We all know about the demand on IT resources and the resulting need to ensure that the projects we work on are business-justified.
November 21, 2000 | Authored By: Pamela Hollington
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Lila Rajabion provides four examples of how KGs can help leaders advance their understanding of the business environment in which their company sits. These include merging data silos to create a company overview across divisions, connecting different types of data in meaningful ways, aiding informed decision making by narrowing searches and contextualizing information, and showing interconnections that help leaders gain perspective. Next, she dives into how Google, LinkedIn, eBay, and IBM are using KGs and explains how other companies could follow suit. She then addresses four challenges currently faced by companies looking to leverage KGs, followed by a look at specific business efficiencies enabled by KGs, including making data more accessible for employees, helping leaders make data-driven decisions, and assisting companies in deploying AI technology.
August 10, 2022 | Authored By: Lila Rajabion
Successful organizations know that no matter how good the technology, it is the people who make it work. When people come first, customers win.
July 26, 2017 | Authored By: Bob Furniss
For the past few years, risk management has been a hot topic, and I would hope by now that every project manager has had some indoctrination regarding the importance of managing risks.
October 6, 1999 | Authored By: Kathleen Peters
I attended my son's graduation from college yesterday. That should be an unqualified joyous celebration, except my son graduated in engineering from Virginia Tech University, in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
May 15, 2007 | Authored By: Dwayne Phillips
This issue of Amplify features a collection of articles that explore how boards can evolve beyond conventional roles to become active stewards of long-term value — drawing on leader character, data and analytics, behavioral insight, structural design, and strategic engagement.
July 14, 2025 | Authored By: Mirko Benischke
Andriy Rozhdestvensky, Sofiya Opatska, and Gerard Seijts (coauthor of Character: What Contemporary Leaders Can Teach Us About Building a More Just, Prosperous, and Sustainable Future) move us to extraordinary purpose, counting up to the 1,000 days of Ukraine’s resistance to the 2022 Russian invasion. “How can societal leaders come to terms with the damage inflicted on them and then make the substantive shift of returning to a peacetime leadership approach equipped to rebuild and regenerate the country?” the authors ask. The article features hard-won insights from five resilient Ukrainian leaders (from parliament, the armed forces, church, business, the not-for-profit sector, and academia) who open up about their journey to, and undeniable power of, existential purpose.
Lucy Frew highlights the current predicaments of DAOs from a legal and regulatory perspective. The article explores the challenges that DAOs present to the legal structures of organizations as we know them. Overall, DAOs aim at decentralization, but the degree of decentralization varies over time and has critical implications for the accountability of its members: the token holders. Frew discusses the existing regulatory landscape of DAOs and looks at the circumstances under which a DAO might benefit from seeking legal status.
November 9, 2022 | Authored By: Lucy Frew
Despite what slick brochures and vendor representatives will tell you, not all tests can be automated.
September 4, 2001 | Authored By: Jeff Gainer
In the entirety of a project, there is one second that is often the determining factor. That is the second between an observation and a reaction.1
November 20, 2007 | Authored By: Dwayne Phillips
The day of catastrophe in the information era is approaching. Companies as well as government agencies are investing enormous amounts of money for the soft landing of computer-controlled systems in the next century.
November 3, 1998 | Authored By: Tomoo Matsubara
An old saying reminds us, "Be careful of what you wish for; you may actually get it." One example of this in IT development organizations is the "virtual team" -- a project team whose members physically" belong to other parts of the company or to outsourcin
May 5, 1998 | Authored By: Ed Yourdon
Systematic, repeated breakthrough innovation often poses a challenge to large companies because it is inherently risky and frequently requires competencies and approaches that divert from the mainstream of the organization. In many large companies, internal bureaucracy and red tape tend to stifle the required creativity, and internal R&D teams may struggle to think sufficiently “outside the box.” Creating a stand-alone, semi-independent breakthrough team focused on step-out/adjacent opportunities or grand challenges is a common first step that companies take to address these barriers.
October 17, 2018 | Authored By: Richard Eagar, Max Senechal, Michael Kolk, Tim Barder, Mitch Beaumont, Kurt Baes
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
Here is a management technique I've found useful when evaluating the performance of my employees.
July 20, 1999 | Authored By: Luke Hohmann
When you introduce Agile into existing organizations, you regularly get two types of seemingly conflicting results if you ask for employee satisfaction. First you get the satisfaction boost.
March 25, 2015 | Authored By: Jens Coldewey