Brief Notes on Executive Business Administration EMBA

Dr.  S.  Maurer,  
MBA Professor

Companies that stay prevail beyond [crm] intëgration challenges to create customer-centric systems are rewarded with better support for existing customers and the ability to establish long-lasting,  financially rewarding business relationships.

Former and current government agency CIOs agreed that a brief tenure makes it less likely that a chief information officer [cio] can accomplish agencywide it transformations.

As project-based organisations have started to emerge,  project management is becoming established as both a professional career path and a way of controlling business.

For time you originally start with an estimate [also know as a guess] on how long it may take to reach the stated goal of the project management.  As the project management progresses,  the time estimate becomes more solid as each piece of the project management is examined and a more firm estimate as to how long it'll take to produce the individual pieces.

With a [crm] sales organizations can shorten the sales cycle and increase key sales-performance metrics such as revenue per sales representative,  average order size,  and revenue per customer.

technology travels in 80-year cycles: 40 years to get it to work right,  and a second 40 years for it to impact society.  Where does that put computers? The internet?

it's important to understand that you don't have just one boss as a chief information officer [cio],  though your organizational chart may say so.  In essence,  you report to every senior executive in your enterprise.

The door between the chief information officer [cio] and CFO offices is opening wider,  and the executives are building a path to regular interaction that allows the information technology [it] function to excel in meeting the business' needs,  not simply to comply with regulatory mandates or budgetary strictures.

Historically,  information technology [it] owned the job of negotiating the design of information and technology across the enterprise.  However,  finance is starting to share that responsibility as it focuses on improving accuracy and controls.

Satisfying customers while lowering costs and increasing revenues is essential to your success.  Yet,  given the exacting nature of customer requirements,  it can be a challenging goal to reach.

There are certain skills to have when conducting project management.  it is best to have a team of planners when doing project planning.  Therefore,  it is important to have skills in forming,  leading and facilitating groups.

Access to information,  anywhere,  anytime   -   through wireless networks   -   seems like the next logical step in continued [crm] system improvements,  making the field sales and support teams more productive,  efficient,  and effective.

With so many demands on a cio's time,  coupled with the relatively new nature of the job,  how is performance measured?

project management tasks are usually dependent on prerequisite tasks.  Variability in the performance of the prerequisites can have significant impact on the downstream activity.

The faster project management team members become friends the sooner the project management will be on track for success.