For an enterprise architect, the key point is to understand digital disruption as well as you can and plan the best possible response given this understanding.

Jan-Paul Fillié and Hans Boer talk about the “hills” an organization must surmount to implement Agile at scale. Based on their experience with numerous transformations, Fillié and Boer offer helpful advice on resolving such challenges as changing the organizational culture, coping with teams that deliver at different speeds, coordinating dependencies, and distributing Agile practices.

One of the hallmarks of a mature Agile team is continuous learning. “But,” asks author Jeff Dalton, “do Agile leaders know how and what to teach?” Dalton argues that after decades of “vo-tech” style learning, it’s time for a return to “the collaborative, interpersonal, and analytical skills that ... are so important for successful Agile adoption.” He introduces the Agile Performance Holarchy.

Bob Galen tells of IT leaders who turn to him in frustration as their Agile adoption efforts sputter. Why won’t their teams take the initiative? Why do team members wait to be told what to do? Galen has some uncomfortable news for these clients — it may not be the team but the leader who is at fault.

Jesse Fewell discusses the debate between proponents of a “culture-first” approach to Agile transformation and those who favor a “structure-first” strategy. He describes the pitfalls of each and makes the case that Agile adoption succeeds best when leaders “encourage a conversation that incorporates both perspectives.” He offers three tips for bridging the divide, then introduces the Agile Leadership Canvas.

This article focuses on “Leadership Agility.” The author has done extensive research on leadership and created a leadership development model that works exceptionally well in companies undergoing an Agile transformation.

Based on the demand for Agile skills in the workplace, it is quite clear that leaders across the globe are coming to rely more and more on Agile principles and practices to achieve their goals. What makes some of these leaders successful with their Agile adoptions while other leaders seem to struggle?

In this Advisor, I offer a real-world example of a company that is investing in the Industrial IoT (IIoT), taken from an ongoing project in a global life science–biopharma organization.

This Executive Update offers some advice on the scoping, implementation, and scaling of the digital backbone, drawing on the lessons the author has learned from his work with transformational change in technology organizations.

Cutter Fellow Professor Rob Austin and Cutter Senior Consultant Sheila Cox have developed two frameworks for leadership training of IT management, which Cutter Consortium has been successfully applying at both large and small organizations worldwide. Taught together, the IT Leadership for Advanced Organizational Capabilities course with Rob Austin and the Personal Competencies: Enhancing Individual Performance with Sheila Cox complement each other perfectly. But they are also powerful when delivered independently. For more information on how you can deliver on the promise of IT through strong leadership, complete our form, call +1 781 648 8700, or send email to sales@cutter.com. 

Implementing robotic process automation (RPA) in any organization is itself a process with defined steps. In this Advisor, we discuss the critical junctures required to achieve process automation implementation in any organization.

Many long-standing problems like technical debt owe their longevity to two factors — not dealing effectively with their causes and not dealing effectively with their resilience. Because what limits our ability to deal with technical debt might be not be technical, it is useful to explore possible psychological sources of the longevity of the technical debt problem, including the language we use to describe it.

Discover how to maximize your Agile project’s business value and deliver predictable results — the ultimate objective of any performance measurement system — using EVM.

In this Executive Update, we look at the most beloved companies and their best practices. We end with a list of questions you can ask about how to improve your customers’ experiences. We also discuss the role that vertical industry location, profit margins by industry, government regulation, and competition play in the customer experience management process to provide context to the explanation and management of customer experiences.

This Advisor considers the decision-making challenges faced by architects within complex enterprises and in the face of many kinds of uncertainties, as well as a way to think about how to design in the real-world gray area that lies between certainty and uncertainty.

Blockchain has a number of applications in finance and accounting, including for facilitating triple-entry accounting, ensuring data integrity, automated auditing, and streamlining money transfers and payments.

I strongly believe that adopting a particular methodology is not the answer to achieving agility. Rather, organizations need to fix their internal structure and the way they operate. In this Advisor, I will discuss the challenges hindering agility and also the bottlenecks that prevent organizations from delivering business value. I focus on six phenomena that make any organization rigid.

How do you want your billing? Per hour? Per second? Per millisecond? Amazon Web Services (AWS) now has them all.

The emergence of CX design as a key discipline practiced by many organizations has opened up some questions about how it relates to business architecture. This Executive Update provides an overview of the benefits and integration points between CX design and business architecture, two mutually beneficial disciplines, both critical to customer centricity and transformation. 

EA can be an effective tool for addressing digital and IT transformation in businesses of any size, as long as they are not rigid about their approach and do not try using a big hammer where thumb pressure will work.

This Executive Update highlights the importance of V for value in big data strategies. The discussion also explores how the adoption of big data is more than using technologies or undertaking analytics.

In this Advisor, I look at three stages of information superiority, with increasing levels of customer centricity.

In this on-demand webinar, you'll discover the challenges and pitfalls associated with adopting design thinking and learn how to overcome these challenges in your organization.

Cloud service providers (CSPs) are a new breed of IT service provider, popular around the world and across industries, and so the regulatory spotlight is shining on them more as they acquire larger enterprise customers in regulated industries.