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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When done well, IT's role is easy to explain. IT serves the business by enabling its current goals and strategic ambitions while enlarging its plate of future opportunities. In effect, business and IT are an ecosystem.

The realm of Big Data is described by volume, velocity, and variety. Volume and variety have frequently been discussed, centering upon support for Hadoop and MapReduce. Volume, of course, refers to the sheer size of data sets, and variety is mainly about the increasing need to analyze unstructured data.

In the first Advisor in this series ("What's a Knowledge Worker to Do? Part I"), I pointed out that knowledge worker jobs are increasingly being replaced due to the rise of Big Data analytics and significant improvements in high-performance computing.

This Executive Update presents a methodology and a set of tools designed to support the software development process based on the collection and analysis of a large set of information. The design of such a system faces several challenges, such as data reliability and generating useful and timely analysis for both developers and managers. Furthermore, the data and its related analysis are not enough to support the development process in an effective way.

In this recorded, on-demand webinar, Cutter Fellow Robert D. Austin will inspire you to take a break from the way you typically view product development to consider techniques borrowed from the arts.

China is an important market for software as a service (SaaS) due to its huge population and current rate of economic growth in an otherwise flat global economy. For the Chinese, as well as for other developing markets, SaaS offers the possibility of using advanced software without investing in expensive infrastructure.

The proliferation of mobile devices for business use, in part fueled by the popularity of the "bring your own device" (BYOD) strategy, is helping drive corporate interest in enterprise app stores. To date, however, adoption of enterprise app stores has been limited for the most part to larger organizations.

By the time you get to the bottom of this Advisor, you will have at least three new ideas on how to get people engaged in your meetings. That's a powerful suggestion. In fact, the only reason that some of you continue to read this is because I just made that promise.