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Should strategy or technology drive transformation?

By Paula Smith on 21 July 2015

When companies first started talking about the cloud revolution and the third platform, the conversation changed from 'technology enabling transformation' to 'technology driving transformation'. But who is right? Do you start with a strategy or with a technology?

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Air Sandwich Anyone? Closing the gaps between strategy and delivery.

By Jamie West on 28 November 2013

In my few years back working in NZ, I've encountered a common theme that repeatedly surfaces, across most sectors and industries.  It’s something that I think plays on the minds of all CEOs, Strategy Leads and CIOs. I'm referring to the giant chasm that divides strategy and delivery - or as we call it here at Optimation, the air sandwich.  Put in other words, our country’s businesses seem to be guilty of devising business vision, goals and strategies, then haphazardly launching straight into projects that don't deliver what was expected, or worse, fail to deliver at all.

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