Leading Blog
MARCH 12, 2021
T O THRIVE in a new, more tumultuous era of social tension, economic nationalism, and technological revolution, you need to go beyond great. And third is “a technological revolution fueled by the exponential growth of global data and digital technologies.”. Strategy #7: Get Focused, Fast, and Flat.
The Horizons Tracker
MARCH 23, 2020
Yet, our study suggests that digitalisation, upstart competitors, the need for breakneck speed and agility, and an increasingly diverse and demanding workforce demand more from leaders than what most can offer. Timing : Creating an appropriate sequence and roadmaps for deploying new technology.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 18, 2015
This is just one example of how Mars is trying to create and sustaining agility through competitive intelligence (CI). This means identifying risks and opportunities early enough to allow the company to adapt its strategy or in extreme cases, change it. To become more agile, s tart by rethinking your competitive intelligence process.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 21, 2013
Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. Their strategic use of information technology (IT) presaged the dot.com boom of the 1990s when the Internet made this kind of online ordering commonplace. Now, instead, at ING they say, "Here''s your team.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
Take Sarah, the head of IT at a global technology company. Her job was to develop new engagement technologies in her organization, but instead of embracing critical feedback on her ideas, she ignored it. Chief among these are courage, resilience and agility in the face of change. And it hurts your image as a leader.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 22, 2017
Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself.
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. Define Your Strategy. To that end, the role of the CIO must be strategic instead of tactical.
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