LOB

LOB may refer to:

• Line of Business

Why this is interesting for a Chief Digital Officer (CDO)?
According to Porter, Lines of Business (LoB) are the standard for structuring companies and their areas of responsibility. Examples are Sales, HR, Logistics, Production, etc. Therefore this is elementary for Chief Digital Officer (CDO). Often so-called silos or silodenks are formed, i.e. the departments do not think cross-company or cross-process. With the help of end-to-end processes, this can be broken down. In addition, the agile approach offers many possibilities to break up companies and their business areas in their silo thinking.

See also (glossary Line of Business (LOB)):

• Line of Business (LOB)
• Digital Marketing
• Digital Sales
• Human Resources (HR)
• Human Resource Management (HRM)
• Marketing
• Sales

Why this is interesting for a Chief Digital Officer (CDO)?

Refers to the digitization of internal company structures and processes. Here, the digitization of the company's own product and service chain is at the forefront.

This is about answering the questions:

• How can I increase my productivity through even more digital processes?
• How can I increase my productivity through even more digital processes?
• How can I achieve faster results through even more digitalisation in the company?

See also (glossary Internal Digitalization):

• Internal Digitalization
• Digital Strategy
• Digital Architecture
• Digital Factory
• Digital Governance
• Digital Organization
• Digital Processes
• Digital Transformation

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The term LOB is an abbreviation.
In the digital world Three-letter acronym (TLA) are very popular.
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title LOB. In the case of a keyword with several meanings, the terms must be clearly distinguished so that readers can quickly find the articles belonging to them. These are so-called homonymy, homograph or polysemy. Usually at chief-digital-officers.com these are abbreviations which are described in more detail. Especially in regards to Chief Digital Officer (CDO), digitalization and digital transformation.

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Following abbreviations are also in this glossary:

• Account-to-Report (A2R)
• Anything as a Service (XAAS)
• Chief Digital Officer (CDO)
• Chief Disruption Officer (CDO)
• Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
• Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
• Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)
• Chief Operation Officer (COO)
• CxO
• End-to-End processes (E2E)
• Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS)
• Initial Bounty Offering (IBO)
• Initial Coin Offering (ICO)
• Order to Cash (O2C)
• Platform as a Service (PAAS)
• Purchase-to-Pay (P2P)
• Software as a Service (SAAS)
• Workplace as a Service (WAAS)
• File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
• Internet Protocol (IP)
• Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
• World Wide Web (WWW)

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For more abbreviations regarding LOB please refer to en.wikipedia.org: LOB.

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