What makes a resource truly strategic – what gives it the capacity to be the basis for a sustained competitive advantage – is not ubiquity but scarcity.
Nicholas Carr
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QUOTE 3: Faith
To trust God in the light is nothing, but to trust him in the dark, that is faith. Charles Spurgeon
QUOTE 2: Purpose
A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance. – Gary Hamel
QUOTE 4: Customer feedback
Watching how customers actually use a product provides much more reliable information than can be gleaned from a verbal interview or a focus group. Clayton M Christensen
Quote 15: Cloud Strategy
A cloud platform isn’t an additional element that you add to your IT portfolio. It resembles full-on IT outsourcing more than IT procurement. Cloud Strategy – A Decisions-Based Approach to Successful Cloud Migration by Gregor Hohpe
QUOTE 12: Conventional operation
In the long run, though, the greatest IT risk facing most companies is more prosaic than a catastrophe. It is, simply, overspending. IT may be a commodity, and its costs may fall rapidly enough to ensure that any new capabilities are quickly shared, but the very fact that it is entwined with so many business…
QUOTE 10: Collaborative support
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. Peter Drucker