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How to Ensure Your Organization’s Digital Transformation Succeeds

Leading Blog

This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models. In 2013, Nokia’s mobile phone business was sold to Microsoft. First, why do these programs fail? Nokia just couldn’t keep up. This raises some pertinent questions.

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Avoiding The Technology Trap In The Future Of Work

The Horizons Tracker

Oxford University researchers Carl Benedikt Frey shot to public attention in 2013 when he and colleague Michael Osborne released research in which they predicted that 47% of jobs could be automated within the next decade or so. Technology at Work. I was understandably curious therefore to see if Technology at Work 4.0

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. “Great CHROs are worth their weight in gold.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results. Women lean in The other big story in the 2013 Thinkers50 was the increased number of women featured.

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The Worst CEOs of 2012: What did we Learn?

Great Leadership By Dan

This post first appeared 1/24/2013 on SmartBlog on Leadership : The year 2013 has begun, and with it a new year of scrutinizing CEO performance. s poor performers to see what we can learn for this year. Sydney Finkelstein, a professor at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business, has been doing his list for three years now.

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Succession Planning: Not Just for Older Leaders

N2Growth Blog

billion as of March 2013 (per Forbes Magazine.) It is essentially impossible not to and this is particularly true in the ever-changing and evolving technology industry. Appropriate and carefully selected and strategic change at the top can do much to resuscitate an organization. years as of 2011 from 10 years in 2000.

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Leading in a World of Change: Lessons from Downton Abbey

Great Leadership By Dan

But it’s not easy to turn off my daytime mind – and I recently realized that my business clients can learn important and very relevant lessons, even from that distant world. You can read more on mastering this difficult balancing act in the Hay Group 2013 Best Companies for Leadership study.