The DoD defines the information environment as the “aggregate of social, cultural, linguistic, psychological, technical, and physical factors that affect how humans and automated systems derive ...

Small-business owners use their personal ideas to launch their businesses. Then, they use their judgment and input from people they trust to grow their companies. However, as businesses grow, owners ...

Maybe you’re not at war but your company requires competitive strategy to survive. These key principles rely on using information to your advantage. The foundation of your strategy is information, ...

Things seem to be going well until the CEO asks, “Who are our most profitable customers across the business and which channels do they prefer?” Although the new systems have a lot of information – ...

The tools, industry-specific data models and blueprints are designed to help businesses take the first step toward developing a unified approach to identifying, accessing and using information as a ...

A practitioner article published in the SMS Explorer, "AI Will Help Formulate Strategy, But Should Never Finish It," by Michael Olenick challenges a growing assumption in the business world: that ...

Continual innovation of digital products and platforms requires strategic alignment of information technology to ensure a firm's success. Today, successful organizations rely on leadership from ...

What is IT strategy (information technology strategy)? IT strategy (information technology strategy) is a comprehensive plan that outlines how technology should be used to meet IT and business goals.

A version of this article appeared in the Autumn 2019 issue of strategy+business. The entire ethos of the Spanish hotel chain Ilunion is built on innovation, and its most powerful tool for solving ...

In last month’s column, I introduced the concept of intelligent information — the intelligent management of information as a critical (although intangible) corporate asset. With intelligent ...

The phrase "strategic management" is sometimes used as a synonym for "strategy," but the two terms are not actually the same. A company's strategy is its plan for victory in competition with other ...