"Through collaboration, we can find how to deliver the right results for all stakeholders in the organization, for as the Japanese proverb says, `None of us is as smart as all of us.'"
-- Pollyanna Pixton, Guest Editor
Not another meeting! All that collaboration takes too much time. People need to stop talking and start building.
Agile software development has emerged as a viable option for enhancing speed of delivery and customer satisfaction in systems development projects. With the viability of Agile approaches now beyond suspicion, we at CBR thought an issue on how to make the Agile approach stick in your organization would provide the most ROR (return on reading).
"Strategy remains elusive partially because managers do not know the difference between ‘sustainable advantage' and other business objectives. It also remains elusive because managers do not appreciate how many things can create sustainable advantage."
-- Victor Rosenberg, Guest Editor
In this issue of CBR, we focus on emergency preparedness and disaster recovery planning. Our goal is to help you build a resilient organization — one that will be in the best position possible to "weather the storm."
"If we accept that SOA is the royal road to better alignment between business and IT, we must face the question: exactly how will this alignment come about?"
-- Tom Welsh, Guest Editor
