Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders

As the use of mobile devices in the enterprise continues to grow, I see the realization of a dream that has, for the most part, been elusive: the greater use of speech-enabled enterprise applications.

The corporate world is littered with the carcasses of enterprises, large and small, wounded -- some mortally -- by failures of the "conjoined twins" of leadership and risk management. Why are these two concepts referred to as "conjoined twins"? Because neither can function without the other.

For many organizations, using the words "PMO" and "agile" in the same sentence could be considered an oxymoron. Bringing "agility" into your project management office may be a challenge -- depending on how much your organization has already invested in your current processes and how open you are to consider making "transformative" changes to support the organization's move to agile.

All effort in data warehousing is ultimately to make information discovery and delivery possible. Though I do not intend to explore the Inmon versus Kimball theories here, I do think they hold clues for dealing with industry models. There are also models that build two layers, one for storage and the other for consumption. It is important that enterprises learn to rise above these two theories and make a meaningful blend of the two.

Virtual communication is similar to face-to-face communication, with the obvious difference that participants are not in the same room at the same time.