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Balancing Innovation and Governance: The CDO’s Dilemma

N2Growth Blog

On the one hand, businesses aim for innovation, competitiveness, and agility in leveraging data. Consequently, speed and agility in decision-making are achieved, optimizing the overall data management process. Furthermore, regulatory constraints can ensure that innovation is carried out to benefit all stakeholders involved.

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Strategic planning must change with the times

N2Growth Blog

Priority on Drivers, not Outcomes: Typically there are too many initiatives identified as necessary to realize an organizations strategy, and more than can be done within time and financial constraints. For most organizations, cross silo cooperation is an unnatural act. In the new paradigm it is a core capability.

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Why Innovators Love Constraints

Harvard Business Review

Nearly a decade later, I find myself almost a fan of constraints. High-tech giant Adobe recently opened a striking new building in Lehi, Utah specifically designed to create an ecology of planned and unplanned cooperation and innovation among its employees. Constraints lead to faster feedback. 1 in C Major.