This Advisor explores long-term and short-term solutions to the issues posed by the "four horsemen" of not-so-strategic HR practices.
September 9, 2020 | Authored By: Robert Ogilvie, Jeffrey McNally
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With the dawn of the 21st century, we have begun to observe a more inclusive digital shift in value creation, with the transformation of business as well as societal systems due to an emerging phenomenon: a new computing paradigm that has introduced myriad Web and mobile-based applications aiming to fulfill society’s primary and secondary human needs. Nonetheless, many attempts to develop social computing applications to facilitate value creation have failed. We have created a human needs fulfillment (HNF) model that enables an optimum fulfillment of human needs, resulting in value creation.
May 12, 2020 | Authored By: Athula Ginige, Marie Fernando
Magesh Kasthuri discusses how city administration can use blockchain. He provides various insights into decentralized architecture, including its technology benefits and security implementation. The article highlights a need for self-healing and auto-scaling services within a smart city architecture, which can be achieved by a blockchain network based on HyperLedger Fabric in a cloud environment. Blockchain can make cities more efficient and more resilient and adds greater transparency and security to a city’s digital processes. Applying DLT technologies in smart cities is an opportunity to reshape many aspects of how cities are organized and managed in order to better serve their citizens.
January 7, 2020 | Authored By: Magesh Kasthuri
The team is the fundamental unit of organizational work, not the individual. But the ways we manage our teams — and thus our talent — often set us up for systemic gaps and increasing challenges (versus continuous improvement) over time. Today’s executives face two ongoing complex problems: business strategy and people leadership. The invisible nature of these talent issues makes solving them a strategic need through HR capacity building over time.
August 25, 2020 | Authored By: Robert Ogilvie, Jeffrey McNally
Ingrid af Sandeberg is a Manager at Arthur D. Little (ADL), based in the Nordic region, and a member of ADL’s Strategy & Organization practice, with affiliation to ADL’s Telecommunications, Information Technology, Media & Electronics (TIME) and Health Care & Life Sciences practices. She earned a master’s of science degree in accounting and financial management from the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. She can be reached at consulting@cutter.com.
So what is beyond the frameworks? Has Agile itself “pivoted without remorse?” Discuss, with Jon Ward, the importance of frameworks in achieving enterprise agility.
November 10, 2020
Craig McComb had over 38 years' progressive experience in infrastructure and operations; IT management; enterprise e-business and business process automation; information systems/decision support solutions, project/program management, organizational transformation and change management. Craig was a retired U.S. Government IT/PM professional who has also applied his skills in university and local government settings. He served as a career mentor, coaching personnel in support of advancing their career objectives and personal growth, as well as creating and enhancing synergy in high…
Peter Hruschka is a Principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild. As a trainer and consultant, he concentrates on business analysis, requirements engineering, and system and software architectures, preferably in the embedded world. Mr. Hruschka loves to be involved in developing products that combine software with hardware, electrical, and mechanical components – thus creating interesting systems in domains like medical systems, automotive, telecommunications, manufacturing, and others. He is cofounder of arc42, a portal for practical and pragmatic hints for software architecture documentation…
Athula Ginige and Marie D. Fernando look at the idea of value creation in the digital shift era. In particular, their interest lies in how current Web- and mobile-based applications support what they term the “social computing” model, a new computing paradigm that stands apart from preceding computing paradigms. Their article presents a model for human needs fulfillment, which helps organizations map out their digital value-creation process and reveals the underlying information flow pattern required to secure trust.
March 4, 2020 | Authored By: Athula Ginige, Marie Fernando
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
Many classic change management models fail to consider the significant dimensions of technology and innovation. This Advisor shares a case study involving a bank that developed key performance indicators to track all dimensions of change, enabling the bank to constantly improve its capability to implement change.
November 26, 2020 | Authored By: Jagdish Bhandarkar, Namratha Rao
A project can reconfigure the arrangement of distributed resources, human or otherwise, at any point in the lifecycle of the project, especially with the help of enterprise architecture (EA) to substantially rethink project technology and even organizational approaches. Projects can and should reinvent themselves.
April 1, 2020 | Authored By: Vince Kellen
Collaboration is a key factor in solving many complex problems, including the one we currently face. In fact, collaboration is a new paradigm that is increasingly finding its way into many traditional practices, including the modern corporation, where it has been introduced via horizontal organizations. Horizontal organizations are based on collaboration and trust as their default strategy. This kind of organization increases employee satisfaction and builds higher profits. In this Advisor, we examine how practices such as an open-book management policy (OBM), consent decision making, and a bold profit-sharing policy lead to greater profit and, ultimately, real customer satisfaction.
May 21, 2020 | Authored By: Jorge Silva
I often describe the strategic risk management of emerging technology and disruptive business models as a combination of continuity and change. Striking the balance is often difficult in a high-stakes, rapidly changing environment. However, one should find comfort and guidance in the fact that while the technical components change, the principles of risk management remain the same. The trick is to understand the technology enough and apply the appropriate mitigation strategy to de-risk the solution while striking a balance between business value and the assumption of too much organizational risk.
February 20, 2020 | Authored By: Timothy Virtue
It takes a lot more than rugged and hardened data architecture to ensure data quality. One way of thinking about data quality issues as they relate to data architecture is to examine and address them through a layered approach described in this Advisor.
December 9, 2020 | Authored By: Rich Huebner
Researchers at hospitals, universities, and technical institutes are teaming up to apply artificial intelligence, machine learning, and analytics to help determine and predict COVID-19 patients’ hospitalization paths and medical needs.
June 30, 2020 | Authored By: Curt Hall
If your enterprise architecture (EA) program is not engaged in digital transformation, I offer some advice that comes from successful cases where an EA program overcame the situation that had it sidelined and was brought in to an already running digital transformation.
November 4, 2020 | Authored By: Avinash Malik
Jorge Silva presents a radical departure from conventional wisdom. He documents his own experience with his software company to suggest that the historical structure of organizations is outdated and needs to be replaced with a new construct, one with minimal hierarchy and no “bosses.” Silva suggests that this new construct releases creativity and innovation, allows organizations to become nimble and adaptable, and engages employees as leaders and owners.
April 8, 2020 | Authored By: Jorge Silva
While every UN member state should use the SDGs for framing their agendas and political policies, the responsibility and potential for meeting these goals also lies with every individual and organization. This includes governments, non-profit organizations, and even for-profit businesses, which can be a powerful mechanism for change.
December 9, 2020 | Authored By: Whynde Kuehn
Customer journey insight allows businesses to increase customer satisfaction and loyalty, retain customers, and increase sales. In this Advisor, we make the case for stronger customer involvement, clearer governance, quantification of value, and a sharper focus, as we find these elements are the four main reasons implementations of customer journeys fail.