IT Foresight Archive
| 11-29-10 The Global Innovation 1000: How the Top Innovators Keep Winning Succeeding at innovation requires two key elements: a focused set of innovation capabilities that is carefully tuned to a company’s innovation strategy, and the ability to align the innovation strategy with overall corporate strategy. This year’s Global Innovation 1000 reveals the capabilities best suited for companies pursuing each of three innovation strategies, whether they are need seekers, market readers, or technology drivers. Companies that achieve this focus, and then succeed in aligning their R&D efforts with overall strategy, we found, outperform their industry peers in terms of both profit margins and market capitalization growth.read more > |
| 10-27-10 Lead Now or Get out of the Way: IT’s Role in a Web 2.0 World IT departments are losing control over the process by which new consumer-oriented Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, social networks, and wikis are entering the enterprise. As a result, maintenance headaches are rising, as is the threat of security breaches and loss of intellectual property. CIOs must regain control over these technologies, by leading their companies in a concerted effort to find the business value in them, by empowering users to make productive use of them, and by encouraging their companies in developing a systematic competency in their use.download (319kb, PDF) > |
| 10-27-10 Think Big, Act Smart: Reducing Uncertainty in Transformational Change Thanks to unacceptable costs, time, and risks, the era of the truly large-scale strategic transformation is over. Instead, companies must find more flexible and agile approaches to transformation that enable them to continue to “think big” while “acting smart” by breaking these projects up into individual steps that can be reviewed regularly. Success requires that every step in the transformation process be guided by a strong and complete business case, and that a governance body be formed with the authority to make go/no-go decisions at every step in the process.download (672kb, PDF) > |
| 9-28-10 The Velocity of Change: An Interview with Pfizer CIO Jeffrey Keisling Following the merger of Pfizer and Wyeth, Jeffrey Keisling, Wyeth's highly regarded CIO, took the same position at Pfizer. In this exclusive interview with Booz & Company partner Anu Gupta, Keisling discusses his goals for creating IT synergies through the merger, the need for transparency in all of IT’s dealings with Pfizer’s many business units, and Pfizer’s plans to make greater use of technologies such as cloud computing, mobile computing, and social media to achieve its business goals. Keisling believes that IT's role in Pfizer’s pursuit of business value becomes more important by the day: "We need to move very, very quickly in finding the opportunities in our growth markets around the world," he says, "and to find ways that we can provide better information and better delivery of medicine to all our customers." watch the video > |
| 9-28-10 Healthy Links: Bringing Interoperability to Healthcare Delivery To date, the creation of fully functional electronic healthcare systems that include both electronic medical records and hospital information systems has been hindered by the lack of an integrated solution to storing and sharing critical patient data. That’s why a fully interoperable enterprise integration solution (EIS) is needed to address this challenge by ensuring that the data can be seamlessly exchanged across different systems and applications, making it available to the right individual in the right place and at the right time. Healthcare organizations must comprehensively document their needs and thoroughly vet EIS vendors and available solutions if they are to make the most of their considerable investments.download (432kb, PDF) > |
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