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.
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Using Roadmaps Strategically
Roadmaps have two key functions in strategy planning. The first is to outline planned architectural changes that will deliver the required strategies; the second is to outline alternative ways to achieve the same results.
Managing the Cloud Dilemma: To Outsource or Not to Outsource
Our analysis in this Executive Update builds upon the challenges and risks we outlined in a previous Update, which showed how managers in regulated firms face a quandary: whether to play it safe and lock out cloud-based innovations and correspondingly lock themselves out of related innovations or to negotiate a rocky course, balancing the risks associated with these technologies and regulatory expectations. This Update provides a detailed assessment to help management understand when to strategically engage with cloud technologies and when to avoid them, thereby helping executives balance the need to innovate with the need to manage compliance risk. Our assessment, based on research and data collection conducted from 2014-2016, allows managers to evaluate the criticality of impacted services to maintaining compliance along with managers’ ability to understand and control transparency and supervision over cloud arrangements.
Thinking in terms of digital business capabilities helps focus on things that need to be done to achieve expected business results.
The Gig Economy
I have been a member of the “gig” economy for the last 20 years — I just didn’t know it.
In this on-demand webinar, you’ll discover how, regardless of the size of your company, you can take advantage of thinking about the future and act on transdisciplinary insights.
It is the enterprise architects’ responsibility to successfully implement and grow big data technology adoption. The real challenge, from my experience, lies in managing the various stakeholders involved and onboarding them successfully onto the big data transformation journey.
Japan is placing considerable emphasis on the use of AI applications and it will prove an interesting source of new information on upcoming developments in the application of cognitive technology.
Executing Digital Strategies
This Executive Update focuses on the execution of digital strategies and begins with an overview of digitization along with the distinct categories in which transformation programs fall. It highlights the responsibilities and accountabilities of IT leaders in enabling digital transformation. This Update also examines key technology enablers that underpin successful digitization efforts.