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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Dave Garrett and Ian Duncan offer a robust framework from PMI regarding citizen development (CD), which aims to help companies build business apps, build capability, support CD, and scale across the organization. The authors also review the benefits of CD, with separate categories for organizations, IT, and individuals. Finally, they provide three case studies showing a problem, a solution, and an outcome from real-world CD projects.
Jacek Chmiel provides a reality check on citizen development, pointing out that rather than digital natives, it’s digital-era employees who have the most to gain from digital transformation technology, often starting with no code and moving into the low-code environment of their choice. Chmiel suggests two solutions to the issue of poor flexibility in these platforms: having deep knowledge of the platform and/or augmenting with hard-core code. He also tackles the issues of IT security and vendor lock-in and then looks at the future of low-code.
Ronan Hughes says low-code/no-code can be viewed as a low-risk/no-regrets approach to organizational transformation. He describes how citizen development (CD) can improve IT delivery and speed strategic development and operations and then goes into detail about the opportunities CD offers to the business, IT, and combined business/IT applications.
Noel Carroll et al. outline several digital transformation challenges, illustrate how citizen development addresses them, and offer seven recommendations for those planning such an initiative.
Explore the leadership lessons learned by observing four gathered but distant string quartets performing a new 35-minute piece of music collaboratively in various performance settings.
As the fourth installment in the series “Ingredients for Enterprise Agility,” this Advisor explores how a transformation team can create and maintain momentum by mobilizing volunteers, walking the board, applying the pickup sticks model, and creating an evidence board.
This edition of The Cutter Edge explores strategies for strengthening inclusion in the workplace, identifies how leaders can help HR management improve employee well-being, and more!
For years, businesses have been operating in a world that has become riskier and increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA). With the emergence of COVID-19, the past year has catapulted that risk, upending social, political, and economic structures in ways previously unimagined. In this Advisor, we take a closer look at some of the challenges that employees and leaders face in this increasingly VUCA world.