Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders

"Take as much of the world's knowledge as possible and make it computable"

-- Stephen Wolfram

"Alpha now makes it possible for PhD students to cheat on their homework."

-- Heard at Semantic Technology Conference

The classic business case focuses on projects, portfolios, and strategies. Each of these initiatives is assessed with reference to value, cost, and risk. Or you can use SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis, if you like.

Agile methodologies are helping teams deliver software much faster and with much higher quality than ever before. Given the success of agile at the development team level, many managers are exploring the possibility of broadly implementing these methodologies with the intent of achieving the quality, productivity, and ROI benefits across the entire product-delivery organization.

Organizations that review their contracts on a systematic and regular basis will get more out of them in terms of both quality and financial results. Making the comprehensive reviews a core part of contract management practice signals to everyone involved in delivering and/or managing the arrangement that performance matters.

The software as a service (SaaS) model has matured as a viable strategic alternative to conventional software service options. With SaaS, customers do not own software but instead share a common code base and set of data definitions that clients are unable to modify. Customer-specific configurations and functional extensions are logically separated from the common code, and customers maintain them.

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