Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders
Leadership and teaming skills are front and center in times of rapid change. Meet today’s constant disruption head on with expert guidance in leadership, business strategy, transformation, and innovation. Whether the disruption du jour is a digitally-driven upending of traditional business models, the pandemic-driven end to business as usual, or the change-driven challenge of staffing that meets your transformation plans — you’ll be prepared with cutting edge techniques and expert knowledge that enable strategic leadership.
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Not long ago, I received a call from the CFO of a Fortune 500 company about to write a check for $30 million for a network and systems management framework.
The accompanying Executive Report resets the digital revolution in the context of business and technology progress. We're at a flashpoint: the pace of technology deployment and business velocity has already outstripped our ability to assess its impact on how we live, produce, and distribute.
Executive Update
Blending Learning Resources: Moving From Potluck to Banquet
Organizations are bursting with information and knowledge these days. For each, the challenge is to harness all this know-how and make it available to everyone throughout the organization. Today, there are myriad learning gems available for the taking; coupled with the Internet, the resources are boundless.
Executive Update
When IT Executives Become Strategists
IT offers a major source of competitive advantage in almost all industries. Companies rely on technology to reduce internal inefficiencies, connect to external partners (suppliers, clients, and distributors), and implement business models that sometimes transform the rules of the game in their market space.
Competitive intelligence (CI) is the purposeful and coordinated monitoring of your competitor(s), wherever and whomever they may be, within a specific marketplace. Your competitors are those firms that you consider rivals and with whom you compete for market share. CI also involves determining what your rivals are planning to do before they do it.
If asked, just about any manager today could define competitive intelligence (CI). You should expect to hear responses ranging from "stealing business secrets" and "industrial espionage" coming from the truly deluded to a more accurate "collection and analysis of competitor behavior and plans" from those better informed.
BUILDING SECURE SOFTWARE
The Internet continues to change the role that software plays in the business world, fundamentally and radically. Software no longer simply supports back offices and home entertainment; instead, software has become the lifeblood of our businesses and has become deeply entwined into our lives.