The Center For Leadership Studies

DECEMBER 4, 2020

As organizations redefine their talent development strategies, many are looking to outsource custom learning development to accelerate and enhance their offerings. Endurance in the business of custom learning development is a key indicator that a provider is agile, innovative, responsive and able to consistently exceed client expectations.

Compliance 83

Compliance Training Industry Learning-by-Doing 83

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Organizations deploy automation technologies as the primary resource in their Business Process Management. Gone are the days were BPO meant Business Process Outsourcing, with Robotic Process Automation technology fueling new millennium enterprises, BPO has taken on a new meaning, Business Process Optimization.

Engineering 50

Engineering Process BPM Taylorism 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Broadly speaking, public company CFOs are more likely to outsource cyber-security to third-party firms, while private CFOs tend to invest in in-house IT teams. Private companies, by contrast, are less aware and agile in terms of prevention and response; protecting their brand, for example, or proactively communicating with clients.

Chief Technology Officer 78

Chief Technology Officer Short-term How To Long-term 78

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. The result is different data definitions, inconsistent business logics, multiple workarounds, unrealized synergies, redundancy, re-invention rather than re-use, and a myriad of different technologies. Agility cannot be achieved without first tackling complexity.

System 8

System Enterprise Architecture Agility Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

The same diminished economic frictions, along with new business models, organizational structures and enabling technologies, have accelerated the appearance of new, unanticipated competitors with new value propositions or the old value propositions presented faster, better and/or cheaper. Barriers to entry have been destroyed.

CIO 8

CIO CEO Outsourcing Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Never confuse charisma with leadership. They listen as well as they speak. The key to that is to build a sustainable culture. Directness.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as merely developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it. CIOs must be an integral and vocal part of conversations on new ventures and resource allocation.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8