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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Yesha Sivan and Yonatan Rabinovitch discuss how to manage “black swans” crises with what they propose as the Three New Normals (3NN) framework. The authors explicitly state that the 3NN framework “was designed as a flexible descriptive framework, allowing for optimism, pessimism, or realism.” It focuses on how digital leaders can navigate sea changes.
There are a variety of circumstances that can cause Agile methodologies to struggle to gain a firm foothold in many organizations. We believe the most prevalent issue surrounding adoption (or lack thereof) is the misunderstanding of many Agile practices and techniques, a key component of which is the lack of understanding of the underlying reason why it is necessary to perform certain practices.
Robotic process automation (RPA) and artificial intelligence (AI) are complementary – when implemented together they enlarge the scale of value that can be created. In this Advisor, we share some practical insight into how communication service providers (CSPs) and other organizations can embark on the AI-powered RPA opportunity.
This Advisor explores a key question regarding digital transformation among analog-native companies: how can these businesses adapt their organizational structures to accelerate the transformation and build digital maturity?
Cui Zou, Wangchuchu Zhao, and Keng Siau respond directly to COVID-19 by framing the skills and training necessary to survive crises. The authors focus on the importance of helping organizations prepare beyond the current pandemic by teaching everyone how to use the technology tools — and exploit the processes — around remote working.
Mark Lee gets specific about how pandemics should solve long-term work-from-home (WFH) problems. He discusses why VPNs are problematic, how they can — and should — be replaced, and why we need a long-term WFH strategy.
Through a series of equations, Dave Cherry outlines how to maintain customer loyalty before and after crises. He asserts that “for technology and business leaders to count among the bold, deciphering how to capitalize on this opportunity requires a foundation of confidence, flexibility, and resiliency — all anchored and enabled by knowledge.”
The article is a reminder that all management must be anchored in simple, adaptive business acumen. Barsky notes that “the convergence of technology trends, evolving business dynamics, and the economic ramifications of the pandemic require astute business management, particularly in organizations now left with little room for error.”