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Sridhar Deenadayalan offers a playbook in the form of five keys to a successful technology project. The strength of this article lies in its two-step approach to failure management. Problems are identified, then followed by specific actions, or “keys to success,” to address them.
Anjali Kaushik attempts to unfold the mystery of failed technology projects, with her examination dropping into the trenches. Her analysis is anything but conventional. She begins by looking at the necessity and meaning of process redesign. Kaushik’s advice to match technology projects to complementary assets and capabilities is especially helpful.
Mitigating the risks of developing and deploying SaaS carries with it similar challenges to on-premises implementations. In this Advisor, we highlight six lessons learned.
Will legacy and new auto manufacturing entrants be nimble and resilient enough to adapt their business models as the industry shifts to EVs? How can AI be used to detect or even prevent a wildfire occurrence? Find out in this latest edition of The Cutter Edge!
Replicating best practice across business units is fundamental to improving innovation performance, but research shows that it happens far less than expected. Learn why this happens — and how businesses can overcome the challenge.
Enterprise agility is created by looking at value streams and optimizing them end to end. This Advisor explores how value streams work, how customer value is created, and how to remove obstacles to customer value creation.
This Advisor explores how business architecture stakeholder mapping can assist a healthy circular economy implementation by specifying the value stream scenarios where different stakeholders extract value propositions across a value cycle, enabling the cycle to start and be sustained.
This Executive Update first reviews cloud basics then looks at lessons learned from past on-premises development and deployment applications and how these apply to SaaS. It then examines some additional challenges SaaS brings to organizations, including the underlying reasons why SaaS projects can fail.