Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders

Your smartphone dings to signal the arrival of an email. Upon seeing its title, "Build #452 failed," your stress level doubles. You approach Rae, a talented developer, and say, in a slightly ticked-off tone, "I notice the build broke."

Note from the Managing Editor: The Agile Manifesto places value on individuals and interactions. Nonetheless, according to feedback from our readers, "soft" skills remain an area of difficulty for many in IT. Negotiation, a necessary element for successful projects, can be a minefield for anyone.

As the digitization of society continues via the adoption and use of information and communications technology (ICT), the arena where economic, political, and social activities develop will continue to shift toward a low-cost, low-friction digital environment.

A paradox increasingly confronts a number of researchers and analysts: to derive value from data, you need a lot of it. We now have the tools to analyze these large amounts, but few institutions, at least in the private sector, are willing to make it available to others.

If you are a CIO, project manager, or chief architect involved in or contemplating a very large system replacement, you owe it to yourself to read Jerome (Jack) Israel's article in IEEE Computer entitled, " Why Can't the FBI Build a Case Management System?" It is a

In the past few years, business analysis (BA) as a profession has picked up speed. Its popularity has brought about a greater need for training, which occurs in many different formats, suiting varied audiences.

As more traditional enterprises start to move their Hadoop projects into production, they are confronting the big question: How do we ensure data security and compliance in Big Data environments like Hadoop?