Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders

The Internet of Things (IoT) promises companies many benefits from connecting products and services. But once you start examining the requirements of the connected device ecosystem, it soon becomes apparent that implementing and managing IoT products and their supporting infrastructure is a complex undertaking.

This Executive Update reviews key legal issues that businesses face when reviewing and negotiating contracts for IaaS. It discusses key requirements related to the service itself, remedies if the service fails in one or more of these requirements, and ways to ensure that if a "provider divorce" is necessary, it can be conducted with minimal mess and expense.

I'm afraid that some of the superficial approaches to "Agile" and "lightweight methods" have put design, planning, and software tools in a bad light.

Privacy is about to collide with big data. We are seeing some of the opening moves in different areas across the globe. In Europe, Google Maps has been criticized for portraying unauthorized images of people in street views. More recently in the US, we have seen the collapse of talks about use of facial recognition, where privacy advocate groups walked out of regulatory discussions because companies refused to acknowledge a need for prior permission if images were to be used for this purpose.

The world of civic apps is much like any other corporate philanthropic effort, but when there's corporate involvement (perhaps involving some of your corporation's specific skills), the efforts can help highlight your capabilities and can provide new opportunities for developing corporate expertise and resources.

This Executive Report develops a simple microarchitecture framework as a foundation for additional innovative architectural views of the structure and behavior of enterprises. The framework helps revitalize EA for the era of digital transformation, services-based enterprises, and a new generation of Web-savvy leaders.