Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders

For the past year and a half, much of the hype surrounding Big Data focused on the technological aspects of Hadoop.

When writing about IT from the perspective of one's personal experience in consulting and managing, I have found it helpful to refer to references and frameworks. This allows me to compare my thoughts with others', and to frame those thoughts within some common reference points.

Business craftsmanship is concerned with organizational transformation and enlightenment. It can loosely be thought of as a framework -- and certainly utilizes one -- but "framework" is not quite the right term to describe this approach as the term implies stability, and usually a clearly defined set of rules. Scrum is a good example of an organizational framework. It has well-defined components, namely roles, meetings, artifacts, and values.

This year, 2013, may finally be the long-predicted "year of collaboration." In Part I of this two-part Executive Update series,1 I discussed five predictions related to increasing collaboration: collaborative tools for HR, 3D printing changing