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Devops: A Software Revolution in the Making?

According to Guest Editor Patrick DeBois, "Only by providing positive results to the business and management can IT reverse its bad reputation and become a reliable partner again. In order to do that, we need to break through blockers in our thought process, and devops invites us to challenge traditional organizational barriers. The days of top-down control are over -- devops is a grass-roots movement similar to other horizontal revolutions, such as Facebook. The role of management is changing: no longer just directive, it is taking a more supportive role, unleashing the power of the people on the floor to achieve awesome results."
August 24, 2011 | Authored By: Patrick Debois

How Intelligent Are You, Emotionally Speaking?

From time to time, we have all experienced the frustration associated with managing an individual or a team not performing up to its capabilities or to our expectations. A project is overbudget, or the software deliverable is late again.
April 30, 2008 | Authored By: Diane Allen

Where Impactful Visioning Comes In

When cultivating great innovation teams, impactful visioning addresses the central need for purpose, the strategic foresight for leveraging emotional intelligence, the balancing of goals and mission, and mindfully organizing the teams. This Advisor explores the role of impactful visioning on innovation teams.
July 15, 2021 | Authored By: Robert Ogilvie, Jeffrey McNally

Managing Differences: The Critical 21st-Century Management Skill, 2nd Edition

The critical 20th-century management skill — making things and people fit into systems that execute efficiently — will inevitably be transcended by a different 21st-century critical management skill: creating the conditions in which people of widely varying backgrounds, behaviors, and inclinations can maximize their particular contributions to economic value. This is certainly happening in most firms in developed economies, yet most managers (especially IT managers) have not yet come to grips with it. With this Executive Report, we move away from our usual format and revisit an "ahead of the curve" Council Opinion by the Cutter Business Technology Council, which highlights what has now become a major corporate movement.
September 1, 2015 | Authored By: Robert Austin, Lynne Ellyn, Tom DeMarco, Mark Seiden, Lou Mazzucchelli, Ronald Blitstein, Tim Lister

Cultivating Leadership Throughout the IT Organization — Opening Statement

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: Bob Furniss

The Critical Need for Data Governance — Opening Statement

While issues around data and information governance are starting to get the attention they deserve, business and technology leaders still need help finding their way through all the conflicting demands. We invited several authors to present their perspectives and recommendations on this complex web of issues.
October 3, 2018 | Authored By: Claude Baudoin

Traditional Organizations & the Analytics Maturity Curve

Avishan Bodjnoud highlights the typical challenges of skill sets, data literacy, data governance, process, resources, and senior leadership buy-in that affect most traditional organizations. She explains why organizations that simply establish a standalone analytics entity and expect immediate results are often disappointed. Bodjnoud closes with an important discussion on the need to understand the reasons for resistance to change and then manage them — critical elements of any analytics project or digital transformation effort.
June 22, 2021 | Authored By: Avishan Bodjnoud

Reimagining Leadership & Teams — Opening Statement

The team is an integral unit of work. Yes, there has always been romantic talk of the superstar, the super-programmer, the one who can outperform a team of 10 mediocre developers, but if you truly watched our world for many years, then it is clear that delivery of the real work is done by teams. In some cases, it comes from teams of teams. And that is why teams are worth studying and are good grounds for discussion; they are fascinating — hence, the reason for this issue of Amplify.
March 18, 2022 | Authored By: Tim Lister

Purpose-Driven Systems Change

How far forward can hardship take purpose-driven leaders? Lara Liboni, Luciana O. Cezarino, Alessandro Goulart, Vera Goulart, and Rafael Petry offer a real-life case of success created from adversity. Before there was a solution, they tell us, there was a problem. This problem was so big, they insist, that it instigated purpose, which then inspired many stakeholders to partner for “Symbiotic Impact.” Unlike serendipity, where chance encounters enabled previously unimagined opportunities, the Symbiosis Project carefully crafted first-of-their-kind collaborations to systematically undo barriers keeping marginalized youth from accessing higher education and being employed in competitive sectors.
September 30, 2024 | Authored By: Lara Liboni, Luciana Cezarino, Alessandro Goulart, Vera Goulart, Rafael Petry
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