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#17:  "Five Myths of Digital Transformation"

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5 Myths of Digital Transformation

Companies understand that their ability to compete is tied directly to their ability to leverage the very latest technology advances. Fortunately, deploying new technology has never been easier, primarily due to early maturity and cloud delivery.  One approach that is helping companies rapidly pilot and affordably deploy new technologies is ready technology, a new category of information technology (IT). This book explains the ready technology adoption process in detail, enabling companies to exploit new technology immediately and effectively. In this book, the author challenges the traditional "requirements-first/technology-second" approach to technology deployment. Espousing a "technology-first/requirements-second" approach, the author explains how business solutions are "discovered" by deploying―not studying―ready technology. The book covers the latest trends and processes in ready technology. It also describes the characteristics of ready companies and recommends ready technology pilots that should be launched by the following industries: higher education, retail, and healthcare.

Ready Technology: Fast-Tracking New Business Technologies

Despite the exponential growth of computing and communications technology, the inertia of old business technology management practices still drives most investment decisions in this area. Companies spend too much money on new technology, while their business models and processes underutilize the resources they already have. Written in a compelling, conversational manner, Best Practices in Business Technology Management advises those who buy, install, and support all types of computing and communications technology, empowering them to optimize their systems in new and innovative ways.  Divided into six chapters, the book provides insight into the field, discussing decision-making, trends, alignment, optimization, processes, timing, and other areas. It includes practical hands-on advice that explores organization, the challenges of working with people, acquisition and measurement of technology, operational effectiveness, and strategic effectiveness. The best practices presented are not theoretical or untested. Rather, they are the result of trench warfare and real applications. The insights contained in this volume represent what successful companies have done―and continue to do―to optimize the business technology relationship.  A nationally-known business technology veteran, author Stephen J. Andriole has developed a perspective on the optimization of computing and communications technology based on years of experience from government, industry, academia, and the venture capital business. In this book, he demonstrates how those who buy and deploy technology can optimize their technology in a way that saves costs and provides maximum performance.   

Best Practices in Business Technology Management

Due diligence conducted around technology decisions is complex. Done correctly, it has the power to enable outstanding positive outcomes; done poorly, it can wreak havoc on organizations, corporate cultures, and markets.  Technology Due Diligence: Best Practices for Chief Information Officers, Venture Capitalists, and Technology Vendors develops a due diligence framework for anyone resolving technology decisions intended to help their business achieve positive results. This essential book contains actual case studies that incorporate the due diligence methodology to assist chief information officers, venture capitalists, and technology vendors who wrestle with technology acquisitions challenges on a daily basis.

Technology Due Diligence: Best Practices for Chief Information Officers, Venture Capitalists, and Technology Vendors

By and large, cost-effective information technology (IT) management is more about people, personal relationships, and corporate culture than it is about the technology itself. Simply put, IT doesn’t work if you are surrounded by bad people and stupid processes in a deranged corporate culture. IT's All about the People: Technology Management That Overcomes Disaffected People, Stupid Processes, and Deranged Corporate Cultures explains how to achieve dramatic improvements in service and agility by enhancing the people, processes, and culture within your organization. It details the various roles within the technology management process and supplies authoritative insight into the realities of human behavior―including the range of best and worst behaviors from managers, executives, and corporate culture.Industry veteran Stephen J. Andriole explains the reason behind why many business cases fail and includes helpful insights on new governance models, organic transformation, guerilla budgeting, and open source software. Providing a fresh perspective on the old basics of IT management through a twenty-first-century lens, this book arms you with the methods needed to master the soft art of IT management as well as purchasing, deployment, and technological support.

IT's All about the People: Technology Management That Overcomes Disaffected People, Stupid Processes, and Deranged Corporate Cultures

With billions of discussions taking place on a daily basis across the open social universe, millions of individuals - shoppers, consumers, customers, influencers, activists, journalists, competitors - are broadcasting their experiences, attitudes, opinions and actions with corporations and brands. While a significant and growing segment of this commentary represents major, growing risks to the enterprise including threats of lawsuits, boycotts, protests, sabotage, liabilities and extortion, just to name a few. Corporations that strategically identify and manage these threats in real-time, using advanced streaming "big data" detection technology and expert analysis, gain an unprecedented advantage in immediately addressing and mitigating these risks. Avoiding #Fail explores a wide array of these social threats with analysis of over 100 detailed enterprise social risk case studies, serving as an executive guide in how to strategically leverage advanced social intelligence and threat detection to protect the corporation holistically.

Avoiding #FAIL

Based on research conducted at Villanova University’s School of Business, the book describes technology adoption in the 21st century. The innovator/early adopter/early majority/late majority/laggard innovation diffusion model first popularized by Everett Rogers in1962 is unrecognizable today. Even the “rapid prototyping” adoption models of the late 1990s have collapsed. This book presents a technology adoption process that is driven by competitive fear, speed and digital transformation. It is a process that is inexpensive, indiscriminate and completely disconnected from adoption categories or bell curves.

The Innovator’s Imperative: Emerging Technologies for Digital Transformation

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Dr. Steve Andriole is a go-to media source for all things related to the future of technology and business. He teaches strategic technology, innovation and entrepreneurialism at the Villanova School of Business, and his areas of expertise include cloud computing, social media, emerging technology trends, virtual and augmented reality and business technology strategy. Dr. Andriole also serves as an industry and government consultant on all aspects of digital technology and can speak in-depth about the development, application and management of information technology, as well as digital transformation and the adoption of emerging technologies. He is former Director of Cybernetics Technology at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and has founded and co-founded several technology companies. 

Dr. Andriole is a prolific author and has published 35 books and more than 500 articles, monographs, reports and book chapters. Dr. Andriole frequently presents the results of his research at academic and industry conferences and symposia; he also frequently speaks at corporate events, off-sites and strategic planning sessions on technology management, technology trends and digital transformation.

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