Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders
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This month, we have tapped into the expertise and knowledge of two contributors with significant backgrounds in e-learning.
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In this Executive Report by Dr. Leslie P. Willcocks and Catherine Griffiths, we examine the key roles that middle managers (MMs) play in outsourcing on both the client and the supplier sides. Most senior executives ignore these less headline-grabbing roles at their own peril.
Working in technologically and organizationally complex, globalizing environments, modern middle managers (MMs) are now found to be the glue that holds organizations together. 1 Senior managers will make the agenda-setting decisions that determine an organization's course, but MMs have considerable influence on the long road to implementation. They make day-to-day choices and key tradeoffs that escape top management's attention, know-how, and interest yet are central to performance.
Assertion 191: The current mode of flat-rate pricing for wired and wireless data communications discourages space-efficient software, encourages unlimited consumption, and is unsustainable. Rising capital and operating expenses to keep pace with increasing demand will force carrier pricing upward. Simultaneously, customers will tire of subsidizing peak users, pressuring prices downward. A pay-per-use model can address both issues.
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Change is a fact of life and has many benefits, but it is hardly ever easy and brings huge stress. How you manage the change process can determine not only the ultimate success of the change effort, but also the health of your organization during and after the change.
Change is a fact of life. While change can have many benefits, it is hardly ever easy and often brings huge stress to an organization. Many people fear change and prefer to stay in a situation that feels familiar and comfortable. Since all change also alters the dynamics within an organization, it can evoke anxiety and stress and stir conflict.
In the accompanying Executive Report, we consider the pressures on organizations to master the art of change and present a fractal metaphor for the tandem role of strategy and architecture. This metaphor derives from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos's observation that strategy happens fractally at Amazon -- set at different scales throughout the business. Strategy is a mechanism for business leaders to create coherence of purpose and identity among organizational elements and to create cross-organizational synergies.