In creative ensembles where leadership isn’t an assigned role or position, a series of actions or behaviors enables collective creativity and can be enacted by every member of the team. In these groups, it’s imperative that every member participates in leadership actions and is prepared to take the lead at any moment.
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In 2-hours/day for 2-days, decision makers, strategists, technologists and program implementers will gain a deep understanding of the most urgent digital disruption threats and the ways of thinking and transforming essential to success in this era of disruption. Glean new strategic perspectives your team can incorporate into future plans and actions, and discuss and share ideas and experiences with both your team and colleagues from other participating organizations.
November 17, 2020
Few areas of business have produced as many surprises as has IT. If we look back over the past 40 years or so, we see an accelerating pattern of advance, driven by Moore's Law, in which technologies rise, propagate, and are then eclipsed by new and better technologies.
May 1, 2003 | Authored By: Robert Austin
Last summer, I had an experience that continues to make me think.
February 9, 1999 | Authored By: Robert Austin
I recently had lunch with the CEO of an information security firm and asked him about an impression I had from talking to firms about this area. "They don't seem worried enough," I suggested.
June 1, 2002 | Authored By: Robert Austin
This time of year, whether you want to or not, you have to give some thought to the basic issues of our IT management profession. Things like: Who's paying? How much can the company afford? What technologies does it want? And what is most important?
December 1, 2002 | Authored By: Robert Austin
Among the challenges managers have had to face during the IT "revolution" of recent years, dealing with an increasingly specialized workforce has provoked particular angst.
August 22, 2000 | Authored By: Robert Austin
A colleague of mine tells a funny story about interviewing for a job with Sun Microsystems when she was nearing completion of her MBA at Stanford University, California, USA.
September 26, 2000 | Authored By: Robert Austin
Beginning in about March of this year, you could almost hear the collective sighs of relief from managers of established (i.e., pre-Web) companies.
July 18, 2000 | Authored By: Robert Austin
Domain Innovation
May 31, 2009 | Authored By: Robert Austin, Cutter Business Technology Council
Domain Innovation
June 1, 2009 | Authored By: Robert Austin, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council
The critical 20th-century management skill — making things and people fit into systems that execute efficiently — will inevitably be transcended by a different 21st-century critical management skill: creating the conditions in which people of widely varying backgrounds, behaviors, and inclinations can maximize their particular contributions to economic value. This is certainly happening in most firms in developed economies, yet most managers (especially IT managers) have not yet come to grips with it. With this Executive Report, we move away from our usual format and revisit an "ahead of the curve" Council Opinion by the Cutter Business Technology Council, which highlights what has now become a major corporate movement.
September 1, 2015 | Authored By: Robert Austin, Lynne Ellyn, Tom DeMarco, Mark Seiden, Lou Mazzucchelli, Ronald Blitstein, Tim Lister
KNOWLEDGE WORKERS AND THE NEW EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT by Robert D.
April 30, 1997 | Authored By: Robert Austin
Domain IT Industry
January 31, 2003 | Authored By: Robert Austin, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council
Domain IT industry
July 31, 2004 | Authored By: Robert Austin, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council
Although some may argue that IT's capacity to contribute to business competitiveness has
April 22, 2012 | Authored By: Robert Austin, Richard Nolan
THE RIDICULOUS BUSINESS OF ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS In the 1980s, managers in most companies would have called an IT project with a US $10- or $20-milli
March 31, 2001 | Authored By: Robert Austin