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How to Ensure Your Organization’s Digital Transformation Succeeds

Leading Blog

I N THE AGE of digitization, businesses face a critical imperative: to adapt and embrace innovation or risk being left behind in a rapidly evolving world. This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models.

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An Interview with Diane Gherson, CHRO at IBM, on Driving Organizational Transformation

HR Digest

Diane Gherson is a trailblazer when it comes to introducing agile technologies in the gamut of Human Resources. She has shifted the focus of HR in IBM from rigid to agile policies that are fast-paced, digital-centric and reciprocal and has replaced traditional HR methods with agile tools. IBM was no exception.

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The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013

Harvard Business Review

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. Luckily, Susan David and Christina Congleton explain how you can learn to do a better job of managing your thoughts and emotions in Emotional Agility.

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5 Pitfalls of Marketing Waterfalls

Strategy Driven

Note: I fully recognize CPG companies do not fit this business model, but there are trillions of dollars represented in many other categories that do). In 2013, the Marketing Sherpa B2B Analytics Study revealed that 63% do nothing or occasionally leverage data to gain any insight. About the Author.

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How Watson Changed IBM

Harvard Business Review

More than 2,500 developers and start-ups have reached out to the IBM Watson Group since the Watson Developers Cloud was launched in November 2013. First, with multiple business models. Mike Rhodin , IBM’s senior vice president responsible for Watson, told me, “There are three core business models that we will run in parallel.

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Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?

Harvard Business Review

This becomes particularly important in the context of cyber-crime and the alarming rise of business models being held for ransom or political gain. Between 2013 and 2015 cyber-crime costs quadrupled, with the reported incidence rate growing exponentially.

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The Metamorphosis of the CIO

Harvard Business Review

This will lead to new business models, new processes, more meaningful business interactions, innovation, improved and faster decision making, and a more agile organization. Innovation is the key to the future — innovation in business models, business processes as well as products and services.

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