The proliferation of mobile devices for business use, in part fueled by the popularity of the "bring your own device" (BYOD) strategy, is helping drive corporate interest in enterprise app stores. To date, however, adoption of enterprise app stores has been limited for the most part to larger organizations.

By the time you get to the bottom of this Advisor, you will have at least three new ideas on how to get people engaged in your meetings. That's a powerful suggestion. In fact, the only reason that some of you continue to read this is because I just made that promise.

By the time you get to the bottom of this Advisor, you will have at least three new ideas on how to get people engaged in your meetings. That's a powerful suggestion. In fact, the only reason that some of you continue to read this is because I just made that promise.

The "conversation" paradigm of agile methods provides a quantum leap in terms of the philosophy of managing IT projects. A crucial element that beseeches discussion in agile projects is not just what to measure or not to measure but, in fact, whether to measure at all.

A common question asked by organizations that are defining their architecture programs is: "What should architecture look like?

Today's data production occurs at a faster and faster rate.

More and more volumes of data are being created at increasingly fast rates. The variety of information available to use, especially on the Internet but also within an enterprise, is growing.

One of the most popular articles ever written for the Harvard Business Review was authored by Frederick Herzberg in 1968.

Too many organizations struggle today with the issue of constantly shifting priorities, causing many teams and individuals to work on several projects simultaneously. What was the number-one priority yesterday might not be the same today. So how can organizations maintain flexibility and effective responsiveness to changing business needs while providing their teams with the necessary focus to actually get something done?

In this Advisor, I want to introduce the book The Soul of Design: Harnessing the Power of Plot to Create Extraordinary Products that I coauthored with my friend and colleague Rob Austin. It is also an introduction to the webinar that I am hosting with Cutter on 24 October ("The Soul of Design: Plot, Coherence, and Resonance in the Structure of 'Special Things' ").

In this Advisor, I want to introduce the book The Soul of Design: Harnessing the Power of Plot to Create Extraordinary Products that I coauthored with my friend and colleague Rob Austin.

Many enterprises have successfully leveraged speech technologies to build interactive voice response (IVR) self-help applications. Such mechanisms enable customers to conduct an ever-widening range of transactions with airlines, banks, retail, and other portals via speech over the phone.

As project manager, you have a great deal of say regarding decisions affecting your project, but everyone on the team -- including engineers, QA, sales, customer service, and other stakeholders -- knows that the project will only succeed if there is substantial consensus on what to do.

The title of a recent article in The Economist reads, "Companies Hope That "Chief Customer Officers" Will Provide Better Service.

My Advisor last week on the battle between proprietary and open source cloud standards seems to have struck a chord in the cloud community (see "Who Is Driving the Bus? The Cloud Standards Battle").

Many people, when they think of Big Data development environments, tend to think of the main Hadoop distributors such as Cloudera, HortonWorks, or MapR. But other providers have innovative Hadoop offerings, too. One I've been examining recently is DataStax.

Many people, when they think of Big Data development environments, tend to think of the main Hadoop distributors such as Cloudera, HortonWorks, or MapR. But other providers have innovative Hadoop offerings, too. One I've been examining recently is DataStax.

"It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong."

-- Abraham Lincoln

"It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong."

-- Abraham Lincoln

The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.

-- Deepak Chopra

Machine learning (ML) techniques, often referred to as predictive analytics or marketing analytics, are becoming commonplace in business and research alike. Regardless of name, all refer to the process of collecting and processing data along with the subsequent application of mathematical analysis to gain valuable insights.

Using a case study approach, we have researched why managers often disengage from project risk management. We singled out significant adverse events for a range of IT rollout projects, projects that involved the physical provision of client-server infrastructure plus (usually) a consistent set of software applications. We asked about key risks that the project managers associated with these events, whether and why those risks were known, and what actions, if any, they took in response.

One of the most important disruptive technologies that businesses can employ today is video. Video can benefit several business activities, including training, corporate communications, collaboration and knowledge sharing, and CRM.

Customer focus and attention to end-to-end processes are essential to success in improving business performance. This Executive Report outlines how organizations can deploy a process-based view and thereby become more adaptive and improve business performance. The tight linkage between process management principles and business architecture enables clarity in today's complex business-IT transformation landscape, facilitating closer business-IT alignment.

Global competition, increasing customer power, and quantum advances in technology have combined to demand a new and more adaptive approach to managing the business. In spite of significant advances in methods to improve business performance, such as TQM, Six Sigma, Lean, BPR, ERP, CRM, SaaS, and the cloud, many organizations continue to struggle in executing improvements to business performance.