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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The attacks on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City on 11 September 2001 exposed the need for developing business continuity planning and disaster recovery (BCP-DR) strategies. After those attacks, IT infrastructure planners and data center architects across the world started incorporating alternate sites and high availability of applications and services in their designs.
By looking ahead to a time when monitoring blood sugar and delivering insulin can occur in real time, one can see a time when worldwide diabetes might be brought under control, and with it all its terrible side effects. Moreover, research has already shown promise that blood sugar monitoring can be made nonintrusive. Google, for one, has patented a contact lens that monitors blood sugar via the fluids in the eye.
This Executive Update explores the key dimensions of development intelligence, including the types of development and organizational levels, and analytics maturity and what is measured.
The Executive Update takes a look at the host of C-suite technology titles and discusses what they mean to enterprise's today.
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Earlier this month I participated in an international symposium mounted in honor of Professor Piet Ribbers' retirement from Tilburg University, Netherlands. Piet has been a leader for more than 30 years through his teaching, research, and with his development of graduate and professional programs in information management.
Another week, and yet another news story about a new or upgraded IT system released before its time.
For an organization to flourish, different people must take on leadership roles at all levels of the hierarchy: from frontline staff and managers who must lead small groups of direct reports, peers, or projects through various processes and decisions; to middle managers who lead senior staff, other managers, their peers, and their own management; to upper-level managers and executives who lead larger groups of people, entire departments, and substantial corporate-wide initiatives.