Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders

The accompanying Executive Report examines Apache Hadoop, with an eye toward its application in more mainstream organizations.

"Leadership yoga" -- flipping the organization upside down to have their eyes to the ground to see the grass roots, where the next opportunities are starting to grow. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School professor

In my last Advisor ("Change Management 3.0, Part I"), I introduced the Change Management 3.0 "supermodel," which encompasses a few smaller well-known models of change, where each model addresses one of the following

While I normally wouldn't apply construction analogies to software development, I do think they have a place when it comes to rolling out an agile process to a large-scale product or system development organization.

First, the bad news. If someone in your firm is unwilling or unable to provide the focused leadership needed to build cross-functional relationships, don't try to scale agile -- and especially don't go "Big Agile"!

There are many examples from other arts and crafts that lead one to believe that discipline is good for art.

The story of Saint Patrick is an epic unto itself; not because of the miracles wrought, but because of his remarkable savvy about those around him. St. Patrick is attributed with converting the whole of Ireland -- the only such recorded Christian missionary to do so without bloodshed. How did he achieve this wonder?