The AMR Research Book Series is designed to provide operations and IT professionals with a sense of mission and tactical advice to use in the real world through themes that affect our planet. AMR Research has worked with companies for 20 years to study how information technology is applied to business and the supply chain. The books in this series are authored and championed by our industry analysts and reflect their extensive knowledge and expertise, providing you and your organization with research and advice that matter.
2017: The End of IT as We Know It
It’s this simple: people, processes, and technology are the three basic elements that make up any company, and how they work together defines how successful a company is or can be. For far too long, these elements haven’t worked together as effectively as they should. Oftentimes, they’re at odds. But today’s globally integrated world demands more, particularly of IT.
Over the next 10 years, the office of the CIO will play an increasingly vital role in carrying out the objectives of the business. As we head toward 2017, the lines between technology and the business it supports continue to blur. In 2017, the applications will be the business processes, and companies need to start preparing now for the future.
2017: The End of IT as We Know It examines the current state of IT, where it’s heading, and what it needs to do to get there. This is the definitive guide for helping today’s company become the performance-driven leader of tomorrow.
Risk! Navigating an Uncertain World
Companies have faced numerous compliance requirements over the years, causing them to jump through hoops when a new one comes along. The most visible of these hoops was the public company reporting requirements contained in the sweeping federal legislation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), but this certainly wasn’t the only one. A search on compliance in the AMR Research archives reveals more than 1,500 pieces of research going back nearly 11 years, with the first mention of SOX not until November 2002. The difference between the other initiatives and SOX, though, is that while only five years have passed, it has caused what seems to be a lifetime of pain and effort for many companies.
While the initial response was panic, we here at AMR Research, in discussions with some of our more forward-thinking clients, have found a better way to deal with compliance and risk. The specter of increasing regulations, whether legislative, customer, or policy driven, demands a broader perspective on how best to master these requirements, not be a slave to them. What if compliance—or any risk, really—was turned into opportunity instead?
Remember: risk is at the heart of opportunity. Risk! Navigating an Uncertain World reveals how to make it work for you.
The Future of Enterprise Applications
Enterprise applications have become much more than just software. In addition to supporting most commercial transactions, they are also the primary source of business data, vital to regulatory compliance, and one of the most valuable assets to a company.
Since the early 1980s, when vendors began to build integrated sets of departmental applications on a central database, hundreds of thousands have been sold and deployed around the world. This success has turned the enterprise application market into a major industry, with enterprise applications representing the heart of most companies’ IT strategies.
AMR Research recognizes how important these decisions have become to businesses and how difficult it can be to understand the highly dynamic enterprise application landscape. Armed with the largest team of analysts covering these applications, The Future of Enterprise Applications assembles their best thinking on the major trends and influences in the industry.
Supply Chain Saves the World
Making money and saving the world at the same time is the next frontier. The supply chain revolution is making all of this possible—and profitable.
Drawing on two decades of analysis, AMR Research shares this opportunity for supply chain and technology professionals to make a difference for their companies and for the world.
In Supply Chain Saves the World, which is based on research carried out over several years, AMR Research looks at the mechanics of the supply chain revolution
that is making all of this possible. We have been working with manufacturers and retailers for 20 years to study how information technology is applied to business and the supply chain.
In this time we have seen our clients wrestle with issues like globalization, environmental compliance, and risk management in their business and supply chain strategies.
In response, we have broken down the process and technology components of these strategies to understand where and how investment makes sense.
This book presents this research at a strategic and practitioner level.
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