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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Organizations need to address several issues across four critical steps to make AI work to their best advantage: (1) assess business needs, (2) seek skilled AI people and train staff, (3) identify AI machine learning input data, and (4) choose AI and ML tools. This Executive Update addresses each of the four steps and offers recommendations.
Note from the author: While I often write about organizations and technologies, this Advisor is a bit of a (related and important) tangent, as it focuses on career advancement. Invariably, in working with executives and rising leaders, particularly technology professionals and consultants, conversations turn to career challenges. I have long wanted to author a piece that captures an effective approach that, over many years, has resonated well with business professionals aiming for a promotion and meaningful career advancement.
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Why do technology projects continue to fail at such an astounding rate? Why has the technical debt metaphor outgrown its original intent and evolved as a company-wide concern? Find out in this latest edition of The Cutter Edge!
The goal of the customer experience equation is to develop a connection. Connection is achieved through two factors. The first is content and represents the product or service that you sell. The second factor is context, which represents everything surrounding both your content and your customer.
This issue of CBTJ addresses the tactical, operational, strategic, and human reasons that allow technology projects to fail and offers guidance and solutions to mitigate the possibility of failure.
Developing strategy requires all the skills possessed by competent, experienced enterprise architects, plus the ability to deal with uncertainty and ranges of responses. This Advisor explores how you can use scenarios — or stories — to describe various combinations of responses in order to work out the likely outcomes in each case.
Essential team conditions need to be set up well and are tenaciously difficult to fix later. Having the right talent is one such essential condition, but not all organizations are strategically ready for the problems of finding and selecting top talent, accurately understanding what roles that talent will fill, or building up their own leadership competencies internally.