Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders

Leadership and teaming skills are front and center in times of rapid change. Meet today’s constant disruption head on with expert guidance in leadership, business strategy, transformation, and innovation. Whether the disruption du jour is a digitally-driven upending of traditional business models, the pandemic-driven end to business as usual, or the change-driven challenge of staffing that meets your transformation plans — you’ll be prepared with cutting edge techniques and expert knowledge that enable strategic leadership.

Subscribe to Arthur D. Little's Culture & Leadership Newsletter

Insight

Executive Update

Using RM-ODP Encourages Business-IT Alignment

Haim Matthews

The Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP) is an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard. It offers precise concepts and constructs useful in defining complementary views of business and information systems issues clearly, concisely, and with no ambiguity.

Executive Update

Ask the Experts: Business-IT Alignment: Part I

Maxwell Hughes, Chris Pickering, Rob Thomsett, Steve Andriole, Steve Andriole, Jim Highsmith

This Executive Update is the first of a two-part series containing excerpts from a panel discussion on business-IT alignment. The discussion followed a presentation on adaptive software development that took place at Summit '99, Cutter Consortium's annual conference for IT professionals, which was held in April in Boston.

Project Estimation with Critical Chain: Third-Generation Risk Management

Richard Zultner

Why are so many software organizations interested in estimating projects better? Because they want their projects to be on time -- and perhaps in the recent past they've had at least one major failure in doing so? Why are so many software organizations interested in risk? Risk covers a multitude of causes, but ultimately risk affects the likelihood of your project schedule being delayed.