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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Insight

It is so easy, and tempting, to try to envision precisely how 2013 will unfold. Levels of business uncertainty abound, and yet for some reason, we invest significant chunks of our time trying to forecast what's going to transpire in the world around us and determine its lasting effects on our actions and lives.

Visualization has always played an important role in BI and analytics, aiding in our ability to process complex numerical information and improving our understanding. Graphics are an important part of BI dashboards, with graphs, plots, and speed dials providing instant and automatic access to analytics results.

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Organizational change is never easy. However, successful transformations can and do happen.

In his book High-Risk Society, economist Michael Mandel wrote, "Over the long run, success will go to the people, companies, and countries willing and able to accept uncertainty.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

-- Jiddu Krishnamurti

Enterprise architecture (EA) used to be about IT. Over the years, it has expanded to include business and operations subject matter. Then it became strategic, encompassing organization and management issues.

Most large organizations have teams of business analysts. And a growing number have business architects.

As has been our tradition for the last several years, we've compiled the five most intriguing articles published by the Business Technology Strategies practice this year for today's Advisor.