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In earlier posts in this series, I talked about the challenges and techniques of driving change from a senior position in the organizational chart (Driving Change from the Top Down: Wielding Organizational Powerand Top-Down Transformation: Shu-Ha-Ri to Go Beyond Command-and-Control) and from a middle management position (Transforming Up and Down: Leading Change from the Middleand […]

Tenet: (n) A principal or belief, especially one of the main principles of a religion or philosophy. These tenets are held by the group. To be a member in good standing, you are expected to hold to its particular teaching. In my role as an AWS Enterprise Strategist I travel the world working with leaders […]

Welcome to the second installment of our series “Ahead in the Cloud,” where we interview leaders of IT transformation about what drives them and how they think about their roles. This installment features Peter Loeffler, VP of Innovation and Industry Affairs at Siemens Switzerland Ltd. If you want to hear more about how Siemens is […]

Amazon Web Services launched 1,430 new features and services in 2017, 1,017 in 2016, and 722 in 2015. One of the key benefits of adopting a cloud platform like AWS is its ability to help businesses keep up with the increasing pace of innovation. But, while the launch of new features and services is cause […]

(image www.bluecoat.com) In an earlier blog post, I discussed the importance of building a culture of security rather than thinking of security as just the job of the CISO’s team. In this post, I’d like to discuss some ideas on how to build such a culture, drawing on my experiences at USCIS. As CIO, I […]

  In an earlier post, I described how a transformational leader who is not at the top of the organizational hierarchy can still begin the process of driving change. I left off my description at a critical moment. The change agent has implemented changes within his or her scope of authority, carved out a sandbox […]

opensource.com In several earlier blog posts, I discussed techniques for leading a digital transformation from the top of an organization. In the first of these posts, I discussed how to take organizational power—the power that comes from sitting high in the organizational chart—and, in an ironic twist, use it to lead the organization from a […]

It is no longer sufficient to leave security to a team of specialists who watch over the enterprise’s risk posture and control it through a set of constraining policies. It is not enough to guard the boundaries of the enterprise’s network with firewalls, or to simply implement sets of controls specified in a compliance framework. […]

There’s been a lot of industry buzz about digital transformation but little clear information about what it means. What does it mean to be “digital?” How different is it from what we do today? How much of a transformation does going “digital” require? What is clear is that the pace of innovation, change, and disruption […]

In an earlier post, I talked about how risk decisions are often compromised by the status quo bias. In this post, I would like to present an alternative way to think about risk—a way that fits well with today’s business practices. To be precise, I want to try to demonstrate that risk in a business […]