The importance of the mobile platform as a tool in the arsenal of modern organizations is undeniable. What is less clear is how firms should incorporate the potential of mobile technologies into their IT and process infrastructure. That's the challenge our authors in this installment will help you meet in your own organization.
March 2009
In this issue:- Mobile Technologies: Harnessing the Potential of the Anytime/Anywhere Future
- The Continuing Growth of Mobile Technologies
- Mobile Business: Upcoming Opportunities, Challenges, and Transition Approaches
- Mobile Technologies: Still Capturing Attention Despite Shrinking Budgets
- Mobile Technologies: Harnessing the Potential of the Anytime/Anywhere Future Survey Data
March 2009
Tough Times Demand New Metrics
The recession is forcing companies to make tough choices. New metrics are needed to make the right decisions on getting through the downturn.
Existing Metrics Are Good Enough
Organizations should resist the urge to concoct new measures when the existing ones, applied correctly, will do.
In this issue:- New Metrics for Managing Turbulent Times
- Ethics, Morality, Metrics, and Agility
- Metrics Show Architectural Impact on IT
- How to Deliver a Maximum-Impact IT Portfolio in Tough Economic Times
- Show Me the Money: The Use of Financial Metrics in Your Contracts
- Outcomes, Not Outputs: Why We Need Portfolio-Level Performance Metrics
February 2009
Don’t Throw the Baby Out With the Bathwater
ERM has received its share of the blame for the current financial mess. While there are some problems with current practice, it needs a bit of fixing, not wholesale renovation.
Chuck the Baby, Too
As currently practiced, ERM is useless at best and creates increased enterprise risk at worst. The role of ERM in organizations requires a complete rethinking.
In this issue:- Managing Enterprise Risk in a Failing Economy: Is It Time to Rethink Risk Management?
- Enterprise Risk Management: A Case of Unmitigated Failure
- The Risk Paradox: Why Effective Risk Management Seems to Encourage Poor Risk Management
- The Organizational Politics of Risk Management
- The Paradox of Uncertainty: When Less Means More?
- Empowering Enterprise Risk Management
February 2009
This month's installment of CBR takes a look at a trend that we see emerging, even though it may not be a reality (yet) for many of our readers. This topic, that my colleague Rick Watson and I call the “digital data genesis capability,” represents the notion that organizations must, in order to stay competitive in the future, develop the ability to embed digital computing equipment and IT in organizational processes to serve goals other than transaction processing, thus creating data in digital form and capturing it at its inception.
In this issue:January 2009
Companies that have adopted agile methods have realized faster throughput and higher business customer satisfaction on individual projects. Yet despite undeniable wins at the project level, sustained large-scale adoptions of agile methods are fewer and further between. What is preventing more comprehensive adoption of agile within organizations? Many agile experts point to a significant misalignment between the way agile projects are run and the way IT projects are governed in general. IT program and portfolio management, in particular, seem to be at the root of many of these alignment issues.
In this issue we'll explore ways to scale agile methods beyond individual projects so that their associated programs and portfolios can thrive. Hear how one agile consultant saved a failing 100-person company by introducing an agile portfolio planning game - and convincing the company to stop acquiring new customers (a much tougher sell)! Learn effective methods for ranking your projects - and the equally important lesson that "ranking isn't forever." Discover how to blend the adaptability of agile with the context and focus of traditional portfolio management to begin to deliver not just functions, but new organizational capabilities. Are the agile teams in your organization ready to level up?
In this issue:- Using Lean Portfolio Management to Scale Agile Methods -- Opening Statement
- Portfolio Management and Agile Software Development
- Selecting a Ranking Method for Your Project Portfolio
- Agile Planning Over the Long Term: The Portfolio Planning Game at TWeb
- Lean Portfolio Management at SciQuest
- Transformative IT: Creating Lean IT Portfolio Management ... or Not
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