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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I call this series of Advisors "Reflections on Innovation." There's plenty of writing on innovation that tells you what it is, how you must do it, and even suggests ways to predict the outcome of your process. That's an industrial approach, and I'm unsympathetic to its aims and methods.

WHAT IF EVERYTHING YOU KNEW ABOUT COLLABORATION WAS WRONG?

How would you feel if you owned a Ferrari and couldn't get it out of first gear? That's exactly what's happening in many companies when it comes to collaborative technologies.

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Agile and lean methods are a means to an end, and that end is increased capability and productivity for your teams and organizations.

Agile and lean methods are a means to an end, and that end is increased capability and productivity for your teams and organizations. This leads directly to cost savings and revenue. All too often, however, adoption and transformation initiatives fail to bring such results.

It's your first briefing from the CIO:

IT is undergoing major changes that affect individuals as well as organizations. Mobile technology advances, cloud computing, and social networks are having a profound impact on the role of IT and IT professionals. In the past, businesses had to rely on their IT departments to make every enhancement to their systems and applications, whereas the current trend toward scripting languages, intuitive interfaces, and cloud-based services enables business users to quickly create their own applications.

Individuals entering the workforce today use the devices at their disposal differently from employees that came before. With over 5 billion cell phone subscriptions and 1 billion PCs in the world, the cell phone is the next digital frontier for companies looking to engage their employees.

Gone are those days when monolithic IT systems were developed and maintained by exclusive communities of IT professionals confined to technology-savvy regions of the world. The challenges of software engineering during the 21st century are quite different and multifold because of factors such as globalization and technology evolution.