Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders

Agile is well served by exploring the connections between knowledge, culture, psychology, and technology. As Cutter Fellow Vince Kellen states:

Trust is the bandwidth of communication.

-- Karl-Erik Sveiby

Trust but verify.

-- Ronald Reagan

My Executive Report "Agile Business: The Final Frontier" outlined some key elements of how we can extend and expand the fundamental concepts of Agile project management (APM) and Agile development to an holistic organizational approach to organizational agility.

The Circle -- the new novel from Dave Eggers -- is being billed as sort of a modern 1984 meets A Brave New World.

Hadoop is receiving a lot of attention from data mining and predictive analytics practitioners because it offers a scalable platform for building, training, and testing models that can be executed in parallel using massive volumes of data, as opposed to typical data mining practices involving the use of sample data sets for m

Cyber war is the use of IT as a theater of war. The primary focus in recent years has been upon so-called cyber weapons used to affect military and industrial control systems. The most prominent of these was Stuxnet, a piece of malware created by the US and Israel to damage Iran's cyclotrons.

In moving from the 20th to the 21st century, powerful advances in connectivity and computing power, along with the trend of centralization of media sources and tech tools, have caused big shifts in many sectors.

Every year, we hear about a shortage of talent. Many people label it a "war for talent." Well, this war has been going on for decades, with no end in sight. Is it really a war?

No. And there's data to back me up.