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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Business intelligence (BI) has been evolving recently under the combined pressures of more sophisticated processing requirements, wider access for nonanalysts, and the increasing need for real-time analysis. The need for analysis is acute, yet meeting that need with the traditional enterprise data warehouse structure is viewed as increasingly problematic.
In this issue, you'll discover how a midsized online retailer, still reeling from lawsuits and a highly public data breach, righted its course by implementing a formal risk management program with information security, privacy, and regulatory compliance components. You'll hear from a professional penetration tester, who will tell you why it's in your best interests to have someone like him (or your own IT professionals) break into your network -- and how such tests can benefit everyone from compliance and security employees to your audit and legal departments. You'll even learn how a “global governance” approach can enable you to bring “diverse economic, political, professional, and educational resources” to bear on your organization's security and privacy compliance challenges. Join Cutter Senior Consultant Rebecca Herold, one of Computerworld's “Best Privacy Advisers” of 2008, for a closer look at why this topic should be at the forefront of your agenda.
CUTTER IT JOURNAL VOL. 22 NO. 8
CUTTER IT JOURNAL VOL. 22 NO. 8
CUTTER IT JOURNAL VOL. 22 NO. 8
"We learn from history that we learn nothing from history," or so wrote Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw in The Revolutionist's Handbook
The swine flu pandemic gives us an opportunity in real time to see how accurate Shaw's observation is in practice, especially in regard to "near misses."
Nearly four years ago, Tim O'Reilly offered up a "compact definition" of Web 2.0. He wrote that it is: