Hic Sunt Dracones – Navigating the next Imperative

Adrian Wakefield·27 May 2020·Strategy & Innovation

...As a young child, I was always fascinated by maps, old and new. They seemed to spark hope, inspiration and excitement of journeys as yet to begin and at the same offer some reassure about our own place in the big wide world. Today, with a deeper appreciation of art… Read More...

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Leading. It’s personal

Dimitris Kourepis·25 May 2020·People & Change

...The number of articles, round tables and webinars on how to lead people working from home (WFH) has exploded since the outbreak. Playbooks with Do’s and Don’ts. Great tips and hints on tools to use and platforms to adopt. Training sessions on wellness and family management, the frequency and duration… Read More...

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The Digital Divide – ethics and technology for everyone

Luca Mazzocato·20 May 2020·People & Change

...Digital divide is a deficiency, a social problem, and a shameful obstacle and a problem of inequality, between distinct social groups, as regards the access, use and impact of ICT technologies, often translating into forms of educational, economic and career disparity. I am not surprised that it is one of… Read More...

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The big hairy challenge with separating Innovation from the Core Business

Noel Sobelman·13 May 2020·Strategy & Innovation

...Over the last 10 years or so, as companies have matured their new-growth innovation capabilities, two organizational models have emerged. One model carves out new-growth innovation and manages it as a separate portfolio from the core business. The other model keeps core and new-growth projects together in an integrated structure. In the separate model, companies… Read More...

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The impossible role of the CISO

JC GAILLARD·13 May 2020·Cyber Security

...Security Organizations must evolve. The CISO role cannot be credible on all fronts. A recent comment I read on LinkedIn made me think. It was in response to a post on zero-day vulnerabilities and software patching, and roughly translated from the French, it read as follows:… Read More...

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Analytics in managing change

Karen Ferris·13 May 2020·People & Change

...I enjoyed talking with Pedro Soto from Westbury Analytics about managing change and staying ahead of the competition. Karen Ferris joins Pedro Soto in this episode of Westbury Analytics talk radio to talk about the role of analytics in… Read More...

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Why service firm leaders should nurture the entrepreneurial instincts of their top people

Randy Shattuck·12 May 2020·People & Change

...I believe there are two very important reasons professional service firm leaders should nurture, actively coach even, the entrepreneurial instincts of their top people: retention and alignment. Retention is about creating an environment where your best and brightest feel inspired to achieve their full potential. Alignment is about coaching your… Read More...

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Resilience – Reflection

Karen Ferris·12 May 2020·People & Change

...In this series, I am introducing you to the twenty superpowers that leaders need to possess to create an environment for resilience. This is an environment in which individuals and teams are resilient in the face of constant change. Individual resilience is critical when the world around us is… Read More...

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Open innovation resurgence during COVID. Why?

Jeffrey Phillips·12 May 2020·Strategy & Innovation

...There’s been a resurgence lately in the concept of open innovation.  I’m not quite sure why open innovation as a concept has received more press and more attention lately.  It’s not as though we have new open innovation methods or mechanisms, or that open innovation has demonstrated more effective outcomes. Read More...

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Chatbots in a nutshell

Kevin Gray·12 May 2020·Enabling Technologies

...Marketing scientist Kevin Gray asks Dr. Anna Farzindar of the University of Southern California about chatbots and the ways they are used. What are chatbots? Is there a formal definition you prefer?  Conversational or dialog agents are designed to communicate with us in human language. These software agents are… Read More...

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Post COVID M&A – The springboard for a stronger market

Simon Ratcliffe·12 May 2020·Strategy & Innovation

...In the current climate, economic turbulence is creating market volatility that is creating opportunities for M&A activities across many industries.  M&A is a fact of corporate growth, enabling organisations to rapidly expand their services/market penetration whilst using market dynamics to their advantage. For some organisations, the current market is the… Read More...

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Reinventing work

Sergio Caredda·11 May 2020·People & Change

...On the 1st of May, I wrote a short post about “Rethinking Work”. In a moment where the Covid19 pandemic seems to be at least partially under control, and governments around the world are all planning their “reopening” strategies, work appears to be one of the big losers in… Read More...

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