Stories about: Exolve

The letter "e" is popular today. Placed before otherwise mundane terms, it can catch attention, create superficial buzz and signal a next-generation idea. So, it seems, goes the thinking behind the notion of the "e-leader." There is a barrage of "e-leadership" approaches being promoted, all of them with the message that leadership in this Internet age has only a faint resemblance to the leadership of yesteryear. Our era does present new challenges for leaders, but in this case, I don't think we need the "e."

Do you like to play poker? Think you understand the rules? Imagine sitting down to your regular Thursday night game and finding that, suddenly, the rules are all different. A flush ain't a flush. Straights are crooked. Three-of-a-kind loses to a solitary ace. For seasoned business executives, with corporate success as your table stakes, the new, technology-driven economy is upending the game you knew and loved. Now that just about everything you know is wrong, how do you manage to do what's right?

Five federal systems integrators have chosen Viador Inc.'s E-Portal Suite as the platform they will use to serve their government customers, Viador announced this week.

Innovation is the heart and soul of the new economy. The question isn't how can you do it once, or even a few times, but how can you do it continuously? In the IT field there is nothing more valuable than a continuous source of technical invention. And there is no more potent a symbol of continuous, groundbreaking innovation than the idea of a skunk works. If you can figure out how to create your own, you have a recipe for competitive and technological advantage.

Dwight Eisenhower may have been the ultimate master planner of the last century. He orchestrated the largest movement of troops and material in history--the D-day invasion--across the English Channel against heavily fortified defenses and succeeded. So what did he have to say about good planning? "Before a battle, planning is everything. But during a battle, planning is useless."

It will happen. Sometime, somewhere in your career, you will find yourself a leader in political hell. In all likelihood, you won't see it coming. It will be more than a simple, transparent office vendetta or confrontation. And although there are an infinite number of variations, it will probably look and feel something like this:

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Edison. Ford. Wright. They are revered as people who have made a difference in the world, and they stand out not just because they dared to think, but because they dared to act. Sometimes they had to go it alone; sometimes they had a cadre of believers to share their vision. Often they stumbled. But in the end, they held tight, persevered and eventually reached their proverbial peaks.

As early as 1993, CIO recognized enterprise value by what we dubbed ROIT-return on investment from information technology. Of the six winners that year, one - Texas Instruments Inc. - had sufficiently consolidated its purchasing activities into a single system to reduce labor costs and shorten product cycle times.