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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Although some may argue that IT's capacity to contribute to business competitiveness has faded, we suggest instead that it has evolved and expanded, maturing and changing within a subset of companies that have effectively managed to use IT in various ways. In this two-part Executive Report series, we examine the status of the use of IT to improve organizational capabilities and promote business value, identifying varieties of use and directional trends as well as managerial challenges and critical success factors through five case studies.

Although some may argue that IT's capacity to contribute to business competitiveness has faded, we suggest instead that it has evolved and expanded, maturing and changing within a subset of companies that have effectively managed to use IT in various ways. In this two-part Executive Report series, we examine the status of the use of IT to improve organizational capabilities and promote business value, identifying varieties of use and directional trends as well as managerial challenges and critical success factors through five case studies. Here in Part I, we explore the first two: the Boeing 787 and JPMorgan Chase.

Although some may argue that IT's capacity to contribute to business competitiveness has faded, we suggest instead that it has evolved and expanded, maturing and changing within a subset of companies that have effectively managed to use IT in various ways. In this two-part Executive Report series, we examine the status of the use of IT to improve organizational capabilities and promote business value, identifying varieties of use and directional trends as well as managerial challenges and critical success factors through five case studies.

Somewhere in prehistoric times, a clever ancestor stumbled upon the advantages of applying shareable knowledge to common problems. Thus, collaboration was born.

SaaS is increasingly considered "enterprise grade" by many IT buyers and a viable choice in achieving reduced costs, improved service, and ongoing, timely functional currency.

One important development expected to lead to greater use of Hadoop and MapReduce in the enterprise is the (ongoing) integration of the technologies with relational databases and SQL-based tools.

I recently met with the Scrum rollout team of a new client -- an enterprise software F500 company. This inhouse rollout team has been "Scrumming" for a little over a year now. The team has already trained/coached about 40 Scrum teams.

Leadership Is an Art

Leadership is a phenomenon that is hard to describe or quantify. Like musical talent or athletic ability, leadership is innate -- some have it, some don't.