Growth? Innovation? They come from Customers.

Ted Bauer·6 June 2016·Strategy & Innovation

...Here's an interview with a marketing professor (Tim Calkins) at Kellogg/Northwestern where he's discussing innovation and products and revenue growth and all that good stuff. Here's a money quote: Read More...

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The Role & Value Of An Interim Chief Digital Officer (CDO) In PE / VC-Backed Businesses – Interview

James Leighton Davis·31 May 2016·The Case For Digital Transformation

...This interview was conducted in late 2015 by James Wheeler of EIM, and is reproduced with his kind permission. Digital transformation is the most critical issue facing business today. We are all using clever IT and smartphones and most of us use social media. We all consume data and our actions generate further data. But few of us understand the significant opportunities digital offers on tap for developing our top line performance and conversely protecting what we have already got. Enter the Chief Digital Officer… Read More...

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Are you measuring the operational innovation process or the results?

Micha Veen·31 May 2016·Strategy & Innovation

...In my article, Measure the effectiveness of Operational Innovation (27 May 2016), I provided insight in the steps that successful organisations take to measure the “individual” operational innovation efforts. Through measuring the individual ideas through to innovation solution and deployment, you’re able to assess the effectiveness of operational innovation on the organisation’s vision, targets and goals. Read More...

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BI Is Nice, But Advanced Analytics Is Brilliant

Kevin McDonnell·23 May 2016·Data & Analytics

...The Double Entendre. Have you ever stopped to think what the word "nice" means?   Per the Oxford Dictionary's online blog entitled, "What is the strangest change in a word's meaning?, "The word nice, derived from Latin nescius meaning ‘ignorant’, began life in the fourteenth century as a term for ‘foolish’ or ‘silly’. From there it embraced many a negative quality, including wantonness, extravagance, and ostentation, as well as cowardice and sloth. Read More...

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Enterprise babelfish

Peter Murchland·23 May 2016·Strategy & Innovation

...Enterprise babelfish? For those who have not read or heard of the babelfish - you can find it in Douglas Adam's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".  Placed in your ear, the babelfish provides instant translation of any language being spoken by any alien you might encounter. Read More...

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How do banks morph to become digital through and through?

Stuart Hall·23 May 2016·Strategy & Innovation

...Disruption has changed the face of multiple industries, but it feels like its effects have been most rapid and profound within banking. ‘Banks’ internal structures and processes are not geared towards facilitating experimental thinking’. FinTech companies such as PayPal and Transferwise have streamlined multiple traditional banking services, changing how consumers interact with and consume banking services.   Read More...

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Why are companies still looking at finance optimisation, SAP solutions and Shared Services when you can adopt Finance Innovation?

Micha Veen·11 May 2016·Strategy & Innovation

...Last year, CEDA conducted research into Australia’s Future Workforce. It provided insight in how the impact of computerisation, digitalisation and automation affects the Australian future workforce. Even though this report is Australian focussed, the report represents the shift in the global future workforce. The report describes how a large number of existing jobs are slowly disappearing through the use of technology and new type of jobs. Read More...

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The ‘right or wrong’ with technology and the connected world

Sofie Sandell·3 May 2016·Customer Engagement

...A couple of days ago I had a chat with an acquaintance about technology and social media. I’ve been using and educating in the area of social media and digital leadership for years. Connectivity is fantastic and scary at the same time. When we spoke, I was told I was… Read More...

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Assembling Your Information Security Master Plan

Vimal Mani·3 May 2016·Cyber Security

...Why Information Security requires strategic planning? Strategic planning is the process that supports an organization in setting up goals and objectives towards achieving some desired destination in Business. Strategic planning also helps an organization in identifying the various resources required for achieving the goals and objectives identified. Read More...

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Enterprise Awareness

Peter Murchland·3 May 2016·Delivery

...This article extends the thinking outlined in Enterprise Development which encompasses those capabilities required by an enterprise to support its adaptation, development, or transformation towards its intended future state.  It explores enterprise awareness as a key capability within the enterprise development domain, and considers enterprise awareness in terms similar to those of individual self-awareness. Read More...

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From Understanding Customers To Business Model Reinvention

Derek Miers·3 May 2016·Strategy & Innovation

...This paper explores the Innovation Dimension of our Broad Transformational Framework. We’ve already set out the types of changes that we exclude from this framework. The next post will investigate how to work on the Organizational Culture, Purpose and People Dimension, with a similar piece in the works for the Technology Depth Dimension. We then get into the playbook—how firms should use the framework to design their own programs that navigate the Journey of Change. Read More...

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Podcast: The Digital Humanist

Rogier Noort·3 May 2016·People & Change

...Luis Suarez is driven by the human element in The Digital Transformation Age. Despite it being driven mainly by technological advancements. Read More...

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