Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders

The latest news to set the social analytics world buzzing is retailing giant Walmart's "Shopycat" social shopping application for Facebook.

When making investment decisions that could impact the business for multiple decades, it is vital to take a measured approach. Forward-thinking leaders and stakeholders should evaluate choices and trade-offs based on a long-term view with a broad historical perspective.

Over the last decade, we've been engaged in an enthusiastic and far-ranging exploration of various kinds of openness. We've explored open data standards and open application platforms as well as the concept of open innovation in which we seek to leverage both the intellectual property and exploitive capability of external individuals and organizations.

In case you have forgotten your high school biology, convergent evolution occurs when different organisms from different genetic lineages acquire the same trait. Bats and birds both have wings, even though they do not share any ancestor with wings.

David Anderson describes Kanban as an evolutionary change method.1 In comparison to other agile methods, Kanban can be introduced with little changes. But what are the differences between different methods? And is there a way to handle changes more successfully?