Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders

Everyone is talking about big changes in IT. They are indeed big -- bigger, in fact, than the ones we discussed before the dot-com bubble exploded. What are you going to do about them?

Here are five areas that require your immediate attention:

1. Devices

2. Software

With the explosion of data and computing devices over the past decade and the about-to-explode iPad-like consumer device market, it is unsurprising that a vigorous debate about how people should use or not use data and computers has ensued.

Excellence is an old topic, more honored in a book than observed in the workplace. Nonetheless, it is an important topic because of some almost unbearable forces that are shearing the workplace.

There is growing apprehension among business leaders, economists, and ordinary Americans that we are witnessing what may well be the largest outmigration of nonmanufacturing jobs in the history of the US economy.

-- Askok Bardhan and Cynthia Kroll

In today's business realities, there are circumstances in which traditionally employed information access schemas are incapable of securing information against breaches. Such a class of problems can be identified as sensitive information security related to conflict of interests.