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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FROM ATOMS TO BITS

We are analog beings in an increasingly digital world. This presents a design conundrum -- the more we crave empathic design to enrich our lives, the less capable we are of producing it.

Jack Stark is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in performance psychology. He works with Fortune 500 corporate executives and college, professional, and Olympic athletes employing an approach that is detailed in his highly acclaimed book The Championship Formula.

The painful truth is 75% of enterprise-wide change efforts fail. Failure includes not getting the results expected or wanted. This inability to make effective changes across the organization is defined as "organizational immaturity." In this Executive Update, Martin Klubeck looks at why leaders insist on enterprise-wide change when they continue to fail and some possible reasons for this attitude.

Any doubts that US Internet, telecom, and cloud companies might have an image problem were shattered with the German government's recent decision to terminate its deal with Verizon Communications due to lingering resentment about National Security Agency (NSA) spying and electron

The level of hype surrounding the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Industrial Internet is ramping up. A key point to keep in mind, however, is that most companies outside of the industrial or engineering realms have little experience building and operating sensor-enabled applications and products.

This Executive Update discusses some of the critical skills enterprises are short on and how they should go about meeting the demand.

 

"'If we don't have a new security model,' said Daniel Kaufman, the director of DARPA's Information Innovation Office ...

If you only adopt one practice of Agile, adopt retrospectives. The rest will emerge from that.