In “Zone to Win,” Geoffrey Moore suggests that businesses should be focused upon innovations that can do one or more of the following things: Drive a 10x improvement in a performance metric of great importance to the target market Represents a business opportunity that has material size, a minimum of 10% of total enterprise sales…
What is the cure for a creaky datacenter and glacial software development? Reskilling staff as practitioners of cloud software and DevOps. That has been the winning formula for Asurion CIO Daniel Curling, who has spent the past five years steering the provider of device protection services for retailers, wireless carriers and cable TV providers, through…
Executives at CarMax moved to cross-functional teams when it embarked on its transformation strategy four years ago, believing such teams could deliver better results more quickly than the siloed approach the used-car retailer had been taking. To ensure success, CIO Shamim Mohammad says he and his colleagues established how these new teams needed to work:…
Under Armour started out as a wholesale apparel provider and is transforming itself into a digital business that uses data to help customers achieve their fitness goals. Paul Fipps, chief digital officer, and T.J. Graven, senior vice president of Global IT, walk us through the cultural, technical, and business model changes that made their transformation…