Strategic advice to leverage new technologies

The proliferation of mobile devices for business use, in part fueled by the popularity of the "bring your own device" (BYOD) strategy, is helping drive corporate interest in enterprise app stores. To date, however, adoption of enterprise app stores has been limited for the most part to larger organizations.

By the time you get to the bottom of this Advisor, you will have at least three new ideas on how to get people engaged in your meetings. That's a powerful suggestion. In fact, the only reason that some of you continue to read this is because I just made that promise.

The "conversation" paradigm of agile methods provides a quantum leap in terms of the philosophy of managing IT projects. A crucial element that beseeches discussion in agile projects is not just what to measure or not to measure but, in fact, whether to measure at all.

A common question asked by organizations that are defining their architecture programs is: "What should architecture look like?

More and more volumes of data are being created at increasingly fast rates. The variety of information available to use, especially on the Internet but also within an enterprise, is growing.

One of the most popular articles ever written for the Harvard Business Review was authored by Frederick Herzberg in 1968.

Too many organizations struggle today with the issue of constantly shifting priorities, causing many teams and individuals to work on several projects simultaneously. What was the number-one priority yesterday might not be the same today. So how can organizations maintain flexibility and effective responsiveness to changing business needs while providing their teams with the necessary focus to actually get something done?