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Business Strategy for Software Executives |
January 29, 2007 |
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Leaders of the Next Information RevolutionSoftware vendors must welcome the “Enterprise Architects,” a group which has emerged as the critical link between business and IT architecture.By Allen Brown, The Open Group Famed economist Peter Drucker wrote in 1999 that the focus of the IT revolution has not been on information, but rather on technology - technologies that assisted with data collection, storage, transmission, analysis and presentation, but not the information itself. Drucker correctly predicted that the next information revolution would ask about the meaning of information and its purpose.
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Software VC 2006: Larger & Later
Funding the Next Big ThingBusiness software is moving from simplifying and specializing towards a new wave of innovation. Jonathan Klein of Topline Strategy Group looks closer at what portion of software investment is devoted to new technology innovation and finds evidence of an emerging trend in this week’s post to the SandHill.com Blog on innovation. New Blog: Letter from ChinaVeteran software executive, David Scott Lewis, joins SandHill.com’s list of featured bloggers. As senior VP of Startech Global Corporation, David offers a candid view of business and life in the world’s largest market. The inaugural post reviews the latest China-bashing book and points readers to more reputable sources of information. Publish Your Perspective!The SandHill.com Blog wants your opinions. Send your thoughts on the enterprise software industry to editor@sandhill.com and we’ll publish them in our blog.
News Update: It Takes a PlanetThe EU flexes its muscles, India quantifies its potential, and the U.S. scrambles to remain competitive; plus, Sun makes friends, EMC pledges integration and everyone reports earning. Read these stories and more software news of the week in the latest SandHill.com Software News Summary. SOA Tops List for CIOs in 2007A new McKinsey survey of CIOs finds many are eager to deploy services-oriented architecture (SOA) in outward-facing systems this year. Read more about this and other CIO plans for the year in this article from The McKinsey Quarterly. Poll: A SOX Rollback?A new report calls for a rollback in Sarbanes-Oxley regulations in order to keep the U.S. competitive. Last week, readers gave their opinions on the future of SCO. What do you think? More at SandHill.com:Silicon Valley booming again after 5-year slump. Clarabridge receives $7.2 million. Hyperion buys Decisioneering. Adobe names Mark Garrett executive VP and CFO. Send us your feedback on this newsletter and the SandHill.com site. Parting Thought“In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.” Courtesy of Malcolm Kusher, The Kushner Group |
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