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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This Advisor outlines the makeup of a transformational leadership team, how to form the team, how it can focus its efforts, behaviors, and expectations, and how to convert the themes and horizons established during transformation planning into objectives and key results to ground the change in metrics and reality.
March 18, 2021 | Authored By: Jon Ward
As work and teams strive to be more agile, team diversity boosts resilience by allowing the team to adapt to new missions and changing situations more easily.
December 16, 2021 | Authored By: Robert Ogilvie, Jeffrey McNally
Keynote by Prof. Erin E. Sullivan
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Self-direction doesn’t just happen because you adopt Scrum, Kanban, or another Agile variant. Or because you say “Agile” 20 times to your teams. It needs a fertile space to grow. It needs to be watered and fertilized. It needs an honest and open environment. In far too many cases, this is simply not happening. So, what are the elements of self-directed space? This Advisor explores five that come to mind.
October 21, 2021 | Authored By: Bob Galen
A societal attitude that home and childcare duties should be carried out by women is widespread in many countries. During the
December 23, 2021 | Authored By: Benjamin Duke
In much the same way ”design-for-producibility” is key to successful hardware production, “architect-for-real-ability” is key to capability realization. Everyone involved from the beginning in the specification, development, and operation of a capability needs to perform as, an organized, integrated team.
June 30, 2021 | Authored By: Marc Gewertz
What does “digital” really mean to a company? What makes Agile different from what came before? What are the implications of DevOps and the speed it provides? This article highlights the degree of change required for various heavily impacted functions within the company and the impact of new behaviors that go against decades of habit.
March 25, 2021 | Authored By: Matt Ganis
A recent leap forward in database and analytics technology includes streaming technologies like Apache’s Kafka, which can handle real time and can scale to handle big data movement at extremely low cost, and high-speed, in-memory analytics tools like
February 25, 2021 | Authored By: Vince Kellen
Ensuring that analytics projects create value for the business is easier said than done, and expensive, complex data projects are prime targets for (the wrong kind of) management attention. In this Advisor, we identify the four fundamental requirements for successful analytics projects (sponsor, tools, team, and project/problem). These key attributes can assist project managers in setting priorities.
October 12, 2021 | Authored By: Benjamin Porter
When companies grow beyond a handful of individuals or teams, many changes will affect the organization of work and people. At small scale, and for a limited period of time, a team can organically "remember" its own history. This Advisor explores mechanisms beyond that small scale that encourage learning and sharing across the organization.
October 14, 2021 | Authored By: John Heintz
OEMs have recognized that their current approaches of outsourcing the requisite software and electronics to suppliers and then integrating them in ICE vehicles is not workable for EVs. What's the solution?
June 17, 2021 | Authored By: Robert Charette
Explore the leadership lessons learned by observing four gathered but distant string quartets performing a new 35-minute piece of music collaboratively in various performance settings.
April 8, 2021 | Authored By: Shannon Hessel
Neural networks and other ML model development typically use large amounts of data for training and testing purposes. Because much of this data is historical, there is the risk that the AI models could learn existing prejudices pertaining to gender, race, age, sexual orientation, and other biases. This Advisor explores how the Data & Trust Alliance consortium created an initiative to help end-user organizations evaluate vendors offering AI-based solutions according to their ability to detect, mitigate, and monitor algorithmic bias over the lifecycle of their products.
December 14, 2021 | Authored By: Curt Hall
Creating a business architecture is a sustainable option to design and implement transformation opportunities. Once an organization decides to take this path, it needs to ensure that the journey is smooth. This Advisor identifies
10 mistakes organizations can avoid when starting up the business architecture function.
June 16, 2021 | Authored By: Amit Temurnikar
Noelle Silver focuses on the challenges women of color and other underrepresented groups face in the technology industry at all points along the career continuum. She discusses how hiring and promotion practices aren’t designed to embrace the uniqueness of these women, often resulting in their inability to be given a fair chance at open positions.
October 14, 2021 | Authored By: Noelle Silver
It takes a village and ecosystem to provide all the capabilities found in digital twins. To highlight this challenge, the articles in this issue of CBTJ bring to life the various aspects of digital twins uses and applicability.
February 23, 2021 | Authored By: Ron Zahavi