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

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.

Abstract

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:

With the debt crisis, the spending crisis, the unemployment crisis, and a hundred other crises du jour, there is constant talk about the fact that we are leveraging our future. I couldn't agree more! I would suggest, however, that it is not only a loss scenario.

It's your first briefing from the CIO:

End of an Era

Dramatic changes in organization, technology, and outsourcing signal limited career potential for 21st-century IT professionals.

A New Day

High business expectations and a new demographic mixture signal a world of opportunity for 21st-century IT professionals.