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To Drive Digital Transformation, Focus on People

Strategy Driven

Businesses from top global firms to main street staples are looking into a future driven by new technology capabilities. organizational structure (such decentralizing and aligning technology to business areas more effectively), and governance. Training Leadership can be taught, though it’s not easy or cheap.

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Two Easy Ways to Boost Employee Engagement

Michael Lee Stallard

Vineet Nayar of HCL Technologies pioneered the concept of Employee first and customer second. This concept helps maximizing employee potential by encouraging trust through transparency, decentralizing decision-making and inverting the organizational hierarchy. About Michael Find out about Michaels latest book, Fired Up or Burned Out.

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Laying Groundwork: How Do Leaders Create Positive Company Culture?

CO2

You may have a comprehensive rule book, a checklist, and an operating manual, but without the right positive corporate cultural attributes, those concrete instructions and processes will not work. When your culture is strong, people seem to genuinely enjoy their work and the people they work with; they tend to do their work well and on time.

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Laying Groundwork: How Do Leaders Create Positive Company Culture?

CO2

You may have a comprehensive rule book, a checklist, and an operating manual, but without the right positive corporate cultural attributes those concrete instructions and processes will not work. Technology / Offering (Make different). Innovation is as good a way as any to build effective cultures. Strategy/Management (Sell different).

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New Technologies Won’t Reduce Scarcity, but Here’s Something That Might

Harvard Business Review

In a book titled Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?, But Lieberman and Fry have some good news: modern technology can address the root of the problem. They believe that we compete when there is scarcity, and that recent technological advances, such as 3D printing and artificial intelligence, will end widespread scarcity.

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We Still Don’t Know the Difference Between Change and Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Given the amount of research that business schools have dedicated to understanding change management, the number of books and articles published on the subject, and the investment that companies have made in consultants and training, one would think that we would be doing better by now. The change affected hundreds of people.

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Making Management as Simple as Frisbee

Harvard Business Review

Take Apple and the work it put into building a technology platform on which hundreds of thousands of independent developers could create apps and offer them to Apple''s customers. If a dog is trained to take only the steps its master commands, it won''t catch the Frisbee. See the chart for a more thorough list of differences.).