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
There has been much talk and action about business-IT alignment and misalignment and their impact on business. Now, one more factor -- environmental sustainability -- needs to be included in the business-IT nexus. With growing concern about the deterioration of our environment, businesses -- IT and non-IT, small and large -- are required to minimize their environmental impacts and take on a new agenda, environmental sustainability, into their portfolio.
Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.
-- Vandana Shiva (in Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis)[1]
Executive Report
Social Media Success in Continuous Improvement
Abstract
Companies such as Siemens USA, Best Buy, and Sun Microsystems use social media to form powerful online communities. Those communities — through an “amplification effect” — foster innovation and process improvements far more quickly than companies can achieve with traditional improvement mechanisms.
Executive Summary
Social Media Success in Continuous Improvement
If you hear the words "social media" and think Facebook and Twitter, then you have some idea what it is.