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Out of Office with Limited Access to Email [not]

April 30, 2014

This quaint message, “Out of office with limited access to email,” is reminiscent of a bygone era. It reminds me of an earlier age when I get these automatic e-mail responses from people saying they’re out of the office until such and such a date, and until then they’ll only have limited access to e-mail, […]

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A Process for Strategic Agility [Instead of Strategic Planning]

April 30, 2014

Gone are the days when information technology strategies could be rigid multi-year plans. A company’s goals remain reasonably steady over a two to four year period but the IT strategies employed to accomplish those goals need to be agile; they need to be continuously adjusted. Like setting a ship’s course to reach a distant port, […]

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Massively Multiplayer Online Games as Business Collaboration Platforms

April 30, 2014

One of the fastest growing trends in video games is where multiple players play together. Players are not as interested in competing one-to-one as they are in forming guilds or corporations with other players and working together to accomplish common goals. Collaboration may be more powerful than competition. And these games are setting standards for […]

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Harnessing Feedback Loops to Drive Business Agility

April 30, 2014

You came into work recently and realized a customer or a product or a whole economy had finally lost your trust and you no longer believed it was stable. And you’re right; it isn’t stable. Welcome to the 21st century. So why keep trying to organize and operate your business as if the world was […]

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Five Traits of an Agile Enterprise – Parts 4 & 5

April 30, 2014

A network organization structure and financial fluency are the last two of the five traits of an agile enterprise. Without them, the first three traits will be crippled.

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