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Blockchain in Smart City Administration: A Look at OrgBook

Magesh Kasthuri discusses how city administration can use blockchain. He provides various insights into decentralized architecture, including its technology benefits and security implementation. The article highlights a need for self-healing and auto-scaling services within a smart city architecture, which can be achieved by a blockchain network based on HyperLedger Fabric in a cloud environment. Blockchain can make cities more efficient and more resilient and adds greater transparency and security to a city’s digital processes. Applying DLT technologies in smart cities is an opportunity to reshape many aspects of how cities are organized and managed in order to better serve their citizens.
January 7, 2020 | Authored By: Magesh Kasthuri

Remixing the Music Industry with DAOs

Diego Alvarez, Pietro Cortellini, and Emily Munchak invite readers to look at DAOs through the lens of the music industry. The authors investigated three DAOs: Audius, BitSong, and MODA DAO, which aim to disrupt their market. The study differentiates between DAOs driven primarily by economic incentives from those focused on social incentives and highlights five dimensions that characterize all DAOs: purpose, community, technology, tokens, and governance. The study focuses on DAOs from the music industry, but the authors offer generalized insights for other industries.
November 9, 2022 | Authored By: Diego Alvarez, Pietro Cortellini, Emily Munchak

Digital Shift in Value Creation: Social Computing Model for Human Needs Fulfillment

Athula Ginige and Marie D. Fernando look at the idea of value creation in the digital shift era. In particular, their interest lies in how current Web- and mobile-based applications support what they term the “social computing” model, a new computing paradigm that stands apart from preceding computing paradigms. Their article presents a model for human needs fulfillment, which helps organizations map out their digital value-creation process and reveals the underlying information flow pattern required to secure trust.
March 4, 2020 | Authored By: Athula Ginige, Marie Fernando

Knowledge Graphs: Harnessing Data to Improve Decision Making & Boost Efficiency

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

Will Policy Makers Stifle the DAO Revolution?

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

Exploring the Full Implications of Digital Transformation

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

The Best Project Ever

This is a story about developing software, getting things done, and delighting customers. It turns out that the heart of the story is one that embodies Agile principles.
October 30, 2014 | Authored By: Glenn Waters

What Every Business Leader Should Know and Do About Digital

Our research and consulting reveal that CEOs and their CxO colleagues play a pivotal role in determining whether or not their organizations exploit the innovative opportunities provided by digital technologies. Creating and sustaining value from digital investments requires the CEO’s focused attention and oversight. CEOs set the tone, and their active participation determines whether their organizations optimize a return from any spending on IT. Most CEOs don’t seem to understand this or quite know what they should do. 
February 8, 2017 | Authored By: Joe Peppard, John Thorp

Quantum Software Ecosystem Governance

Guido Peterssen and José Luis Hevia focus on the operational and organizational dimensions of quantum computing. They provide a compelling call to action: without robust governance, quantum computing projects will likely spiral into unmanageable complexity. Through a detailed case study of Bizkaia Quantum Advanced Industries (BIQAIN), the authors introduce the concept of the private quantum hub as a model for resource coordination, lifecycle management, and cost control across distributed quantum infrastructures.
May 19, 2025 | Authored By: Guido Peterssen Nodarse, Jose Luis Hevia

How Lean Management Systems Can Enable Agile at Scale

This article shows how Agile is attempting to scale from a small, inwardly focused, team-based set of tools to an organizationally inclusive set of tools. The article asserts that Lean is a necessary adjunct to Agile ideas in order to operate at scale, particularly the Lean concept of the value stream. (Not a client? Download your complimentary copy of this article now.)
June 30, 2015 | Authored By: Steve Bell

Green Methods for Managing IT Projects

It's been increasingly evident over the past three to four years that "going green" is a business movement that is here to stay -- partly out of necessity as businesses struggle with increasing costs from fuel and energy. But also partly out of having an environmental conscious.
May 31, 2011 | Authored By: Brad Egeland

Aligning EA with Digital Transformation

If your enterprise architecture (EA) program is not engaged in digital transformation, I offer some advice that comes from successful cases where an EA program overcame the situation that had it sidelined and was brought in to an already running digital transformation.
November 4, 2020 | Authored By: Avinash Malik

“All In” with Public Cloud for 2018

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

Leveraging Business Architecture for Global Change

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
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