Integrating business and technology

Executives are actively rethinking their business strategies, searching for innovative ways to spur sustainable growth. Perhaps the answer lies not in the strategy itself, but rather in how it is developed.

Just when it matters most, business has fallen into a crisis of measurement. Here are seven questions that can help resolve the problem.

Bayer selected and implemented a new global Electronic Data Capture (EDC) system for collecting and managing trial data electronically, replacing a localized, in-house system.

Bharti Tele-Ventures, India's largest private telecommunications company, partnering with IBM, used adaptive business processes and flexible technologies to implement transformational outsourcing and create an on demand telecom provider.

The Georgia Center for Nonprofits built a common indirect procurement platform based on a sharedservices model, reducing explicit indirect procurement costs up to 30% and administrative costs up to 50%.

Lean Sigma, a relatively well-known approach for achieving operational excellence, can do more than simply improve processes. It can help CEOs improve an organization's ability to innovate.

Victoria Police partnered with Motorola and IBM to roll out an end-to-end network that gives users fast, secure access to numerous state databases for gathering details on persons, vehicles and drivers from mobile terminals.