Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders
Leadership and teaming skills are front and center in times of rapid change. Meet today’s constant disruption head on with expert guidance in leadership, business strategy, transformation, and innovation. Whether the disruption du jour is a digitally-driven upending of traditional business models, the pandemic-driven end to business as usual, or the change-driven challenge of staffing that meets your transformation plans—you’ll be prepared with cutting edge techniques and expert knowledge that enable strategic leadership.
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Citizen development promises to improve enterprise productivity and accelerate value delivery, enabling organizations to achieve outcomes more quickly. This Advisor presents seven key recommendations for organizations undergoing or planning to pursue a digital transformation and adopt a citizen development (CD) initiative.
The move from conventional computing to quantum computing won’t be like a simple change in technology providers. Quantum processors use a wholly new way of solving complex problems; as we explore in this Advisor, that requires a new way of thinking about problems. Software programs designed for conventional computers aren’t going to work.
Executive Report
Greening IT: Need & Opportunities
More than a decade ago, Cutter Consortium introduced the concept of green IT in an Executive Report and outlined IT’s role in creating a sustainable environment. The topic has become all the more important and relevant today. In this Report, we provide an updated, holistic view of greening IT and how we can — and should — embrace IT to address the environmental challenges we face.
Executive Summary
Greening IT: Need & Opportunities — Executive Summary
The accompanying Executive Report, an update to a previous Report, outlines IT’s environmental impacts, discusses three key facets of green IT, and shows how we can go green with our IT systems and applications. The Report highlights opportunities for IT-enabled solutions and assistance to better sustain and manage our environment and presents useful insights to help make smart green IT decisions.
The next decade in the auto industry will be intriguing to watch as the risk-reward equation between electric vehicles and internal combustion engine vehicles continually shifts. New strategic inflection points can be expected to emerge as both battery and IT improve, with the latter allowing the software-defined car to become an everyday reality.
In this Advisor, Jon Ward outlines how learning is blocked by Agile certifications and explains that teams must understand Agile theory to improve continuously. He recommends developing in-house training capabilities as a more effective approach to learning.
Advisor
Solving the Right Problem
Knowing the competitive environment of your company, division, department, or unit is the first step in ensuring you're solving the right problems. This Advisor explores four styles of competitive environments — classical, adaptive, shaping, and visionary — and provides guidance on determining which styles best fit your current situation.
As the pandemic unwinds, what lasting lessons can companies carry from the moments of “What now?” to successfully respond to “What’s next?” What makes the journey toward AI ethics so difficult? Get answers to these questions and more in this issue of The Cutter Edge.