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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In this Executive Update, we explore a promising breakthrough growth model that we have successfully applied in both B2C and B2B businesses. This model delivers major benefits in terms of speed, cost, and likelihood of success. It involves radical collaboration across the innovation ecosystem and covers the entire innovation process from idea to commercialization, including the strategic, commercial, operational, and technical aspects. We call this the Breakthrough Incubator (BI) model.
This Advisor — one in a series of “Agile Team Tips” — describes the benefits of backlogs and backlog grooming.
When it comes to delivering effective digital transformations, human behavior is often overlooked in favor of a focus on technology. In this series of Advisors, we outline how organizations can truly engage their people by understanding their behaviors and, consequently, ensure that they undergo successful digital change.
The critical role of a business architect is to understand the business needs and design the fundamental business elements that can be configured in many ways to realize what the business wants.
Commercial edge computing products — including hardware solutions featuring embedded analytic and AI technologies — are just now starting to become available or will be soon. Despite these hindrances, already we are seeing examples of companies developing edge computing applications.
End-to-end strategy realization requires many people to work together seamlessly across five stages; this includes teams centered on strategy, customer experience, architecture, product management portfolio management, program and project planning, business analysis, business process, organizational design, and execution. Business architecture is a relatively new addition to the ecosystem of strategy realization, but has a valuable role in all five stages.
Agility does not come easily; it is more a question of culture and values than a question of using specific methods and tools. Using a self-assessment tool, this Executive Update describes how organizations can measure their agility.
How does a utility company connect better with its customers? Utility companies must consider strategic investments in all available tools — including software dedicated to the purpose — to increase customer engagement in and control of their products and services.