Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders
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The connections between culture and performance are complex, reciprocal, and anything but obvious. But you need to care about them. The more you care about performance, the more you need to care about culture.
In this Advisor, the author asserts that March's decision making model, maximization, is based on three foundational lies, starting with the idea of the "rational decision maker."
In order to bring a bit of science into the mix to help us understand why we view business architects as gifted in certain areas, along with why we see common challenges, I initiated the global “Business Architect Strengths Study,” a first-of-its-kind. The study was a primary research effort conducted by me and Pete Cafarchio, a certified coach by the International Coaching Federation as well as a Gallup Certified Strengths Champion.
Scrum embodies Agile ways of working and new organizational constructs, but does it consistently deliver the Agile promise of improved performance? Agile Lineout — another metaphor from rugby — is a new approach that uses progressive steps to increase predictability, quality, and delivery efficiency.
This Advisor explores the challenges of LC/NC and the potential benefits for businesses, from simply reducing the IT backlog to serving as a POC for digital transformation.
In a recent webinar, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Mike Rosen explored the circular economy concept, its broad impact on business and operating models, and the role of architects in facilitating the shift to a circular economy. This Advisor shares the Q&A session that followed. Perhaps Mike’s advice will spark some new ideas on how your organization can participate in the circular economy.
This edition of The Cutter Edge discusses the risk management lessons learned from the Texas snowstorm, how micro-fulfillment could be the next big bet that delivers wins for consumer businesses and commercial property owners, and more!
The hype (and chaos) surrounding the concepts of sustainability and the circular economy cannot be denied. In this Executive Update, we look at how an architectural approach can facilitate the adoption of sustainability throughout an enterprise.