The following articles were written by Booz & Company partners and other senior professionals on key topics in the information technology sector.
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A Path for Success to CIOs: Powerful Position, Clear Mandate
The CIO job is a high profile position, with the potential to make a strategic impact on the business. Two driving factors—mandate and positioning—are hard to control, yet could provide the platform for sustainable CIO success.
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Designing the Transcendent Web: The Power of Web 3.0
Web 3.0—what we call the Transcendent Web—will offer an entirely new level of connectivity, communications, and information on customers, including their attitudes and preferences.
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Standing Up a Cloud-Enabled Marketing Capability
In the new era of the cloud—together with the expected explosion in connected devices and the dynamic applications optimized for them—information can be continuously fed to cloud-enabled “big data” and analytic engines, opening up the promise that all of marketing could migrate to a true real-time Internet marketing model.
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Further Articles
| April 2010 | ||
| Friendly Takeover: The Consumerization of Corporate IT |
CIOs can take one of two paths to accommodate the consumer revolution in corporate IT. They can “bring in” employees under the corporate umbrella, allowing them to use corporate devices for work and non-work... read more > |
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| February 2010 | ||
| High-Performance IT: Achieving Sustainable Returns on IT Investment |
There is a better strategy for reducing IT operational costs that will not diminish a company’s ability to differentiate itself by the technology initiatives it embraces... read more > |
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| December 2009 | ||
| Winning in Retail IT: IT Efficiency and Effectiveness Strategies for the Retail CIO |
Competitive pressures in the retail sector are increasing, and all retailers are looking for ways to improve their bottom lines. Success in the long term will depend on whether they can keep controlling costs while enticing consumers to stay loyal to the products and services they offer... read more > |
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| November 2009 | ||
| Does IT Structure Really Matter? |
Large corporations have long struggled to make their IT organizations more effective and more adaptable, often by reorganizing the IT... read more > |
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| June 2009 | ||
| Building Value through Enterprise Architecture: A Global Study | To determine how much value Enterprise Architecture can contribute to the business, Booz & Company recently surveyed executives across a mix of financial services and government organisations... read more > | |
| May 2009 | ||
| ERP at Risk: Poor Support Means Poor Returns | Despite the legendary difficulty of implementing ERP systems, these tools offer companies distinct advantages: They provide a way to integrate and share critical information across various business functions... read more > | |
| April 2009 | ||
| Flex IT Cost, and Drive Business Value: A Memo to the Chief Information Officer |
Traditional IT cost reduction methods alone are not powerful or sustainable enough to respond to this recession. CIOs also need to address the structural components of the IT cost base and align IT more closely to the business by creating more flexible and adaptive cost structures... read more > |
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| February 2009 | ||
| Keeping the Data Center Competitive |
Cost and capacity pressures on the corporate data center are mounting. Increasing computing power demands, poor asset utilization,... read more > |
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| December 2008 | ||
| Where's the Power in Your IT Organization? |
As information technology (IT) becomes ever more integral to the business of companies in all industries, IT executives are called on to perform many varied and increasingly demanding roles... read more > |
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| December 2008 | ||
| Mind the Gap: Finding Where IT Skills Fall Short in Financial Services |
Recently, a global bank offshored a significant part of its IT development and maintenance functions. The initiative was expected to save up to 30 percent of IT operating costs... read more > |
