Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders

Anyone in the business world is familiar with today's relentless pressures to increase productivity, improve customer relationships, create new products, shorten time to market, and increase shareholder return.

Misunderstood, poorly identified, and often brushed aside, the gap between strategic business demands and the ability of deployed IT solutions to meet those demands grows by the day.

Mobile device management will continue to play a key role in enterprise mobility in 2013 as organizations accelerate their use of smartphones and tablets in an effort to increase employee productivity and enable the business to respond more efficiently to customer wants and needs.

Some time ago, the Wall Street Journal ran an article with the title "What the CFOs Want." It reflected the views of a significant number of CFOs from large and small companies, including CFOs from companies such as PepsiCo, Comcast, Ford, DuPon

Although the popularity of current agile values and practices have their roots in software development, there exists a significant opportunity for these agile values and behaviors to be applied across the overall business.

The accompanying Executive Report introduces the "API Economy" to CxO-level executives of industries outside IT. It follows a novel dialogue format, as if it were a transcription of an introductory consulting session with the CEO and CIO of a fictional company in the oil and gas industry.

This year we've seen a few changes for CBR. We switched to a quarterly format and experienced an editorial change of cast, with myself taking the lead as editor. Another recent change we've implemented is to conclude each issue with a short list of action points.