Evolution Not Revolution
"John Logan pulls no
punches about the executive competencies required to be successful." Ann
livermore, President of Services, Hewlett-Packard Company
Evolution Not Revolution is a
directive for business executives and information systems professionals to work together
as a team for the common good of their company. Based upon lessons learned from successful
executives who have blended their technology management skills with their business acumen,
it provides a winning management approach to establishing and executing superior business
strategies by leveraging the capabilities of recently released information technologies to
improve the value of any organization.
Businesses today are under
siege-from within their own walls. Operations executives and IT personnel, while
grudgingly admitting that they work toward the same company-wide goals and objectives,
find themselves increasingly at odds over which strategies and methodologies will achieve
those goals. This confusion leads to wasted effort, lost economic opportunities, and
counterproductive chaos.
Evolution Not Revolution
shows how any company can eliminate these barriers to become a breakthrough success story.
Combining insights from his decades of high-level consulting experience with case
histories of winners and losers in the battle to deploy advanced information systems for
increased market valuation, globally-renowned consultant John Logan explains how you can
benchmark against today's most supercompetitive companies to:
Adopt
"Emagineering" principles to continuously improve your organization's business
processes;
Proactively reinvigorate your
firm by regularly evaluating and adopting new strategies;
Steer away from price-based competition to focus on loyalty and good will-from both
customers and suppliers.
In today's fast-changing
technological environment, teamwork and cooperation are vital for building an exceptional
and valuable organization. Let Evolution Not Revolution show you the necessary steps for
creating a common set of goals and principles for business operations and information
systems management, eliminating internecine squabbling, and working as one to concentrate
on the true challenge of 21st-century business-using latest-and-greatest information
systems technologies to both build market share and increase market valuation.
JOHN R. LOGAN is founder and
chairman of the Aberdeen Group, a consultancy that provides IT market intelligence,
positioning, and market acceleration services to companies in order to identify new market
opportunities, enter those markets successfully, and accelerate the adoption of new
technologies. He is a popular speaker at venues around the world including the MIT Leaders
Forum and Gillette's Global Information Executives Annual Meeting, and a former associate
with the prestigious Cambridge Research Institute.
232 pages