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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Management executives sometimes have expectations of delivery scheduling and commitments that they feel they got from waterfall -- even if they were illusory. Well, after moving the delivery team to Scrum, management often has the same expectations. In this Executive Update, let's reset those expectations and assert that Scrum gives you something more realistic -- and better.

In this Executive Update, we will explore how apps and open data combine to create new ways of working for both developers and users and some of the issues, problems, and benefits of working with these new tools and techniques.

It is not too strong an assertion to say that these last few years have been transformative in the potential role and structure of IT in most businesses.

The world of network regulation is exceedingly murky, yet it is of critical importance as much to business as to the consumer. Technological advances along with changes in the competitive field are forever challenging or amending regulations, as we'll explore in this Executive Update.

The ongoing IRS scandal, in which various groups were targeted according to keywords such as "tea party" in the search for infractions, has important lessons for emerging big data techniques.

There are times when major trends intersect. Sometimes they reinforce each other; other times they cancel each other out.

Few would argue that social media is not important when it comes to engaging customers for advertising, PR, sales, service, and other CRM activities. Yet due to compliance considerations, many organizations have real concerns when it comes to using social media in such capacities.

Just a couple of years ago, we were witnessing -- and some of us were deploring -- the "irrational exuberance" as well as the uncontrolled fears of many customers and decision makers about cloud computing.