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.
A MATTER OF TIMING
When he announced the end of his sitcom Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld observed, "For me, this is all about timing. My life is all about timing. As a comedian, my sense of timing is everything" [5].
You've just inherited a three-year, million-dollar project. Problem is, it's a year behind schedule and a quarter million in the hole, and you are asked to complete it within budget and a year ahead of schedule.
The convergence of the Internet and information and communications technology (ICT) has increased customer connectivity, information access, and awareness about products and services.
In Part I of this two-part Executive Update series on business architecture and sustainability, we provide an overview of the circular economy and the strategic challenges it presents and demonstrate how business architecture provides the means for a formal, robust transition to the circular economy.
This article presents an interview with Michael Marus, conducted by Cutter Expert Curt Hall and Guest Editor Horst Treiblmaier. Marus is CIO and director of IT at the Forest Stewardship Council, an organization governed by a global network of more than 1,000 individuals and member organizations with the mission to protect forests worldwide. It has been testing and applying blockchain since 2021 to enable sustainability with forest-based materials and has found that blockchain’s traceability helps it achieve integrity and credibility for its certification system. Marus provides exciting details about the organization’s practical experiences and offers his outlook on how blockchain might provide further value in the future.
Mining and Sharing Best Practices: The Microsoft Approach to Winning the MIS Market
by John Schindler, Keith Savage, and Joyce Statz
As corporate IT groups turn from mainframes to networked component-based systems, and from proprietary to commodity hardwa
At some level, everyone understands that spending all of your time and resources focusing solely on what you already have or do will eventually leave you behind the curve when the "next