6 challenges of agile at scale for ERP

Agile has been around for a long time by IT standards and has proven to be successful for many companies.  As companies have evolved and progressed through the pioneering stage of agile, there has been a tendency to take on larger and larger efforts. There have even been inroads made in the application of agile…

7 barriers to innovation worth breaking

CIO Ed Giaquinto took to heart a lesson he learned on the job a decade ago. A former engineer at big-box retailer Toys R Us, he and his co-workers would spend weekends upgrading inventory management and logistic systems at distribution centers, working on servers that required the distribution centers to come offline. [ Learn the…

Maximizing stakeholder value

In biology, an ecosystem is a system of biotic (living) and abiotic (non-living) elements coexisting in equilibrium. If some elements increase, others decrease to keep the overall energy of the system at some nominal level. For example, plant-eating animals multiplying in an ecosystem will deplete the vegetation, thereby reducing the capacity of that ecosystem to…