Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders
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In this issue of The Cutter Edge: Looming Threats in Cloud Computing, Does the Business See IT as Delivering Value?, Mobile Security in the IoT, IT Budgeting 2015: Folks, It's Time to Remodel, more.
As we describe in this Executive Update, vision is the overarching driving goal for your organization’s future. It is not a measure of success or a target; it is not about increasing your profit margin. It is an important change that will shape your organization’s next five to 10 years.
According to Dennis Adams who has analyzed Cutter's IT budgeting survey for the past 10 years, IT managers believe that senior corporate-level managers and senior business unit–level managers regard IT as a partner.
Bob Charette discusses the steps makers and users of technology should be taking to offset what appears to be a rising backlash against automation in this webinar, recorded on December 9, 2015.
A method is essentially a pattern. Just as a design pattern abstracts and encapsulates knowledge of many experts which, in turn, can help fast track new designs, similarly a method provides guidance for new initiatives based on collective past experiences. Agile as a method (notably Scrum, but also other methods under the Agile umbrella such as XP) brings to us the experiences of practitioners who discovered that visibility, honesty, cross-functionality, and iterations can help a software project immensely.
Question leadership is a question-based management principle not a bumper sticker. Most brilliant, innovative leaders know that leading by asking questions is a more powerful leadership style than just having the “right” answers, and gets you not only better business and organizational outcomes, but also more widespread employee — and customer and stakeholder — commitment. Moreover, asking the “right” questions, in the right order, communicates the goals you want to achieve.
Cutter Consortium conducted a survey asking organizations worldwide about their thoughts and plans for the Internet of Things (IoT). Parts I and II of this Executive Update series covered survey findings pertaining to how organizations view the IoT in terms of importance, the current and future status of corporate IoT budgets, whether survey respondents see the IoT living up to all its hype, and the main objectives and goals driving organizations to develop connected devices and applications.
When you read the literature, it all seems so easy: everybody just works together to build a high-quality system that provides users exactly what they need — on schedule and under budget. However, as you might expect, Agile and DevOps are not "magic potions"; nor are they “free.”