Innovation is often a way of not discussing transformation, a way of keeping enterprise and economic transformation somehow in the hands of groups who are excluded from the levers of change.

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Personal transformation before enterprise or organizational change.

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Enterprise systems must undergo a radical transformation to meet the oncoming tsunami of technology and design changes for CEM.

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But the strategic CIO will use the next several months to collaborate with the CEO in upgrading that tech-centric plan into a broader vision for a sweeping business transformation of the entire enterprise.

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It is a business transformation involving organizational culture, enterprise business processes, customer relations, and workforce behavior just as much as it is a change to the enterprise IT infrastructure.

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But a modest transformation of the way you look at your enterprise or organization offers extraordinary advantages.

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Becoming a Social Business, or Social Enterprise as some call it, is a multi-faceted transformation.

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The enterprise market remains a work in progress, partly due to the rapid transformation of a workforce becoming increasingly mobile and consumer-grade expectations for accessing applications from both employer-provided mobile devices or a Bring-Your-Own-Device approach.

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Dell has been working for five years on transforming the firm from a mass maker of commodity PCs to an enterprise solutions provider (somewhat in the mold of Hewlett-Packard and IBM), and while the full transformation could take another five years, many signs of progress are already visible.

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