Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders

This issue of The Cutter Edge explore strategies for making diversity, equity, and inclusion a strategic priority in your organization, why software development and change should be managed as a process, and more.

Of the three value disciplines, operational excellence is the one where real-time data streaming is most critical. While product development should operate at a reasonably fast and agile tempo, and customer engagement assumes a reasonably up-to-date picture of the customer, some of the most interesting benefits of real-time data collection and analytics sit in operations.

Despite a lack of solid evidence, most stakeholders agree that the health economics of mHealth look compelling. If, however, mHealth implementation expands post-pandemic as an integral part of established healthcare over the long term, the question then becomes who should pay for mHealth. The answer relies primarily on two parameters: who benefits economically from mHealth and who bears the risks of healthcare costs.

How well is your company dealing with the pandemic? As the pandemic crisis deepened and all your business plans were invalidated rapidly, you probably tried to experiment and innovate at high speed. Experimenting can easily be done as an undirected action if there is no reflection happening. Only reflection allows us to come up with experiments that are based on an hypothesis (drawn from both experience and theory). Then we can innovate — by understanding how to measure the experiments in order to (in-)validate our hypothesis.

This issue of Cutter Business Technology Journal dives deeper and looks at diversity, equity, and inclusion from different angles with the help of seven stellar voices who lend their expertise to educate, examine, enumerate, and offer solutions.

Since coming into prominence within financial services applications via technologies like cryptocurrencies and digital asset exchange, the race to find breakthrough applications in blockchain in other industries has been intense. However, despite major investments in knowledge, PoCs, and pilots, the results and value generated from these efforts remain modest, and it remains unclear whether blockchain technology really is the silver bullet that companies have hoped for. This is particularly true in the transport industry, identified early on as a promising area for blockchain applications due to its large number of independent but linked players, decentralized nature, and need to deal with issues like verifying authenticity and improving traceability and transparency, all while reducing transaction costs. In this Advisor, we share four cornerstones for executives in transport and many other industries to follow.

Examine today’s low-code/no-code (LC/NC) solu­tions — declarative development options with relatively low learning curves that provide a company’s workforce with the tools needed to easily create software to grow and transform the business.

In this interview, transformational coach Areej Khataybih offers a psychological perspective on women leaders and what contributes to their success and their challenges. She highlights the challenges that come from internal obstacles and beliefs of not being good enough and the battle of competing with male counterparts and, in the process, denying women’s full selves, the emotional and the logical.