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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. Approximately 89 percent of organizations have already adopted a digital-first business strategy.

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Research Shows That Investing In Tech Matters

The Horizons Tracker

It helps organizations use their resources well and keep cash flowing smoothly. It’s influenced by factors like complex supply chains, many suppliers, different products, and uncertain technology. The research looked at 1,054 American manufacturing companies from 2011 to 2013.

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2014 Reflections: The Path of my Life and Business

Lead Change Blog

On July 11, 2013, I fell and severely broke both bones in my lower left leg. Jeff has been developing leaders for nearly 20 years and has led the execution of over 100,000 hours of business strategy for information technology, financial services and non-profit organizations.

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How Can Innovation Be Better Disseminated?

The Horizons Tracker

In a recent article, I highlighted some of the challenges involved in translating investment in technology and innovation into productivity improvements across the economy. In an age of smartphones, AI, and genetics, it seems crazy to think that the record sums invested in technology aren’t making more of an impact. in 1992.

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Target’s Fall Guy: Is Your Board Prepared?

N2Growth Blog

The primary reason stated was because of the continued fall-out from the 2013 massive data breach. Some say hackers broke into to the Target organization through the system of one of their suppliers, a seemingly innocuous HVAC company. What if the board does not have technology expertise? But where is the technology savvy?

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Will The Future Of Work Require More Investment In Technology, Not Less?

The Horizons Tracker

In 2018 MIT created a ‘Task Force on the Work of the Future’ to explore the way technologies are impacting the world of work, and how society can adapt to ensure that prosperity is broadly shared throughout. At MIT, we are inspired by the idea that technology can be a force for good. A polarized workforce.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

Think about it: how organizations are run in 2014 is radically different from how they were run just ten years ago. And, the winner of the 2013 Thinkers50, Clay Christensen, now sees his ideas of disruptive innovation used and applied by managers in their relentless quest for competitive advantage.