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How can we resolve the polarity in organizations between the need for learning versus the need for producing results? How can we foster a culture that allows taking the time to learn and try different approaches despite the ever-present focus on results? This Executive Update explores learning by doing from different angles and attempts to shine a light on various ways that teams and organizations can speed up their learning curve by consciously taking action and learning from the results.
How do we get value out of the money we earmark for training? How can we get what we paid for? In most purchase situations, we can see what we're getting; we can touch the computer, phone, or car we bought. We can compare product or service reviews to decide which to buy. We can read a list of specifications to determine what we're getting for our money. Yet when it comes to training, the best we have is a list of objectives....
Recently, there was a significant "news buzz" when Chris Roberts, a computer security researcher, was removed from an airplane after tweeting comments about the ability to access "critical" aircraft data via an underseat passenger connection available at each seat. These connections were intended to allow passengers to access the Internet and other harmless flight information. But Roberts, being a security expert, says that he has been able to access functions, like deploying the oxygen masks that might panic passengers and endanger a flight.
This Executive Update offers an overview of the Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA) — a free-use, open source security architecture framework that is particularly useful for enterprise architects.
This Executive Update provides an understanding of the concepts behind fork and pull and its possible applications for internal and external software development projects, as well as its potential for other applications.
I know of several projects under way utilizing sensors, analytics, and mobile technologies to optimize rail operations by collecting and analyzing operational data to determine real-time vehicle location and operating factors such as average acceleration, speed, idle times, number of stops, driver performance, and so on, and to assess KPIs on equipment wear and rail/roadbed conditions.
This Executive Report details seven major challenges experienced when adopting the cloud. The technology function requires new, turbo-charged core capabilities in business innovation, business savvy, governance, architecting, and specialist sourcing as an "anchor" policy for moving to the cloud.
Today, IT executives are dealing with major trends and substantial technological and business issues in any cloud transformation of their company. Based on our 2014/2015 research, this Executive Report, the first of two in a series, covers four major questions executives regularly ask us.