Chief Executive Officer digital magazine


27 May 2015


IFS CEO Alastair Sorbie has made business agility the central issue of his administration; refocusing his own company and helping customers do the same. In this edition of Chief Executive Officer, we find out what specific qualities are required of management teams and their business software to achieve the level of agility Sorbie advocates.


IFS CEO Alastair Sorbie has made business agility the central issue of his administration; refocusing his own company and helping customers do the same. We find out what specific qualities are required of management teams and their business software to achieve the level of agility Sorbie advocates.

Cathy A Enz, PhD, teaches in an industry-focused business school and continues to find that her students are comparatively more successful in their early career years because they can quickly and easily use their education in a setting they are familiar with. Over time, this understanding of setting becomes valuable, deep knowledge and presents the question of leadership: is it built upon industry experience or something else?

Also in this issue: Chris Beaumont, director of Equity & Grant, and Sean Murphy, director of Marrable Services, speak about the trend towards outsourcing bespoke software solutions; CEO Sergei Levteev discusses how IBA is adapting to new technologies; and Frost & Sullivan's Sarwant Singh and Vijay Narayanan Natrajan of Visionary Innovation Research Group investigate how today's tools
of communication are changing working life.

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