Discover why design-driven companies, such as Apple, Nintendo, and Kartell, will lead the innovation game, build strong brands, and have products with longer life cycles than their competitors'.
May 6, 2008 | Authored By: Roberto Verganti
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IT executives are continuing to keep an eye on the US and world economies and are looking for ways to cut expenses to meet reduced spending goals. One option is to consider establishing an offshore development team or outsource to an offshore vendor.
August 14, 2008 | Authored By: Stacey Berlow
On 13 May 2002, Blockbuster, Inc., the leading US video rental chain, hit its highest stock price to date at almost $30 per share. Six years later, the price has fallen below $3 per share. The biggest reason for the decline? A Web site.
July 31, 2008 | Authored By: Jared Spool
Discussions surrounding risk management for the last decade have taken on the dual
May 22, 2008 | Authored By: Carl Pritchard
Part I in this two-part Executive Update series (Vol. 9, No.
February 14, 2008 | Authored By: Ian Osborne
IT manufacturing organizations face both regulatory and competitive pressures to adopt "green" strategies for manufacturing their products.
January 31, 2008 | Authored By: Damien McGovern, Tom Butler
When I'm away on vacation, one of my favorite activities is to rummage through old record albums at the flea market, looking for some long, lost treasure from my youth. On one such expedition last summer, I ran across Steve Martin's comedy album Let's Get Small.
September 2, 2008 | Authored By: Jeffrey Dols
Grid Computing Now! is a UK-based knowledge-transfer network aimed at championing the adoption of grid computing technologies to IT leaders in UK public and private sectors.
January 31, 2008 | Authored By: Ian Osborne
In the Web 2.0 consumer world, social networks are very hot.
September 9, 2008 | Authored By: David Coleman
Recently, I attended a conference that had a thin but interesting service-oriented architecture (SOA) track, with sessions such as "SOA: Hype or Happening" and "Security and Governance of Online and B2B SOA Traffic." While I attended both sessions, here I focus
November 13, 2008 | Authored By: Frank Teti
This issue of CBR was very interesting and a lot of fun to write. The topic, mashups, is cutting edge and receiving substantial attention -- at least in its most visible substantiation of consumer mashups -- and it is one of the engines of the Web 2.0 trend.
February 29, 2008 | Authored By: Gabriele Piccoli
This issue of CBR focused on a very importa
March 31, 2008 | Authored By: Gabriele Piccoli
Two years ago, my ophthalmologist sent me spiraling into an early midlife crisis. He casually mentioned that my eyeglass prescription would now be altered to correct my inability to read text at close range, a common experience for folks my age.
April 30, 2008 | Authored By: Bonnie Cooper
For those who have worked on numerous projects, it doesn't take long to tell when a project is being managed well or poorly. But what in particular makes one project manager better than another?
April 14, 2008 | Authored By: Martin Bauer
We know that people are our most valuable resource, but we seem to forget this too easily. Recently, I was with an executive team of a high-technology company, and the team was struggling with a string of late-to-market development projects.
May 15, 2008 | Authored By: Preston Smith
Last week, we celebrated the 40th anniversary of software engineering.
October 16, 2008 | Authored By: Jens Coldewey
There exists an agile scaling myth that goes something like this: "Agile development wo
December 25, 2008 | Authored By: Jim Highsmith
I once wrote a project plan for a global team with a business challenge of developin
July 22, 2008 | Authored By: David Rasmussen
This issue of CBR focused on a very important and timely topic: enterprise agility. It is also the third issue of CBR to center on agility; these installments looked at agility from various angles: the technical, the strategic, and now the managerial.
March 31, 2008 | Authored By: Gabriele Piccoli
One important concept about modeling is that models are based on a well-defined set of abstrac
December 30, 2008 | Authored By: Mike Rosen