Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders

The Agile Triangle, shown in Figure 1, was introduced in Agile Project Management 2nd Edition) and has been the subject of several Cutter Advisors. The Agile Triangle encourages teams to be flexible, agile, and adaptable -- it alters how we view success.

In my last Executive Update, "Enterprise Software Vendors: The State of the Union," 1 I examined the emerging competition for the high-margin business of supporting enterprise applications. In this Update, it's time to look toward the future of enterprise software.

There's a certain element of frustration associated with staying focused on what matters at a management level, and it's been exacerbated of late as I've begun a quick swim through the books I've finally pulled off my shelf.

Part I of this two-part Executive Update series showed how cloud computing is maturing to become commoditized across multiple solution and service domains. 1 Here in Part II, we discuss how the CIO of tomorrow becomes a concierge for information services, considers the full breadth of cloud business use case

Innovation factories may be characterized as entities whose central function is to encourage, develop, and disseminate innovation through application of some regular process or organization. Innovation factories exist across all industries, though many currently focus on specific areas.

Recall a moment in history: The decisions embodied in the plan were being executed. By the time a seemingly sacrosanct decision was reversed, military casualties exceeded 10,000, as many civilians died from forced evacuation and the starvation that followed. The plan might have ended World War II by Christmas of 1944. Yet Operation Market Garden fell far short of its objectives. It became known as "A Bridge Too Far." 1

Just a few years ago, the concept of on-demand BI was just that -- a concept. But today -- and forever going forward -- it's possible to outsource BI to a variety of providers. BI in the cloud is now possible, which potentially changes the schedule for the delivery of BI capabilities.

I've been working on a report covering complex event processing (CEP). One of the more interesting developments I've found regarding the application of CEP is that some organizations are implementing the technology in conjunction with BI to create advanced real-time analytical systems.