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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

Why There’s Probably No Such Thing as Digital Architecture

Barry M. O’Reilly calls on us to rise above the hype, myth, and storytelling that have created the concept we call “digital architecture.” He proposes that the concept is part of an ongoing storytelling process that we as humans use to understand and navigate our world; digital architecture isn’t a real thing, it’s just part of a story to help us find our path. O’Reilly cautions against adherence to dogma and the slavish belief that copy-and-paste frameworks can solve our problems. He counsels that we should recognize that we are in an infinitely repeating cycle of hype.
November 22, 2019 | Authored By: Barry M O'Reilly

Escape the Agile Bubble & Bring Back Productivity

Agile has picked up a number of misconceptions, offshoots, and antipatterns as the world has figured out how to make it effective in different environments. Jacek Chmiel examines potential biases and the impacts they have on how Agile and DevOps show up in our organizations, helping us reflect on how we might reimagine various aspects and break out of our old ways of thinking.
March 25, 2021 | Authored By: Jacek Chmiel

Overcoming the Obstacles to Achieving Agility and Delivering Business Value

I strongly believe that adopting a particular methodology is not the answer. Rather, organizations need to fix their internal structure and the way they operate. In this article, I will discuss the challenges hindering agility and also the bottlenecks that prevent organizations from delivering business value. I focus on six phenomena that make any organization rigid, illustrating them with real-life case studies.
March 31, 2015 | Authored By: Venkatesh Krishnamurthy

Bad Faith Technology

In this article, I will try to expand upon the last clause of Kranzberg’s First Law of Technology: “Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.” Those who claim technology is ethically neutral tend to focus attention on the underlying processes, to the exclusion of the original motivation. While I lean in this direction, I recognize that bad actor/bad faith technology provides an important exception.
June 2, 2016 | Authored By: Hal Berghel

How Metadata Can Drive the Move from Data Warehousing to Digital Business

Pat O’Sullivan starts from the premise that the principles of standardization and conformity that were developed for the data warehouse are equally applicable to a digital business to deliver a consistent view of information to many lines of business. He explores the characteristics of a system of common metadata that can define the links between an existing data warehouse and an emerging digital business, describing the components and characteristics of this new metadata layer and how it is essential to fueling the growth of the AI capabilities of a digital business.
October 23, 2018 | Authored By: Pat OSullivan

Leadership Development: Intuition, Science, or Luck?

  No one lacks an opinion on the subject of good leadership. Leadership seminars devote days to the discussion of theories, case studies, and war stories. Strategies and tactics that work in one setting, however, may fall flat in another.
March 19, 2012 | Authored By: Richard Houston

Scaling Agile Data Warehousing

In the end, the success or failure of your implementation of Agile data warehousing at scale starts and ends with your leadership. Leaders with a unquenchable thirst for knowledge combined with a kaizen mindset have a distinct advantage when it comes to putting theory into practice. As a leader, you must carve time out of your hectic schedule to learn about both the methodologies you aspire to use and the system in which your organization operates. Not a client? Download your complimentary copy here.
January 30, 2014 | Authored By: Em Campbell Pretty

Taming the COVID-19 Black Swan Using the Three New Normals Framework

Yesha Sivan and Yonatan Rabinovitch discuss how to manage “black swans” crises with what they propose as the Three New Normals (3NN) framework. The authors explicitly state that the 3NN framework “was designed as a flexible descriptive framework, allowing for optimism, pessimism, or realism.” It focuses on how digital leaders can navigate sea changes.
July 23, 2020 | Authored By: Yesha Sivan, Yonatan Rabinovitch

Toward Good Open Data Governance

This article describes what good governance means for public sector institutions that are embracing open data initiatives. While these organizations make data accessible to increase government transparency and promote economic empowerment, they face addi­tional responsibilities in terms of data quality, privacy compliance, security, and more.
October 3, 2018 | Authored By: Yves Vanderbeken, Tim Huygh, Anant Joshi, Steven De Haes

Innovative Leadership: Leading Post-Pandemic & Beyond

The authors suggest that although none of us would choose a 10-year-old computer for our work today, many executives persist in using outdated leadership models and behaviors. They say leaders who want to elevate their capabilities must start by knowing why they lead, then update their behavioral algorithm using the Innovative Leadership framework.
June 20, 2022 | Authored By: Erin Barry, Neil Grunberg, Maureen Metcalf, Carla Morelli, Michael MorrowFox

Infusing Leader Character into Workplace DEI Practices

Natacha Prudent and Mary Crossan propose embedding leader character into organizations, asserting that the sustainability of DEI efforts depends on leaders reaffirming their commitment to character, suggesting it as a foundational element for both organizations and DEI initiatives: “corporate DNA.” The authors underscore the financial benefits of gender and ethnic diversity in leadership roles and use the Ivey Leader Character Framework (ILCF) as a tool aimed to guide leaders in introspection and development, emphasizing the role of character in driving comprehensive, sustainable change in DEI.
January 29, 2024 | Authored By: Natacha Prudent, Mary Crossan

Enabling Successful EA Governance with an Architecture Review Board

This article tackles the how-to of architecture governance. Mohan Babu K provides a veritable cookbook, chock full of frameworks and matrices, to help enterprises think through the various aspects of setting up an architecture review board, which is one of the most important components of architecture governance. Along the way, he draws out lessons from an actual implementation that he carried out for his company. If you are looking to set up or review your architecture review board, this article provides valuable guidance.
February 28, 2015 | Authored By: Mohan Babu K

Buffet-Style Architecture: The New World of Public Self-Governance

Mark Greville proposes an alternative to the command-and-control theater that is governance (particularly technology governance) in most large organizations. He offers examples of business-model-assassinating decisions from previous generations and lays out a path toward a scalable, sustainable, useful governance approach that avoids the bureaucracy typically associated with governance. The article explores decision dynamics and proposes the method of public self-governance to break up complex governance structures, eliminate governance body queues, accelerate change, and drive accountability and transparency via a modern, decentralized approach.
November 22, 2019 | Authored By: Mark Greville

How Culture Affects Leadership

The articles in this Cutter Business Technology Journal (formerly titled Cutter IT Journal) present differing views about what makes a good leader, but there is one common thread. The success of an IT organization is directly affected by the kind of leader you are -- and the kind of leaders you develop. (Not a member? Download your complimentary copy here.)
February 28, 2010 | Authored By: Martin Bauer

The Journey to Solution Focus

One of the most exciting ideas percolating through the Agile community is “solutions-focused” thinking, advancing through micro changes. In the next piece, Géry Derbier and Soledad Pinter tell stories of using solutions-focused thinking over several years, in the large — across an organization — and in the small — at the single-person and single-team level.
April 22, 2019 | Authored By: Gery Derbier, Soledad Pinter

From Profit to Purpose: Architecting the Purpose Economy

Coro Strandberg urges us to radically reimagine the purpose of business. She calls for “social purpose” and blueprints the purpose economy. The article offers multiple strategies (identifying, consulting, and engaging the social purpose community; deploying purpose economy levers of change; and providing tools and resources for the business community and ecosystem actors) that can help regions and nations begin the process of architecting the purpose economy. Strandberg showcases the Canadian Purpose Economy Project, which aims to accelerate Canada’s transition to the purpose economy and explains how ecosystem builders can help social purpose companies start, transition, thrive, and grow.
September 9, 2024 | Authored By: Coro Strandberg
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