Avoiding People Analytics Project Failure

Max Blumberg·30 November 2016·People & Change

...Making sense of people data is a struggle for many HR professionals. People analytics is only effective when data collection is focused on achieving a particular management objective - such as improving talent management processes, recruitment or retention, or to demonstrate HR's contribution to the value/ROI of these processes. Read More...

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What Makes a Successful Digital Transformation Project?

Niall McKeown·30 November 2016·Delivery

...This is a digital transformation case study that uses a digital transformation framework to help in the diagnosis of a strategic issues.  Without addressing the critical issues within any situation, technology simply adds complexity and marketing fails due to lack of competitive advantage.  Successful digital transformation projects look to address the 'cultural hierarchy of needs' of the individual. Read More...

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Cyber Security: Six Questions the Board of Directors Needs to Ask

JC GAILLARD·30 November 2016·Cyber Security

...From a cyber security perspective, 2015's headlines were dominated by a number of high profile data breaches: Sony, Ashley Madison, TalkTalk ... Those hacks have put cyber security on the Board's agenda in many corporations and have also drawn the attention of politicians. Read More...

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Digital Leadership

Niall McKeown·29 November 2016·People & Change

...Can any leader declare that they have truly become a digital leader and that their organisation has been fully transformed in the new digital world?  The first problem in making such a declaration is that there is no agreement on what being a digital leader means, and the language even around digital transformation is now only properly developing. Read More...

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Digital Mastery

Niall McKeown·29 November 2016·Delivery

...In their book “Leading Digital’’ George Westerman, Didier Bonnet and Andrew McAfee describe 4 levels of digital mastery. The simplicity of their quadrant (below) makes it easy for all organisations to quickly assess where they sit in relation to their own digital mastery.   Read More...

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Reimagining Your Organisation

Niall McKeown·29 November 2016·Delivery

...In his book The Digital Transformation Playbook David Rogers says “Digital Transformation is fundamentally not about technology but about strategy. Although it may require upgrading your IT architecture, the more important upgrade is to your strategic thinking.” He goes on to say, “Today, digital leadership requires the ability to reimagine and reinvent that business itself.’’ Read More...

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DMP Adoption in Agencies: Making a Real Impact

Miles Pritchard·29 November 2016·Customer Engagement

...In an increasingly complex world with a host of different functions, from audience strategy, to media execution, programmatic buying, and analytics, all participating in the delivery of a single marketing campaign, it's easy to understand how new additions to this complex ecosystem can become lost in the noise, resulting in a lack of value being extracted. Read More...

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Following Four Different Paths to Innovation

Braden Kelley·29 November 2016·People & Change

...I had the opportunity recently to interview fellow Innovation author Gijs van Wulfen to talk with him about his new book The Innovation Maze, which is a follow-up to his great first book The Innovation Expedition. Read More...

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Pre-determinism: Trump, Business and AI

Sebastian Haire·23 November 2016·People & Change

...I feel like I need to say something on the topic as everyone else has. However, I'm going to go down a philosophical route on this one, not political. I studied philosophy and politics at university and to be honest I haven't done much with that degree since. However, the current political environment got me thinking about my degree and in particular a module in philosophy known as pre-determinism. Read More...

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What is the driving power behind a successful community?

Sebastian Haire·17 November 2016·People & Change

...As innately social creatures, we thrive being part of communities. Since the dark ages we have belonged to a tribe, community, grouping, company, town, county, country, region. It's something we take great pride in, get passionate about and go to war over. Read More...

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SCALING UP: From corporate start-up to innovation impact

Frank Mattes·10 November 2016·Strategy & Innovation

...More than three years ago, we noticed a pain point in corporate innovation: How should companies balance the different requirements in searching for tomorrow’s business and in running today’s business? We wrote a well-received article urging the need for organizational ambidexterity, i.e implementing dual corporate innovation structures. Read More...

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The key to setting performance expectations for executives

Richard Chiumento·8 November 2016·People & Change

...Everyone needs goals in both their personal and professional lives to deliver improved performance. And having to act upon key objectives cascaded down from senior and executive management teams is part of everyday life for junior and middle managers. It is how performance is measured through all levels of a business, and central to it delivering on its over-arching mission and strategy. Read More...

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