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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He documents his own experience with his software company to suggest that the historical structure of organizations is outdated and needs to be replaced with a new construct, one with minimal hierarchy and no “bosses.”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
There has been a flurry of attraction in the past year in securing public cloud service providers. Further validating this trend, the author predicts that “the trend across the globe will be to go ‘all in’ on just a handful of hyperscale public cloud providers.” He further asserts that “this concentration of risk will become a focus of attention for those charged with mitigating ‘black swan’ risks to the global economy.”
February 5, 2018 | Authored By: James Mitchell
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
In this Advisor, we look at how teams can lose their coordination and their focus on delivering quality work while at the same time accumulating a significant amount of technical debt. This can be a hard balance to manage: delivering quality outcomes but sacrificing the longer-term success of the team by cutting corners and delaying necessary work until later for the sake of short-term delivery.
September 7, 2016 | Authored By: Gustav Toppenberg
As we cast a glance at the hoards of Internet start-ups filled with 26-year-olds queuing at the doors of venture capital firms, we might wonder if past experience has any value in these crazy times, especially if gained in the prehistoric days of computing
February 29, 2000 | Authored By: Alan MacCormack
In this issue of Amplify, we delve into the intricate connections between blockchain technologies and sustainability, highlighting how transparency, traceability, and decentralization can empower individuals, organizations, and governments to address pressing sustainability issues, from energy grids and sustainable forestry to agri-food ecosystems and regenerative finance. As we explore this dynamic development, it becomes evident that blockchain is not merely a technological innovation: it can serve as a catalyst for transformative change that aligns with the global imperative to create a more sustainable and equitable world.
September 27, 2023 | Authored By: Horst Treiblmaier
It was an odd request, so I rephrased the client's question: "So you're worried that your employees might be copying software to floppies for their personal use?"
October 8, 2002 | Authored By: Jeff Gainer
We use the term "cargo cults" to describe teams whose activities look and feel Agile to the casual observer, and have some of the trappings (e.g., daily stand-ups, periodic planning), but are not supported by a corresponding adherence to Agile principles. Often these teams are simply carrying on as they always did but using the camouflage of Agile terminology to mask the lack of change.
March 31, 2015 | Authored By: Vince Ryan
[From the Editor: This week's Cutter IT Advisor is from Cutter Senior Consultant Dave Rooney's introduction to the October 2014 issue of Cutter IT Journal, "
November 5, 2014 | Authored By: Dave Rooney
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.
October 7, 2020 | Authored By: Kai Karolin Huppe, Nils Niemeier, Michael Kruse
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
Ronald Birk, Lori W. Gordon, and Eleanor Mitch outline the factors behind the need for a system that dynamically updates space supply chain information. Along with higher demand, there is competition among sectors, such as medical device and auto makers, for certain commodities and many rare-earth elements. The authors propose a distributed ledger technology (DLT) system called “Space supply chain Topology for Assessing Risk (STAR)” that would create a nexus for all stakeholders in the space supply chain community. STAR would include trusted partnerships via information-sharing agreements, information wells that let partners leverage an array of structured and unstructured data, a network of cloud-based platforms that enable secure processing of data among partners across the space enterprise, data integrity via DLT, and assessments of priority items to discover weak areas in space supply chains. The article describes the four key risks STAR would identify and calls for community dialogue about a space enterprise solution that “shines a light on dynamically evolving risks.”
February 29, 2024 | Authored By: Ronald Birk, Lori Gordon, Eleanor Mitch
This Advisor looks at how crowds can be used to organize, evaluate, and filter large information spaces. Specifically, let’s look at the way crowds have been leveraged to “make sense of” large product ranges, huge media databases, and the Web itself.
January 9, 2017 | Authored By: Joseph Feller