In the wake of Edward Snowden’s revealing classified information, the National Security Agency has announced it will significantly reduce its workforce to cut down on the number of people with access to confidential data. The agency plans to automate 90 percent of its systems administrator duties.

Organizations that adopt a well thought-out strategy toward innovation and are able to allocate the required resources for it set themselves up to emerge as market leaders in the long run—both tactically and strategically. Rajini Padmanaban profiles Google's organization-wide innovation strategies.

"Don't work on projects, work on products!" is a cry often heard in the agile community. But if you have a team pulled together to support an ongoing product, it doesn't make sense to use typical project management techniques. Maybe projects aren't the problem—their organizational structures are.