Dateline: November 15, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Innovation can be an elusive goal for some organizations. Corporate strategist and author Chris Potts recently wrote a thought provoking piece for Information Week suggesting Innovation Stalled? Bad Culture Defeats Good Strategy. Potts writes, Why do some organizations … [Read more...]
Digital Competency is Critical for Success in the Creative Economy
October 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Forbes contributor, Steve Denning, recently interviewed Haydn Shaughnessy, co-author with Dr. Nick Vitalari of The Elastic Enterprise (mentioned earlier in this blog here). Denning suggests that: The Elastic Enterprise is one of at least twenty-four books of a management canon that spells out the implications of coping with the emerging Creative Economy of the 21st Century. In effect, a … [Read more...]
Making Partnerships Work
July 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: July 26, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Partnerships can be a tricky thing. On the one hand, building an ecosystem of partners is necessary in today's environment. One organization cannot provide all the services necessary for a successful business. IT is used to working with partners to deliver the variety of systems, … [Read more...]
Change is Possible with Reinforcing Processes
July 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: July 19, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. MIT Sloan School's Erik Brynjolfsson recently addressed a workshop of executives on how to increase the chances of success of big analytics initiatives. His perspective was to focus on the processes. In all the classroom discussions that surfaced around the big issues from big data — … [Read more...]
Living Life by Numbers
June 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: June 28, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Our world is becoming more numbers driven. We've seen the trend at work, with the emphasis on analytics and the mining of data from our data warehouses. But a recent blog by author and senior researcher at Babson Executive Education, H. James Wilson, articulates how data has begun … [Read more...]
Innovation Strategy at Starbucks: Fail Fast and Learn
June 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: June 7, 2013Welcome to our Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend.Innovation, particularly technology-based innovation, is the lifeblood of organizational growth and therefore a critical part of the CIO's agenda. A recent Fast Company article, Risky Innovation: Will Starbucks’s Leap of Faith Pay Off?, by author Austin Carr, chronicles the … [Read more...]
Managing New Ways to Work
April 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: April 19, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. A recent Harvard Business Review article by Tammy Johns and London Business School Professor Lynda Gratton suggests that there have been 3 waves of change in the way knowledge workers work in their article, The Third Wave of Virtual Work. In three major waves of change over the past … [Read more...]
Building A ‘Touch First’ Business Model
March 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: March 1, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Our thought for today comes from an article written by Ewan Duncan, a McKinsey consultant, published in the Economist. The article, Moving from “Mobile First” to “Touch First” documents research that McKinsey and Company has conducted on fundamental changes in the way people interact … [Read more...]
Hiring for Teams: The Whole Foods Approach
February 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline February 8, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently Fortune Magazine published an excerpt of the new book by Whole Foods CEO John Mackey and colleague Raj Sisodia, Conscious Capitalism, describing key components of the Whole Foods management philosophy. A key part of this philosophy is the hiring and management of … [Read more...]
