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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Insight
These are tough times. Organizations have to do more with less. Managers have to stop being afraid of their staff and they need to get more done with less. This doesn’t mean that they should ignore new technologies. Indeed, there are some technologies out there that are mature and would improve productivity by orders of magnitude if used correctly, but they require discipline, and discipline requires management and commitment.
In this webinar, Cutter Senior Consultant Masa Maeda will give you the foundation to understand what Kanban is about and why it is such an amazing productivity booster. Masa will describe the what, why, and hows of Kanban, and then open the session up to your questions. Don't miss this opportunity to see if Kanban is a tool that will support your agile methodology adoption.
The risk environment continues to grow in complexity as ever-increasing amounts of information become available to a growing array of processing and storage facilities on a rapidly diversifying range of devices. Complexity is fostered by the following:
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The growth of silos of protection, where areas of infrastructure or processes have evolved their own security and risk management processes
The idea of managing demand has gained much traction in recent years -- especially with demand for resources outstripping the budgets for those resources. It is an idea that increasingly has become part and parcel of our everyday lives. We are urged to control our energy consumption to better match generation capacity and efficiency.
Executive Update
Can You Afford to Be Innovative?
Surveys of CEO strategic priorities consistently place innovation near the top.1 However, innovation is synonymous with change, and lower levels of management, especially seasoned managers, know that change can be expensive and disruptive. In product development, changes late in a project usually mean serious schedule and budget overruns.
Executive Update
Envisioning the Ideas and Ideals of "People IT"
This Executive Update focuses on a specific vision of IT: right-time and right-scale delivery of right IT services to the right person at the right place. This view appears to be on solid ground today and is moving toward dramatic increases of acceptance. Consequently, two revolutionary trends are coming to the forefront as this vision takes hold of the people in command: enterprise IT and personal IT.