Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders

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There is unanimous agreement among agile practitioners that agile development works for building small, stand-alone system

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.

What is the role of today's CIO? Is it disappearing completely or becoming irrelevant, or changing to become more strategic? Are today's CIOs competing for -- and gaining -- other C-suite titles? In this omnibus Council Opinion, the Cutter Business Technology Council considers these issues. Each contributor discusses the current and future role of the CIO in our changing business landscape.

Sometimes technology trends are hard to anticipate or understand. The topic of this Advisor is neither; it's just somewhat misunderstood. While this Advisor covers data analytics, it's not really about the "Big Data" that has been much discussed in recent months -- it's about even bigger data.

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As an IT executive in today's global business world, you negotiate with people from many cultures every day.

As an IT executive in today’s global business world, you negotiate every minute of every day, and, increasingly, those negotiations take place with people from cultures other than your own. Your customers come from all over the world, as do your employees, vendors, service providers, and business partners.

Cutter Senior Consultant Carl Pritchard takes you on a dynamic excursion through the language of risk, demystifying the practice. You'll learn the four simple ways to improve your risk management practice without changing the way your organization does business.