Tag: Best Practices

Agentic AI brings a subtle but consequential shift in how software is architected and delivered. Instead of organizing around applications or microservices, IT departments—together with end users—now develop automated workflows. The agents that implement these workflows may communicate with other agents as part of a more complex, orchestrated group of workflows. But the basic unit […]

  “The speed of typing out code has never ever been the bottleneck for software development (not since keyboards became widespread from the 60s or 70s)” —Gergely Orosz Software development is a complex value delivery system involving many interdependent roles, including developers, product managers, and platform engineers. Dependencies create potential bottlenecks, such as pull request […]

As an Enterprise Strategist, I’ve noticed that discussions about multicloud are often marked by confusion and contradictory advice. Some advisers warn against adopting a multicloud strategy, while others suggest that you will miss an industry-wide transformation if you don’t. There are legitimate reasons for and against multicloud strategies; success depends on balancing potential business value […]

Maximize AI’s value without breaking the bank – this guide explores cost-optimization strategies across the AI lifecycle, from model selection and data management to FinOps practices.

Dive deep into individual experiences beyond data metrics to uncover blindspots and build lasting trust by focusing on customer needs – a compelling case study on embracing change while preserving core values.

With AI’s rapid evolution, boards face multi-faceted risks requiring diverse oversight, technical expertise, agile risk-mitigation, clear values guiding deployment, and robust cybersecurity – proactively managing uncertainties while capturing AI’s transformative potential.

Unlocking innovation demands aligning talent strategy with organizational aspirations; an oil company’s overlooked compensation model discouraged risk-taking, undermining its transformation goals until leadership revised employee stock rewards.

For more than a decade, organizations have embraced data lakes to overcome the technical limitations of data warehouses and evolve into more data-centric entities. While many organizations have used data lakes to explore new data use cases and improve their data-driven approaches, others have found the promised benefits hard to achieve. As a result, the […]

All organisations are perfectly aligned to get the results they get. —Stephen R. Covey, Educator and Author My first blog post on untangling your organisational hairball describes six focus areas to increase organisational agility. The first is to be highly aligned. As the Cheshire Cat remarked in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, “If you don’t know […]

You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error. —Tim Harford, Economist Read any contemporary article on organisations and within the first few sentences the word, “agile” appears at least once. Some articles suggest achieving agility with a new target operating model (TOM), […]