People analytics: Why some companies are making a fortune while others are losing out

Max Blumberg·3 July 2019·People & Change

...People analytics – when implemented in the right way – can be a real fortune-maker for businesses. The problem is that a lot of ‘analytics’ styles out there will not reap the rewards that businesses expect. Explore the four styles outlined below to see if your analytics approach is missing… Read More...

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Insights on the how of Digital Transformation: An interview with Lindsay Herbert

Lindsay Herbert·3 July 2019·People & Change

...‘Leading Digital Transformation’ is a weekly podcast series produced in collaboration between The Digital Transformation People and Rob Llewellyn digital transformation advisor and founder of CXO Transform. During this series, Rob interviews experienced practitioners, authors and thought leaders whose stories and experiences provide valuable insights for digital transformation… Read More...

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Unlocking innovation in your organisation

Phil Darby·3 July 2019·Customer Engagement

...The original Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising had no problem unlocking innovation. However, when Maurice and Charles Saatchi wanted to buy the crisis-struck Midland Bank their board prevented them from doing so, much to the brothers’ frustration. Whether or not this was a wise move on the part of the board… Read More...

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Appointing the right talent to lead your digital transformation

Tim Ellis·1 July 2019·People & Change

...Digital Transformation is very much on the corporate agenda. Most organisations have now moved beyond the ‘what is it?’ stage and are now working hard to drive their own transformation initiatives. However, the elephant in the room is that most digital transformations fail to deliver. And with time… Read More...

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Building the agile business through digital transformation by Neil Perkin and Peter Abraham
An Executive Summary

The Digital Transformation People·1 July 2019·Delivery

...An Executive Summary of Building The Agile Business Through Digital Transformation by Peter Abraham and Neil Perkin (Kogan Page 2017).  This is a practical how-to guide on implementing Digital Transformation and presents a checklist of methods that can be used to achieve… Read More...

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Cracking the code of Digital Transformation

Connected Futures from Cisco·17 June 2019·People & Change

...In this podcast, Connected Futures executive editor Kevin Delaney speaks with James Macaulay co-author of Digital Vortex who explains why the failure rate of digital transformations is so high. He goes on to outline how to dramatically improve your chances of success by adopting a synergistic and orchestrated approach… Read More...

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A practical model for distributed digital leadership

Lee Bryant·12 June 2019·People & Change

...It is very hard to succeed with digital transformation in an established organisation without addressing structural barriers and blockers and in particular the stultifying effect of management-by-cascading-hierarchy, which creates a divided, vertically-oriented organisation instead of a laterally connected structure.  For this reason, we are doing a lot of digital leadership development… Read More...

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Part 8: Organizing for Transformation – the Governance Challenge

Roland Deiser·10 June 2019·Delivery

...When we asked how they organize their digital transformation efforts, we noticed a high degree of variety between the companies we investigated; not two of them looked the same. We were not surprised; an organization’s governance set-up depends on a complex set of variables, which makes each case unique: their maturity… Read More...

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Funny things happened on the way to the forum

Kevin Gray·5 June 2019·Data & Analytics

...Data scientists are all experts in statistics, right? Wrong. In Statistical Mistakes Even Scientists Make I review some common statistical errors committed by scientists. Yes, scientists do make statistical mistakes. Lots of ‘em. What about data science, then? The definition of a data scientist is highly imprecise and includes IT… Read More...

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Cyber security is becoming a matter of good corporate governance, good ethics, and quite simply – good business

JC GAILLARD·29 May 2019·Cyber Security

...Key factors for boards and executive management to consider in 2019 around cyber security and privacy. Cyber security has risen as a key issue on the radar of virtually all organisations. As a recent AT Kearney report suggests, cyber-attacks have been topping executives’ lists of business risks for… Read More...

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News in Digital from The Digital Transformation People #31

News In Digital·27 May 2019·The Case For Digital Transformation

...More news, views and how to’s from the world of Digital Transformation. Like anything worth doing it’s not always easy, so if you’re fast approaching the trough of disillusionment, or as Frank Mattes says “the valley of death” then read on for you’ll certainly find some inspiration here. If you… Read More...

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Why HR and Organisational Design professionals must play a key role in Digital Transformation

Declan Kavanagh·15 May 2019·People & Change

...A strategic imperative for most organisations must be to leverage existing and emerging technology to become, or maintain their leadership position at one end of the spectrum, to survival at the other end of the spectrum, and all the scenarios in between. The context of each organisation will determine the… Read More...

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