Stephen J. Andriole

At Villanova University, there are several courses that focus on the role that technology plays in business. At the graduate level, it is required that students develop business...

This paper focuses on the development of a business technology strategy for a large global specialty chemicals company. The requirement was to develop a strategy that aligned...

Entel1 produces information, data and knowledge, while supporting the energy industry. It sells this content to governments, universities, companies and non-government...

RealProp1 is a large real estate and mortgage brokerage that’s at the forefront of the emerging digital real estate industry. For many years, the company maintained an in-house...

This paper focuses on the development of a business technology strategy for an energy management company. EnDis1 manages the distribution of electric power to a specific...

Due diligence conducted around technology decisions is complex. Done correctly, it has the power to enable outstanding positive outcomes; done poorly, it can wreak havoc on...

As suggested in the preface, due diligence is a process designed to reduce uncertainty and increase the likelihood of productive investments. The focus here is on technology due...

This chapter looks at the range of investment targets ranging all the way from software applications to communications networks to new advanced technologies like Web 2.0 and Web...

Regardless of one’s investment perspective, it is essential to understand business technology trends. Some companies assign large teams to track business technology trends to...

This is a case study in venture investing. ThinAirApps (TAA) created, developed, and sold wireless middleware software products and services. Founded in July 1999, the company...

This is a case of enterprise investing in a specific technology to improve the way its employees communicate and transact business with their customers. The company involved was...

This chapter describes the due diligence that Safeguard conducted prior to its lead investment. In 1999, the ICP/broadband services marketplace was explosive. The availability of...

This is a case of enterprise investing in a specific technology—Radio frequency identification (RFID)—in an effort to add another technology-based service to, in this case...

This is an example of an investment in a new technology service. LiquidHub, Inc., assessed the market and its own service capabilities and decided to make an investment in...

This is an example of venture investing in an e-mail trust solution developed by Postiva, a company that provided “e-mail trust solutions” and also had a complementary line of...

This is an example of investing in a product and service by a company—Tech- VestCo—that planned to increase its offerings to the larger business technology community. In this...

This is an example of enterprise investing in a specific technology—wireless communications technology—in an effort to provide access to network and core applications to...

There are several approaches, methods, and tools that will enhance the technology due diligence process. Three will be discussed here: • Technology trends analysis methodology •...

Prudential Fox & Roach Realtors, an independently owned and operated member of the Prudential Real Estate Affiliate, Inc., is the fourth-largest provider of real estate services...

Prudential Fox & Roach Realtors, an independently owned and operated member of the Prudential Real Estate Affiliate, Inc., is the fourth-largest provider of real estate services...

The 2nd Digital Revolution communicates the essence of business technology management in ways that are seldom discussed in public. This is a no-nonsense look at how to optimize a...

All conversations have participants. In this case, they include all of the decision makers that directly or indirectly influence the nature and direction of the business...

If you don’t want to read this whole chapter, here’s the essence of the following conversation. But if I’m going to practice what I preach, I have to give you an overview of the...

So what do we have here? This conversation will focus on: Collaboration and all of its flavors, including supply chain management, personalization, customization, optimization...

This is a monster chapter, with tons of stuff and just enough jargon to make you angry – even if you’re a technologist. The challenge here is to focus on the important issues and...

Not too many controversial topics here. Here are the turf topics we’ll discuss: • Figure out how to neutralize the politics around turf: I have no magic here … it’s been going on...

Here’s what we’ll discuss here: • Measurement – or do you know where your computers, processes and skeletons are? Without benchmark data it’s impossible to converge anything...

What do we have here? We’re going to the other side, to where civilized men and women seldom venture, to where the people who live and work among us are exposed. Here’s the...

We’ve been through a lot during just the past few years. Y2K, e-business frenzy, free capital, dot.bombs, corporate scandals, integration technology - and we’re still standing....