for Larry Bossidy, co-author of Execution: the Discipline of Getting Things Done.
Corporate executives have a hard time executing their business strategies because they just aren't tough enough, says strategic planning expert C Davis Fogg. A US-based consultant to blue-chip companies and the author of <i>Implementing Your Strategic Plan</i> (Amacom, 1999), Fogg says strategic plans flop because executives don't follow through. They fail to lead. They fail to hold their employees - or themselves - accountable for results.
Goodyear's Web consolidation project is part of a corporate strategy to run IT globally, rather than locally.
What You Need to Know About Public and Private Exchanges. The choice isn't just whether to participate in an exchange, but whether to go public, private or a combination of both.