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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The latest findings in neuroscience have broad implications for all aspects of business, from product design to leadership. Hot topics include human task performance, learning, motivation, attention, and memory. Deep insights from this research can lead to the creation of better software. For the IT professional, this will change the way software is designed and developed. It will also change how software teams are assembled and managed.
One of the many concepts only lightly touched on in Dean Leffingwell's Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) material is the concept of "Ba." As with many other things in SAFe, it is worthwhile here to spend some time digging for the original ideas and publications -- and to find a gem from 1998 that was unknown at least to me.
In this Cutter webinar, Senior Consultant Bob Benson provides you with a comprehensive framework to maximize the business value delivered by technology. Going well beyond theory, Benson provides real-world advice, including concrete examples, and an in-depth look at the seven critical enterprise IT capabilities every business and government organization must develop.
Wave is not your traditional enterprise BI toolset. Nor is it simply another add-on data visualization product. Rather, Wave employs a hybrid BI and search design intended to provide nontechnical end users with interactive self-service BI exploration and analysis capabilities.
The world of software development is now, and has been since its beginning, in a state of flux. When you think about it, how could it be otherwise? Software is the enabling technology that glues together all the other rapidly changing elements of 21st-century technology. Software not only powers your smartphone or big data cloud, it also helps chip designers to create hardware at submicroscopic levels. And software now powers tools that can recognize one face in a crowd of thousands.
The uncertain future of cloud computing and the plethora of frowny CIO faces of a couple years ago are rapidly giving way to the acceptance -- if not embracing -- of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), at least among IT leaders. The good news is that this shift is without the typical knee-jerk and shallow skepticism or naive Panglossian enthusiasm for the next new thing. This mental shift is tempered, real, and comes with more "buy" questions than "hold" or "sell" ones.
Lately mobile security has reached a new level of public attention due to celebrity-related privacy violations, and for very good reason. Our mobile devices are becoming ever more critical to our everyday lives and hold the keys to an increasingly rich vein of all manner of sensitive data -- both personal and professional.
Innovation has become accepted as central to competiveness in today's world, both in new product development and in enhancement of internal processes. Companies struggle with innovation, and there have been numerous attempts to regularize and program it. But the development of truly breakthrough ideas is difficult, and recognizing them when they do arrive can be harder still.