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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Perhaps the best example of an adaptive and integrated field of knowledge is IT. Yet, it is quite shocking to see how many companies fail to invest a meaningful amount of time and resources to thinking actively about the future, with teams based in transdisciplinary collaboration.

In this on-demand webinar, Cutter Senior Consultant Diana Larsen leads you through an overview of the process for planning, designing, and conducting a liftoff, with agile chartering at its core. 

Digital transformation requires a well-orchestrated, innovative, and collaborative approach from the EA perspective. However, in most modern enterprises, digital transformation is an ongoing — and perhaps unending — activity. Continuous technological changes result in continuous transformation that in turn result in “Agile” enterprises.

In this issue of The Cutter Edge: The Ethical Challenges of a Robotics Revolution | The Role of EA in an Age of Terrorism | The Human Side of Business Transformation Webinar.

The current market for IoT implementation platforms is still very much developing. Consequently, IoT cloud products and services are evolving steadily and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future as the market for connected platforms and services accelerates over the next few years in response to the demand from end-user organizations for practical IoT implementa­tion and data management and analysis tools. That said, a considerable number of products are available from a range of vendors, and here, Curt Hall surveys them.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is driving demand for cloud-based platforms designed for building and managing connected solutions and for storing and analyzing the data they generate. This Executive Report examines the available products for implementing IoT applications and services, including cloud-based IoT infrastructure platforms, IoT infrastructure services, cloud-based IoT data management and analysis platforms and services, and industry/domain-specific IoT solutions and commercial applications.

The use of vendor panels has been standard practice in business and government for some time; indeed, you probably don’t give it much thought. However, panels are grossly underutilized, despite receiving the highest “very satisfied” score with customers relative to sole sourcing (single suppliers) and head contracting (prime contractors with subcontractors).

Explaining the poor utilization of panels is not so simple. There are a myriad of traps that organizations fall into. This Executive Update explains the common traps and provides the tricks to leverage your use of panels.

Business continuity planning, information security governance, and IT governance are critical activities in managing the operations of today’s organizations. Traditionally, these areas have been handled as separate and distinct activities. Effective organizations can no longer afford to manage these activities separately if they wish to streamline planning, guarantee adequate response to business-impacting events, and control costs.