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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By shipping software, an executive agrees to assume the risk that the software will not cause some future costly event. However, there is still some possibility that some event will occur, creating a significant liability. By assuming this risk, the organization self-insures itself against future liabilities. This Executive Report explores how to price this self-insurance and how to use this price in the decision to ship or to invest further in improving software quality.
Every software executive that faces the decision whether or not to ship code must answer the question, "Do the economic benefits of shipping outweigh the economic risks?" To decide, the executive must have a view of each. The hoped-for benefits are clear in that they are up front in the decision to build the software.
In a prior Advisor (see "Something Is Happening Here"), I briefly described four megatrends shaping the world we live in. The topic of this Advisor, the end of anonymity, is worth a deeper look.
