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Corporate Boards: Navigating Decision-Making & Priorities in Complex Times

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

Decoding Space Waste: Awareness, Concern, Action

Victor Heaulme takes a look at the space waste problem through a technology lens. He notes that the Kessler Syndrome (i.e., orbit overpopulation leading to object/satellite collisions that greatly affect space access) is becoming increasingly possible. Along with policy making, Heaulme describes technologies for more accurate tracking of space objects of all sizes, monitoring software that automates collision warnings, and technology that remotely removes objects in orbit. These include two systems that cause decaying orbits, one that uses a specialized satellite to push space objects and one that moves objects into a different orbit from Earth.
February 28, 2024 | Authored By: Victor Heaulme

Strategic Risk Management for the Adoption of BaaS

Tim Virtue focuses on the most significant risks of BaaS. He identifies common BaaS risks and proposes mitigation strategies for all of them. Virtue stresses that adoption of innovative business models is essential for new market entrants. In the build-versus-buy debate, he favors buy, although stresses that the BaaS provider should be a trusted partner, not simply a commodity supplier. Despite the significant risks involved in digital trans­formation adoption, doing nothing is the greatest risk of all. 
January 7, 2020 | Authored By: Timothy Virtue

5 Guidelines for Holistic DAO Governance

Based on broad domain knowledge and first-hand experiences with launching DAOs, Thomas Belkowski and Lukas Falcke share their insights into holistic DAO governance. They provide five guidelines for prospective DAO founders on how to develop governance mechanisms that can enable thriving DAOs. Although these general guidelines apply to a range of DAOs, the authors warn against applying a one-size-fits-all approach to DAO governance.
November 9, 2022 | Authored By: Thomas Belkowski, Lukas Falcke

Blockchain Data Analytics: (In)visibility in Distributed Networks

Iweta Laskowska explains some of the myths around blockchain, such as anonymity, transparency, and privacy. She guides the reader to an understanding of what anonymity in peer-to-peer networks means and introduces the concept of “de-anonymization of transaction history,” which involves the identification of the real-world identities of contractors (senders and recipients), as well as the value that is sent. As Laskowska suggests, “The involvement of third parties in the management and authentication of transactions is expensive and time-consuming. Distributed public networks reduce the need for central authorities and eliminate the ‘single point of failure.’” This ultimately allows for greater participation in decision making.
December 16, 2019 | Authored By: Iweta Laskowska

What Public Sector Entities Can Learn from Airport Innovation During the Pandemic

Repeated Amplify contributor Ralph Menzano posits that airports can be viewed as microcosms of cities and, as such, offer important lessons to public sector entities around the world. Specifically, emulating the strategies used by airports during the pandemic could help municipalities and others become more resilient. Airport leaders moved quickly to shut down terminals and gates, adjust flight schedules and staffing, and change parking systems — then pivoted to delivering vaccines and medical supplies rather than passengers. Leaders also made sure they were ready to resume expansion plans and hit revised passenger targets as soon as restrictions eased. Menzano points to strategies and technologies other public sector entities could benefit from, including sustainable programs (airports are adopting electric vehicles to transport passengers and luggage and deploying goat herds to maintain dense scrub vegetation), virtual assistants to help customers navigate complex websites, and personnel programs that simultaneously promote equity and diversity.
May 31, 2023 | Authored By: Ralph Menzano

How AI Could Reshape the Boardroom

David F. Larcker, Amit Seru, Brian Tayan, and Laurie Yoler explore how AI could reshape boardrooms by enhancing the volume, quality, and timeliness of information available to directors. AI can reduce information asymmetry, support predictive analysis, and enable real-time scenario planning. These tools help boards become more proactive and better prepared for meetings. However, the authors caution that greater access to information may blur the line between governance and operations, requiring executives to manage directors’ deeper involvement carefully.
July 15, 2025 | Authored By: David Larcker, Amit Seru, Brian Tayan, Laurie Yoler

Exploring Digital Twin Potential for Energy & Defense

Jason Radel explores the application of a digital twin framework for the ingestion, application, and visualization of digital twins and the integration of light detection and ranging data, photographs and scans, and other engineering documents. The article includes case studies from the energy and defense sectors, demonstrating how such an approach can be used in managing digital twins in different industries.
April 30, 2023 | Authored By: Jason Radel

What Should a CIO Consider When Running a Cloud RFP?

As the cloud market has grown up, CIOs are now in a position to rely on a modern, robust ecosystem of cloud computing vendors to deliver efficiencies and cost savings at scale. To do this, however, the role of the CIO demands an understanding of how to build and subsequently manage that supply chain when deciding to procure infrastructure as a service. This article discusses how the CIO, ahead of launching an RFP, should prepare for the challenge of coordinating multiple, competing IaaS service offerings to establish the type of mature supply chain more commonly found in established utilities markets.
November 10, 2015 | Authored By: James Mitchell, Frank Khan Sullivan

Character Leadership at the Intersection of Business, Purpose & Sustainability

Kimberley Young Milani explores the intersection of leadership, business, purpose, and sustainability in the contemporary world. She emphasizes the need for leaders to embody both competence and character. The article also looks at the intersection of character and organizational purpose, warning that without character, an organization’s purpose might become a hollow slogan or facade.
December 20, 2023 | Authored By: Kimberley Young Milani

Analytics Can Grow on You — In a Good Way

Ben Porter uses several case studies to show how organizations have made progress in amplifying the value of analytics by demonstrating three actions: recognizing how value is created, focusing on delivering that value, and understanding the changes that must be adopted to ensure long-term value. He describes the four fundamental requirements for successful analytics projects (sponsor, tools, team, and project/problem) and closes with the critical assertion that value creation from analytics requires teamwork between IT, business, and analytics professionals.
June 22, 2021 | Authored By: Benjamin Porter

How to Stop Making Decisions in the Dark

Decision making is greatly aided by visual systems because we can't ignore a huge physical artifact that is showing us a need for change or action. In this article, Jim Benson looks at the kanban board as a tool to see work and gain insights into how to make work better.
September 30, 2014 | Authored By: Jim Benson

Two Sides of the Same Coin: Using Culture and Structure to Build Agile Organizations

Jesse Fewell discusses the debate between proponents of a “culture-first” approach to Agile transformation and those who favor a “structure-first” strategy. He describes the pitfalls of each and makes the case that Agile adoption succeeds best when leaders “encourage a conversation that incorporates both perspectives.” He offers three tips for bridging the divide, then introduces the Agile Leadership Canvas.
October 3, 2017 | Authored By: Jesse Fewell

3D Printing & the Future of Space Exploration

Curt Hall takes a look at the role 3D printing can have in space exploration. From Earth-based manufacturing of spacecraft parts to tools like wrenches on the International Space Station and metal parts during a Mars mission, space could be 3D printing’s killer app. Hall discusses a large number of technologies in development, including the ability to convert plastic waste from previously printed parts into feedstock that can be used to create new tools and parts. Similarly, there are projects underway to see if the Moon’s regolith can be used to construct the (literal) building blocks for a moon base. Printing food, medicine, and even replacement organs for long-haul space missions is also being explored using bioprinting, a technology that could come full circle to provide tissue-based patches for the outside of damaged hearts here on Earth.
February 29, 2024 | Authored By: Curt Hall

Surprising Challenges When Trying Agile Company-Wide

The Agile Manifesto and its obvious extensions don’t address issues needed at the organizational level. In their article, Jutta Eckstein and John Buck augment Agile with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space, and Sociocracy, something they call “BOSSA nova,” and link those with strategy, structure, and process to cover key organizational issues.
April 22, 2019 | Authored By: Jutta Eckstein, John Buck

The Chicken or the Egg … Who Goes FIRST in Agility?

Bob Galen picks up on this issue's evolution theme and goes back to basics. When pursuing Agile, which comes first: the chicken or the egg? Clearly not making breakfast, Galen takes aim at whether teams or leadership “goes Agile” first. He gives us a taste for what it must look like to have teams come first and what seasonings to pepper leadership with so that leadership and teams can be “Agile-y” effective together.
April 29, 2020 | Authored By: Bob Galen

Why Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Must Be a Strategic Priority

This piece by Viola Maxwell-Thompson outlines a clear case for diversity, equity, and inclusion as a strategic priority. The author begins with a declarative proposition as she describes the next decade’s horizon and the expected growth in computer and mathematical occupations. She acknowledges the committed efforts of corporations that have recommitted themselves toward gender and ethnic diversity, yet demonstrates the lagging percentage of women, the lesser percentage of women of color, and, further still, the stagnant representation of Black and Brown professionals in senior roles.
November 4, 2020 | Authored By: Viola Maxwell Thompson

CEO Humility, Narcissism & Competitive Advantage

William Spangler delves into how CEOs’ humility and narcissism influence their behavior, focusing on dysfunctional behavior like fraud, crime, corruption, and bribery. With a sample of 190 CEOs and data collected from interviews and public sources, Spangler introduces a set of diverse CEO archetypes. The article differentiates between professional CEOs and entrepreneurial CEOs. Spangler describes how humility and narcissism can coexist in CEOs and shows how humility moderates narcissistic tendencies, reducing the propensity to engage in dysfunctional and negative leader behaviors.
January 29, 2024 | Authored By: William Spangler
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