The McKinsey Quarterly: An executive take on the top business trends : A McKinsey Global Survey

The McKinsey Quarterly: An executive take on the top business trends : A McKinsey Global Survey
Here it is again. Consistent with the IBM results posted in a previous entrance, this sample of 3470 CEO and other C-level executives conducted by McKinsey Worldwide through similar conclusions: "Innovation (products, services and business models)" and "greater ease of obtaining information and developing knowledge" are the two biggest factors that contribute to the accelerating pace of change in global business environments. This last one is as well the one trend that is perceived as having the biggest impact in profitability of companies.
As mentioned before in this blog, one of the biggest challenges for organizations today consists in combining the fact of global presence and speed of change with the ability to cooperate and communicate among teams inside and outside the main orgnization boundaries.
What the web has developed as Web 2.0 technologies with a great emphasis on social capabilities driven by technology standards, still needs to hit the corporate world.
A very good perspective of how these technologies can impact the corporate world and about the strategic thinking behind it cna befound in this excellent blog entry by John Hagel: SOA versus Web 2.0