Michael Hugos
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The global economy has a life of its own, it lives in real-time, and we are all part of it. Hello brave new world.
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MICHAEL HUGOS is an author, speaker, award-winning CIO and principal at Center for Systems Innovation [c4si]. He works with clients to find elegant solutions to complex problems with focus in supply chains, business intelligence, and new business ventures. Earlier he spent six years as CIO of a national distribution organization where he developed a suite of supply chain and e-business systems that transformed the company's operations and revenue model. For this work he twice won the CIO 100 Award for resourcefulness and boldness, he won the InformationWeek 500 Award for innovation and the Computerworld Premier 100 Award for career achievement.
He is passionate about agile development methods in IT and business and has mentored managers and development teams in companies such as Microsoft, Starbucks Coffee, Aramark Healthcare and U.S. Navy Medical Logistics Command as well as numerous smaller companies. Google searches on "business agility", "IT agility" and "agile organization" return articles of his (usually) on the first page. He has spoken at conferences and taught seminars in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. He earned his MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and he writes the CIO magazine blog titled “Doing Business in Real Time”. He has authored seven books including the popular Essentials of Supply Chain Management (now going into its 3rd edition), and his newest book - Business in the Cloud: What Every Business Needs to Know about Cloud Computing. He can be reached via his website www.MichaelHugos.com.
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mhugos [at] yahoo [dot] com
Latest Posts by Michael
Harnessing Feedback Loops to Drive Business Agility
October 04, 2011
You came into work recently and realized a customer or a product or a whole economy had finally lost your trust and you no longer believed it was stable. And you’re right; it isn’t stable. Welcome to the 21st century. So why keep trying to organize and operate your business as if the world was...
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