There has been discussion in business communities about how to "manage" innovation. I always laugh. You can't manage innovation; you can only support an environment that encourages it.
June 30, 2007 | Authored By: Pollyanna Pixton
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We have always been self-confident here at sd&m and convinced that we are very good, even among the best.
Opening Statement by Christopher Avery
In the chaotic world of IT, frontline leaders sometimes struggle to keep up with the pace
July 6, 2010 | Authored By: Bob Furniss
Collaboration is a key factor in solving many complex problems, including the one we currently face. In fact, collaboration is a new paradigm that is increasingly finding its way into many traditional practices, including the modern corporation, where it has been introduced via horizontal organizations. Horizontal organizations are based on collaboration and trust as their default strategy. This kind of organization increases employee satisfaction and builds higher profits. In this Advisor, we examine how practices such as an open-book management policy (OBM), consent decision making, and a bold profit-sharing policy lead to greater profit and, ultimately, real customer satisfaction.
May 21, 2020 | Authored By: Jorge Silva
Domain
Organizational matters
October 31, 2003 | Authored By: Cutter Business Technology Council
This Executive Update, the final in a four-part series,1 is about negotiating an
October 27, 2010 | Authored By: Kenneth Rau
Who is, and who should be, responsible for carbon management within a corporation?
October 27, 2010 | Authored By: Ralph Cohen
The philosophy is simple: always seek reality. A reality-based plan and reality-based status reports are vital to optimizing performance in your organization.
August 10, 2017 | Authored By: Jo Ellen Moore
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
I once wrote a project plan for a global team with a business challenge of developin
July 22, 2008 | Authored By: David Rasmussen
This issue of CBR focused on a very important and timely topic: enterprise agility. It is also the third issue of CBR to center on agility; these installments looked at agility from various angles: the technical, the strategic, and now the managerial.
March 31, 2008 | Authored By: Gabriele Piccoli
CUTTER BENCHMARK REVIEW VOL. 12, NO. 4
December 3, 2012 | Authored By: Joseph Feller
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
This time of year, whether you want to or not, you have to give some thought to the basic issues of our IT management profession. Things like: Who's paying? How much can the company afford? What technologies does it want? And what is most important?
December 1, 2002 | Authored By: Robert Austin
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