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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In this Advisor, we discuss statistical project management through three perspectives: the rational view, the behavioral view, and the complex adaptive systems view.
How can you boost your career advancement quotient (AQ) measures to unlock your next big promotion? What's the impact of designing for accessibility up front on user experience for people with disabilities? Get answers to these questions and more in this issue of the Cutter Edge.
As the security focus switches from confidentiality to integrity and authenticity, we must change our approach. Instead of trying to predict and avoid every possible threat before embracing connectivity, we must move to accept that risks are unpredictable and dynamic, and that the best defense is to be alert to changes in circumstances, adaptive to changes in risk, and resilient in the face of failure.
This Advisor explains how monitoring progression metrics can help teams see if their actions are moving toward success. Additionally, as Agile uses value throughout the definition, backlog refinement, and activity prioritization processes combined with incremental delivery, teams can determine early on if their activities are having the desired result. If not, then they can apply the Agile proverb “pivot without mercy or guilt.”
Research organizations love trendy “celebrity” technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, cybersecurity, distributed clouds, and privacy technology. They’re easy to identify and hype. Many are, in fact, impactful in any given year. But what about the “underdogs”? Can they become “wonderdogs”? In this Advisor, we take a closer look at five underdog technologies that might have a major future impact on our personal and professional lives.
Many think that the more power that we vest in machines, the more harm they will do. But what if we could reverse that? What if we could harness AI and other digital technology to achieve fiducia ex machina: “trust from the machines”?
There are a number of ways citizen development (CD) adoption can accelerate the intended benefits of IT change programs, streamline business cases and proposals, and deliver real savings. This Advisor explores how citizen development and low-code/no-code can add value, even when considering worst-case scenarios.
On 12 May 2021, the US White House issued a presidential executive order (EO) on improving the nation’s cybersecurity. The purpose of this Advisor is to point to this EO as a resource that enterprises should study in some depth as well as to use it as a context to highlight ways to think more fundamentally and timelessly about cybersecurity.