Dateline: April 22, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Building a culture of analytics combines change management with technical competence. Running the organization by numbers and data is not always understood or accepted. Recently, one of my International Institute of Analytics colleagues, Bill Franks, wrote a thought provoking … [Read more...]
Toxic Habits of an Organization
Dateline: January 17, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. January seems to be a time of taking stock of ourselves and doing a personal inventory of our strengths and our opportunities for growth. Recently, Fast Company published a blog titled, "How to Turn your Toxic Habits into Better Patterns of Behavior" and that caught my … [Read more...]
Change is Possible with Reinforcing Processes
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...]
Leading Change Takes More Than Just a Great Leader
Dateline: April 5, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. A recent blog on the HBR Blog Network (published by Harvard Business Review) featured a thought piece entitled, "Change Management is Bigger than Leadership" by Wharton Adjunct Professor Gregory Shea and his associate, Cassie Solomon (they are authors of a new book, Leading Successful … [Read more...]