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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Michael Jastram outlines the four trends driving product complexity and explains how AI has the potential to help us overcome the limitations of current development approaches. Both systems engineering and Agile struggle to keep up with today’s exponential growth in complexity. Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) was built to address complexity but requires a large up-front investment and frequently meets with cultural resistance. Jastram advocates for AI-based solutions that offer some of the benefits of MBSE without the need for long, expensive training processes. Regardless of the exact path, he’s excited for the coming years, saying ready-to-use solutions like IBM’s Watson barely scratch the surface of what’s possible.
Paul Clermont dives straight into the three overarching issues related to AI: unintended consequences, unintended bias, and privacy. Clermont offers no-nonsense advice for dealing with these issues, advocating for laws that make organizations responsible for the algorithms they use (whether bought or built) and prohibit unexplainable AI in applications that could harm people physically or affect their lives in significant ways.
This article presents the keys to achieving trust in AI. The first step is building cross-disciplinary teams. Then we must impart AI with emotional intelligence, which involves not only transparency, but also explainability and accountability. Eliminating bias and ensuring fairness must, of course, be in the mix.
In a recent webinar, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Jon Ward introduced an agile approach that uses behavioral theory, lean principles and agile wisdom to help teams create high-value solutions quickly. This Advisor shares the Q&A session that followed. Perhaps Jon's advice will spark some new ideas on how your organization can leverage Agile Lineout practices for team success.
In the age of transformation, advances in artificial intelligence are rapidly disconnecting end users from the complexity of the technology they use. The result is a world where we can do many things without having to understand how they work. For example, Amazon’s Alexa lets users ask complicated questions using natural language input and receive immediate answers.
With a new generation of cloud-enabled low-code tools, we can combine the simplicity and friendliness of easy-to-use development environments with the ability to deploy distributed business applications. This Advisor addresses some of the key arguments against low-code adoption.
In Part II of this Executive Update series on creating great innovation teams, we explore how to build meaningful missions.
A digital transformation is no less than a change in an organization’s activities, business processes, competencies, and models that allows it to fully leverage the opportunities of current and future emerging digital technologies. The effort, expense, and pain involved with this type of change may lead some to question the necessity.