Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders

The Internet of Things (IoT) as a topic of interest is arising again, and with good reason. The IoT envisions a world in which all devices are attached to the Internet, providing enormous possibilities in control, data acquisition, and, most importantly, analysis.

On a recent day, The New York Times was down. Not the publishing plant, not the news gathering service, not even the New York Times Internet site that contains its Internet content. All of that was working fine; you just couldn't get to it. Now, this was something of a blow to me personally.

Data exploration is an attractive use case for traditional enterprises seeking to capitalize on Hadoop's extreme processing capabilities.

Organization agility is the ability of an organization to respond quickly and effectively to unanticipated events in its environment.

Recently, I commented on the increasing vulnerability of smart, Internet-connected devices for the home (see "Computer Security and the Internet of Things, Part I").

In a recent Advisor "Software as an Asset," I argued that most software systems are actually products that need to be managed with a product management perspective rather than a project management perspective.

There are few things in the software development world that are as complex or difficult as understanding, documenting, and testing the business rules that go into modern decision models.