How to Get Executive Buy-In for Innovation Projects

Peter Goral·23 October 2016·People & Change

...Whether you need to implement a new business intelligence solution, or you need to find ways to implement Big Data analytics across the organization, innovation is a must. Despite the pressing need for digital transformation, there are still many obstacles on the road to business innovation. To push forward new initiatives, business and IT teams often must achieve “buy-in” among top-level executive stakeholders, which requires a thoughtful and methodical approach. Read More...

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The Cyber Highway…Supply Chain Essential

Cyber Brokers·19 October 2016·Cyber Security

...Are you on the road to the Cyber Highway? It is unlikely that your supply chain is travelling in this direction yet as the initiative was only launched last month in London by Lord David Blunkett, the chairman of Cyber Essentials Direct Limited. The concept behind it is to help improve a business's cyber security posture and to provide reassurances in their supply chain which traditionally can present a significant cyber security threat…… an area which businesses often overlook and have little or no control over. Read More...

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Cultivating Future Leaders by Encouraging and Supporting Change Agents

Lee Bryant·19 October 2016·People & Change

...As part of Social Media Week London in September this year, we hosted a discussion about the role of internal change agents in companies and how and why they should be acknowledged and supported in playing this vitally important change role. Leadership does not just come from above in organisations, and cultivating leadership behaviours at all levels is important if you want to create a culture of action and ownership. Read More...

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Moving from Social Technology towards an Operating System for the Organisation

Lee Bryant·19 October 2016·People & Change

...This is a summary of a talk I gave in April to the Stuttgart Social Forum at the Bosch R&D Campus in Renningen.  You can view the accompanying slides from the link at the end of the article.  Read More...

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Defining the Operating Model for a Digital Enterprise

Lee Bryant·19 October 2016·People & Change

...A few weeks ago at the IOM Summit in Cologne, I gave a talk entitled ‘Defining the Operating Model for the Digital Enterprise’ that outlined what I think are the two key foundations of a digitally transformed enterprise: Read More...

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IBM HR Summit 2016: Key takeaways

Elise Elan·19 October 2016·People & Change

...The IBM HR Summit 2016 back in June this year took a firm stand on open HR and the cognitive era – the latter being IBM vision across all sectors and products. The main objective of the day was to prove that HR can be a profit centre and that there is no excuse to delay, as any start on the journey, however small, is worth it. While the past decades have been focused on standardisation, aligning processes, gaining in efficiency and effectiveness, we have now entered the cognitive era. Read More...

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How marketing teams can benefit from marketing technology

Elise Elan·19 October 2016·Customer Engagement

...As consumers, we are increasingly connected, informed and in search of personalised experiences. Just consider some of the key trends identified by Ofcom’s 2015 Communications Market Report: Read More...

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Making the HR department relevant to the CEO with analytics

Jeff Wellstead·19 October 2016·People & Change

...The HR department is poised to be a force of change. A real transformational management consultancy, and a winning centre of excellence to support organisational revolution from the 20th to the 21st century way of working and producing. Read More...

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7 Digital Imperatives That Should be Driving HR Now

Jeff Wellstead·19 October 2016·People & Change

...The world is rapidly changing in the wake of digital disruption. Accelerated adoption of new technologies combined with an increasing digitally enabled and connected society will have huge impact on organisations and the people who shape them, and ultimately make them a success. If you look at the top 7 digital imperatives that are driving many transformational efforts in business today, it is clear to me that HR has a terrific opportunity and sits in a pivotal position to support rapid migration in skills, capability, productivity and collaboration – whilst also supporting critical organisational and cultural shifts to address company adaptation during the Industry 4.0 revolution. Read More...

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The Human Challenge of Two Speed I.T

Simon Ratcliffe·12 October 2016·Strategy & Innovation

...One of the biggest issues facing many IT departments in 2016 is the need to make radical change to meet the increasingly dynamic digital agenda but to continue to deliver the basic utility IT that every organisation need to function. There is an inherent tension between these two needs as one requires traditional, sequential, risk averse activities and the other demands an exploratory, non-linear and agile approach. It would seem that the challenge is integrating these two approaches within a single unified IT department. Read More...

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What Advice Would You Give To This “Would Be” Change Agent?

Derek Miers·10 October 2016·People & Change

...Scott wants to transform Systems Integrators International. He’s a convert. He’s seen the light and can’t understand why his colleagues are not quite as enthusiastic (as he is). The idea of re-orienting the organization around a coherent set of services and products supported by well-honed business processes and practices seems … well, right! With a product/repeatable service focus, SII could then develop a broad range of products and manage them as a portfolio, improving them over time, while making best use of the resources it has available. It just makes sense (to him). Read More...

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How Co-Creation Leads To Successful Innovation

Derek Miers·10 October 2016·Strategy & Innovation

...This post builds on our previous Broad Framework For Transformation and the subsequent piece that focused on the vertical dimension From Understanding Customers To Business Model Reinvention. This piece talks to the core of the horizontal dimension of the framework. Read More...

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