The Trust Channel

The Postal Service can continue to evolve and operate more like a private-sector business.” ~ Megan J. Brennan, New Postmaster’s Goal: Act Like Private Sector, WSJ.com Trust – Postal Service’s Greatest Asset For centuries postal services in every country across the globe have aimed to serve the people by being the trusted guardians of the

Innovation vs. Automation: Digital Business Model

It’s not enough to make a difference on product quality or delivery readiness or production scale. It’s important to innovate in areas where our competition does not act. ~ CEO, IBM Global CEO Report Innovation in Business Models Innovation in business model drives the creation of new markets and/or increases existing ones. Companies like Apple,

ReEvolution of IT: Why CIOs should Own Digital Future

As products evolve to contain more and more digital components, the skills, experiences and best practices of IT become crucial for success of product development in a digital world. by Patrick Meehan and Tomas Nielsen Owning the Digital Future I remember when this IBM commercial first came out in mid 2000’s.  I was very excited about

Internet of Things: An opportunity to innovate H2M | M2H | M2M Communications

  “Today’s hyper-competitive business climate requires flexible, configurable billing solutions that can handle a wide-variety of consumption and subscription-based business models – and the ability to change them, quickly and without IT intervention.” Andrew M. Dailey, MGI Research H2M Com Programming in the 1990s My first experience of programming was in Fortran (Formula Translating System)

Cloud Computing: Why Strategic Planning is imperative for CIOs

Banks, insurers, universities, hospitals, retailers and government agencies as well as their IT service providers are rapidly transforming into ‘digital businesses’ based on the four converging forces: social, mobile, cloud and information. ~Gartner, Feb. 2014 Cloud Cloud, simply, is a commune of scalable IT infrastructure (hardware and software) that allows multiple users access to storage

Strategic Planning: Why Boeing wants to do it like #AppleLive

“Rather than take on expensive, gargantuan projects like the 787 Dreamliner, which CEO Jim McNerney characterized as ‘moon shots,’ he said he wants Boeing ‘to be more like Apple’ with its carefully planned development strategies on successful product launches.”~ The Street  Start At The Top Apple has traditionally used “stories” to communicate Mission and Vision statements

Team Based Strategic Planning Process

  Strategic Planning Process that incorporates both strategy and business planning processes. The Bottom Up | Top Down Approach can be attributed to “Team Based Planning” by C. Davis Fogg. I have modified the process to provide both an alignment with strategic solutions development and digital/IT roadmap planning.

Integrated Business Planning Process

  Integrated Business Planning Process: Provides a good summary of all Business Planning, Strategic Planning and Operational Planning. This work is entirely contributed to Charles P. Sitkin in affiliation with Carnegie Mellon University.