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Organizational Transformation Requires Leadership at all Levels

Great Leadership By Dan

These organizations have developed strong transformation capability. Leadership in actively and effectively engaging with key stakeholders and sustaining their buy-in ensures the expected business outcomes are realized at each phase or stage gate of the organizational transformation.

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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

Leading Blog

True, we can point to the fact that airplanes are massively engineered for reliability, but let’s look beyond the machinery. It’s helpful to first understand the various stages involved in improving business processes. We recommend doing this in stages, as opposed to a “big bang.” Handoff errors would result.

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50 Ways to Leave your Lover: Keep Failing Til the Last Thing You Try Is Successful

Mills Scofield

There is a big difference between “knowing that you can” and “deciding that you want to” and at Bettcher we use a toll gate product development process fashioned after Robert Cooper’s StageGate process. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins.

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

Bill Gates’ vision for Microsoft (“A computer on every desk and in every home”) would have been a lot less tangible had he written it as: “Becoming a world leader in the software industry.” Another framework for developing a mission statement is to ask three questions: 1) What do we do really well as a company?

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

Bill Gates’ vision for Microsoft (“A computer on every desk and in every home”) would have been a lot less tangible had he written it as: “Becoming a world leader in the software industry.”. Another framework for developing a mission statement is to ask three questions: 1) What do we do really well as a company?

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The Kinds of Data Scientist

Harvard Business Review

Depending on the engineering background of these data scientists, these work products are either deployed directly to the production system, or if they are prototypes they are handed off to software engineers to help implement, optimize and scale them. The elusive full stack data scientists do exist, though they are hard to find.

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Innovation's Nine Critical Success Factors

Harvard Business Review

Unless people understand why innovation is necessary, it always loses to core business or the performance engine in the battle for resources. The performance engine is bigger, is the center of power, and can justify resources based on short term financial results. It is about developing hypotheses about the future.