Strategy without execution = useless. Execution without strategy = mess. How do you align them?

Ted Bauer·28 March 2016·Strategy & Innovation

...I have had a bunch of different jobs, and I'll be honest: by this point, about 13 years into working, I oftentimes have no idea what strategy even is. I know that senior leaders of companies typically have a couple of big meetings ("off-sites") per year and they hammer out some "go-to-market" strategies and the like -- although those are often created in a vacuum, away from the people who actually have to execute on the ideas -- but at most jobs, daily tasks seem to matter way more than any concept of strategy, even for senior executives. Read More...

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Start a Change Revolution

Braden Kelley·22 March 2016·People & Change

...The pace of change is accelerating, and for many people (and companies) things are changing so fast that they feel overwhelmed and retreat to the familiar instead of embracing the change. In fact we are approaching a tipping point where what is becoming interesting to the young is not the new, but the old. Vintage Michael Jordan sneakers, vinyl albums, rotary telephones, and analog amplifiers all have growing numbers of fans. In fact, vinyl album sales are increasing as CD sales decrease. Read More...

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Industry 4.0: What it means to global industry and consumers

Philip Dwyer·22 March 2016·The Case For Digital Transformation

...We are in the midst of Industry 4.0 – the fourth wave of technological advancement which will fundamentally alter the way that industry and consumer ecosystems will evolve. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the world's top 2,500 business leaders, international political leaders, selected intellectuals, and journalists met at the World Economic Forum in Davos recently to discuss the most pressing issues facing the world, of which, Industry 4.0 was front and center. Read More...

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Blockchain Technology in Capital Markets – A long journey with many unknowns

Indra Chourasia·16 March 2016·Enabling Technologies

...“It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true”                                      – Freeman Dyson (theoretical physicist and mathematician) Blockchain or distributed ledger technology[i] and its application in financial services has generated… Read More...

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Evolution, Big Data can become Smart Data

Graham Smith·16 March 2016·Enabling Technologies

...As the avalanche of data continues, so does its evolution. Big data is evolving, but it needs help as there are so many complexities in Data. The secret recipe here for a successful predictive analytics project starts with housekeeping or cleansing, basically filtering out all of the dirt, noise, invalid data and misleading data. Once this has been done the data has evolved into now what we can call Smart Data. From Smart data we can now start to extract the value of predictive analytics. Read More...

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How to actually manage your time at work

Ted Bauer·10 March 2016·People & Change

...One major thing we get wrong: work isn't about tasks and targets. It's about energy. There's only a fraction of the day (honestly) that you'll be really successful at those tasks and targets, and you need to figure out how to maximize it. Unfortunately, this is what often happens: e-mails. Meetings. E-Mails. Meetings. Rinse and repeat. Read More...

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Increase Your Organizational Agility

Braden Kelley·2 March 2016·People & Change

...Companies seeking to cope with the pace of accelerating change are looking for ways to go faster, and managers in non-technical disciplines have become increasingly infatuated with the Agile Software Development methodology and many are finding ways to adapt parts of it to create agile change or agile marketing or other such things. Sure agility sounds like a good thing and sure agile marketing sounds like it must be better than regular marketing, but is it? Read More...

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Digital Program: preparedness checklist

Joseph Dolphin·2 March 2016·People & Change

...Introduction Project preparedness is critical activity towards effective change management, in digital programs that have an enterprise-wide impact. Examples: Projects that impact over 50+ users Projects that will impact several offices across locations Projects that will impact significant number of business processes Projects that will introduce a new enterprise-wide application It is important to ensure Digital program goals are in line enterprise goals and to stakeholder needs. Read More...

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How to Justify the Social Business Investment

Mark Hewitt·2 March 2016·Customer Engagement

...Many organizations are in need of a simple, practical ROI framework for social business. Firms that have had their social moment still need to justify the social business investment in a tangible, metrics-driven way.  Read More...

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Predictive analytic to understand online buyer’s behavior – E-commerce use case

Birendra Kumar Sahu·2 March 2016·Data & Analytics

...Predictive analytic to understand online buyer’s behavior Read More...

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Outperform With Great Sales & Marketing Capabilities

James Leighton Davis·2 March 2016·Strategy & Innovation

...Driving performance is the principle goal of many companies. But, how many of them actually manage to build and develop efficient sales and marketing capabilities to be more productive and lead the market? Read More...

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Innovation is Change

Braden Kelley·2 March 2016·Strategy & Innovation

...Can you think of a single innovation that didn’t change something? I didn’t think so. Innovation is change, or at least, innovation requires change. In my role as an innovation keynote speaker and workshop facilitator, I recently led a German-based industrial company’s North American IT leadership team through an innovation workshop, during which we spent part of the time working to define their common language of innovation (as described in my book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire). For companies looking to build a sustainable innovation capability this is an important first step. Read More...

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