My recommendations for how to find these opportunities are based on four observations, the first two about the cloud, one about the way that CIOs and CTOs must improve their management practices, and one about the misunderstood discipline of value-driven Business Process Management.

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What sets them apart is their ability to think outside of Japanese industry's tried and not-so-true practices, and embrace such ideas such as shareholder value and being customer-driven - the management buzzwords in thriving companies worldwide.

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