The key members from the technology group are waiting to hear about the new project that the director is going to announce. The meeting is about to begin, and the room is filled with silence.
Working with business leaders, we have developed a simple yet powerful framework to help them navigate the digital landscape. It is based on four business-focused questions that are at the core of effective governance of digital and that every business leader should have in his or her head. We call these questions the four “ares.” In this Advisor, we discuss two of the “ares.”
Recently, we described the application of Scrum at Riccardo’s Restaurant in London. This environment is similar to that of Lean hardware Scrum, in that shifts are repeatedly creating and delivering products in short cycles with high quality. Process efficiency and cycle time become the key metrics for production.
Given all the buzz surrounding Facebook and Twitter, social networking applications have the potential to be viewed as just the latest Web 2.0 fad. However, social networking applications are neither new nor a fad.
It is largely axiomatic that a company in any high-tech industry increases its value by expanding and appropriately protecting its base of documented, formalized intellec
In recent years, the significant increase in the intensity of natural disasters such as tsunamis, earthquakes, and floods has led to a corresponding increase in the number of communication and intelligent systems supporting the coordination, situ
The Balanced Approach
Philosophy
IT outsourcing continues to be a popular course of action for streamlining businesses. These arrangements always include measurements of performance and productivity improvement. The questions that we should be asking are: