Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders

We've been involved recently in a number of client initiatives to improve their IT governance. But what exactly does that mean?

Many reviews over outsourcing agreements are conducted in a similar fashion as employee performance reviews. There are a few categories, and the current contract manager gives his or her personal opinion about performance on an annual basis.

Much of the agile literature deals with applying agile principles to software development, project management, program management, and (possibly) portfolio management. To succeed with applications in these disciplines, employees must first be won over to wholeheartedly adopt agile.

Open innovation does not have the solid brand recognition that Joe Feller and I were expecting to see from the vast majority of the respondents to a recent Cutter Benchmark Review survey (see "Open Innovation: The

Not all SOA projects are created equal. Indeed, we might question the very notion of an "SOA project." At one end of the spectrum is the "services in advance" (SIA) approach. At the other end of the spectrum are more tactical, bottom-up approaches.

Use of virtual teams in an agile development environment has always been controversial. Many consider that the close communications required to enable development methodologies such as Scrum are simply impossible to achieve with virtual teams.

What do we mean by green computing or sustainability? Does it mean a focus on energy efficiency in the data center through less heat-producing and lower power-consumption server blades? Is it virtualization and shifting computing into the cloud to reduce carbon footprint or reducing paper consumption through new paperless processes?