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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Plot, Coherence, and Resonance
The ancient philosopher, Aristotle, wrote a book about "making." In it, he used plays -- tragedies -- as his example of a complicated made thing, and he declared plot the "soul" of tragedy. He defined "plot" as the principle of arrangement for all the other parts.
A Structured Approach to IT Cloud Migration
Migrating IT systems and infrastructure to cloud ecosystems cuts costs and improves service delivery. However, moving complex IT infrastructures directly to cloud architectures is not simple or easy. As discussed in this Executive Report, an enterprise needs to look not only at the technical aspects but also at how migration will affect business operations.
Competence Requirements for Leading Change in Technology Companies
Leaders of technology companies should take change management more seriously. While this is also true of changes to requirements, products, and other elements normally handled by change-control systems, here we're talking about the type of change management that's associated with organizational change. Such change deals with altering what goes on inside an operation.
Social media, including but not limited to social networks, is no longer just where you spend your evenings when

