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
Over the past few years, businesses have become more focused on customer-centricity. Organizations are increasingly emphasizing cutting costs, being more market savvy, achieving customer delight, and rolling out products and services faster than ever. Apart from redefining business processes, IT is being sought after to provide much-needed competitive advantage and as a catalyst to achieve business objectives. IT has seen manifold growth and, at the same time, simplification over the years -- especially in the last two decades.
End of an Era
Dramatic changes in organization, technology, and outsourcing signal limited career potential for 21st-century IT professionals.
A New DayHigh business expectations and a new demographic mixture signal a world of opportunity for 21st-century IT professionals.
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.
The stories and statistics are well known and troubling: the door to the CIO office remains a revolving one. Every CIO -- whether new to the organization or long-sitting -- needs to know what is required to ensure organizational success and personal longevity.
Abstract
Implementing an enterprise risk management (ERM) framework requires a technique to help identify risks and assess the effectiveness of existing controls through the three lines of defense of risk governance. The risk and control self-assessment (R&CSA) is one of those techniques. This Executive Report explores the power of R&CSA and its application to deliver value.
A decade after the infamous corporate disasters of the 1990s, the business world is facing another financial crisis. The source this time stems from a combination of lax government regulation and the behavior of numerous financial institutions that bought and sold financial instruments they knew little about, never examined, or knew to be defective.
Executive Update
Collaborative Tools and Enterprise Innovation
Cisco and Microsoft are betting big that they can create collaborative toolsets compelling enough that people (i.e., customers, developers, employees, investors, and regulators) would deem an enterprise crazy to not be Cisco/Microsoft-enabled. On the flip side, a barbarian hoard of entrepreneurs, ISVs, and venture capitalists are betting these vendor giants will not be completely successful. A fascinating David vs.