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| Kenneth Moskowitz - Articles |
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| Technology Strategy: Behavior and Perspective |
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| (by Kenneth Moskowitz, Harris Kern - May 2, 2005) |
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This article discusses strategic thinking and presents it not as a once a year process or a road to a document, but rather as a perspective that can be developed and taught. It is a behavior that can be learned and must be reinforced at all levels of the organization. “The ability to connect one’s job to a larger mission is not primarily a matter of competence, work ethic or other such traits that good workers naturally possess. Instead, the job-mission connection comes about through communication that starts at the executive level and resonates throughout the ranks.”
Strategic thinking stresses enterprise points-of-view over, seat-of-the-pants, silo thinking. An interesting example is acquisition planning and its attendant due-diligence. Enterprise acquisition strategy may require integration of technology, emphasize economies-of-scale, require product integration, marketing integration, supply chain integration etc. It may require consolidation or complete independence of businesses or anywhere in between. IT needs to be part of every due-diligence effort and needs to budget and plan accordingly. While it is unlikely that technology becomes a deal-breaker, it can happen. Appropriate due-diligence that incorporates integration planning avoids the untenable situation of building “islands of automation” through short-term thinking. The result is an expensive and non-competitive enterprise with little ability to react to its marketplace.
Read the full article at the Enterprise Computing Institute website. |
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