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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The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the risk landscape for businesses around the globe. Enterprises are learning firsthand whether the business resilience and business continuity plans they put in place are proving successful or not. In light of this crisis, it’s crucial now more than ever to reevaluate your risk management process and ensure you are well prepared for what may lie ahead. As an executive, this involves adapting your leadership and facing the current crisis head-on with a proactive approach to risk management.
Jeff Doolittle helps us to set out on our own path to disruption. He suggests the most drastically disruptive action: don’t do Agile. At the very least, don’t do Agile the way too many others are doing Agile. Doolittle invokes the same line of thinking that started our thought experiment to begin with — what has Agile become? Has it grown in unintended ways? Have we lost what it is supposed to be? What else is there if not Agile? Should we completely abandon Agile? Wouldn’t that be disruptive!
Bob Galen picks up on this issue's evolution theme and goes back to basics. When pursuing Agile, which comes first: the chicken or the egg? Clearly not making breakfast, Galen takes aim at whether teams or leadership “goes Agile” first. He gives us a taste for what it must look like to have teams come first and what seasonings to pepper leadership with so that leadership and teams can be “Agile-y” effective together.
“How can I tell that they’re working if I can’t see them?” It is a common complaint, based on a centuries-old style of working that we now need to move past. My rejoinder usually is, “When you CAN see them, how do you know they’re not shopping Amazon or playing solitaire?” But, in the days of unplanned, unusual work from home (WFH), this question deserves a closer look. In this Advisor, I’ll make use of decades of remote working, and managing remote workers, in the IT industry, but these same principles apply to many kinds of work.
One of the primary issues impeding organizations from carrying out their customer experience (CX) management initiatives is a lack of CX professionals within the organization. So how are organizations meeting or planning to meet their CX implementation needs? This Advisor provides some answers.
In this edition of The Cutter Edge, 25 CEOs and business leaders share their response to the COVID-19 crisis, the use of blockchain in healthcare to manage and monitor COVID-19 patients is explored, and more!
In this report, you'll find interviews, conducted by several partners from Arthur D. Little, with 25 CEOs from Hong-Kong, Singapore, and Italy who shared how they’ve been responding to the COVID-19 crisis. All represent firms that operate critical infrastructures in their respective countries. Their advice is very valuable to CxOs in all industries across the globe.
As the world comes to terms with this “new normal,” it is easy to resort to a mindset of how things will be materially different following this worldwide management and, ultimately, recovery from a significant disruption to how we live our lives. As executive technology leaders, we have a choice to make about how we react to this disruption and how we prepare for future disruptions from a data and digital technology platforms standpoint.