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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This article tackles the how-to of architecture governance. Mohan Babu K provides a veritable cookbook, chock full of frameworks and matrices, to help enterprises think through the various aspects of setting up an architecture review board, which is one of the most important components of architecture governance. Along the way, he draws out lessons from an actual implementation that he carried out for his company. If you are looking to set up or review your architecture review board, this article provides valuable guidance.
This article starts with a view of the digital society that is emerging and paints a picture of a "new style of IT." How can architecture deal with all this disruption? Peter Beijer describes the changes needed in the architecture function, in the discipline, and in the very profession itself. His article underscores that business architecture is an imperative, that a common language is needed to bridge the business-IT divide, and that architecture needs to be refocused as "a strategic instrument."
Computing inspired by the design of brains is rapidly progressing. Very rapidly.
Executive Update
Leadership in IoT Enterprises
We are living in a time of technological revolution, globalization, uncertainty, and economic crises. The Internet of Things (IoT) is one such disruption. Consequently, there will be a demand for leadership in the fast-growing and disruptive IoT sector. In this Executive Update, we try to identify the leader's role in an IoT enterprise and point out potential leadership pitfalls.
Empowerment doesn't mean "do what you want" but rather "do what is needed to reach your goals."
The ability to attain strategic and organizational agility directly relates to the organization's ability to prepare stakeholders for change. In other words, a sustained state of change readiness coincides with the ability to attain organizational agility. Among other practices, it is vital to manage change in an organized way that is pervasive and well understood across the organization.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is going to have a tremendous impact on environmental protection. This will come about from end-user companies, researchers, the media, environmental watchdog groups, and even ordinary citizens using wireless sensors, video cameras, and drones for real-time environmental monitoring, pollution control, and facilities management and maintenance.
