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Is Your Organization Digitally Mature?

Leading Blog

They note that the idea of tightly aligning an organization's people, tasks, structure, and culture is not new; it plays out differently because the conditions under which those management principles operate has changed. Today’s leaders need to lead through influence rather than through command and control.

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How to Lead a Redneck

Lead Change Blog

So, Jeff’s non-stop one-liners were funny: “You might be a redneck…if there are more than five McDonald’s bags in your car…if the Home Shopping Network operator recognizes your voice…id the taillight covers of your car are made of red tape…if you financed a tattoo, or if you’ve ever been involved in a custody fight over a hunting dog.”.

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How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 7 Years

Harvard Business Review

By 2017 it was operating in over 190 countries, and today close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. The choice of those markets was influenced by their degree of attractiveness, such as from shared similarities, the presence of affluent consumers, and the availability of broadband internet.

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How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 8 Years

Harvard Business Review

It operates in over 190 countries, and close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. The choice of those markets was influenced by their degree of attractiveness, such as from shared similarities, the presence of affluent consumers, and the availability of broadband internet.

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How to Set Up an AI R&D Lab

Harvard Business Review

Each business carries its own unique challenges and requirements, from proprietary data types to operational constraints and compliance requirements, which may require additional customization and scientific progress. Each practice serves to influence the other. This makes AI an extremely high-risk, high-return pursuit.

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Great Corporate Strategies Thrive on the Right Amount of Tension

Harvard Business Review

A turnaround subsequently lowered strategic stress to a productive level by discontinuing many of their seemingly unrelated projects, re-focusing on their core business, as well as streamlining operational processes that improved coordination activities. Strategic Boredom (not enough strategic stress).

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Guest Post: Change Management Models

Change Starts Here

Some of us are “innovators” or “early adopters” whilst others are “laggards” The vast majority of us sit in the middle of the population as “The early or late majority” Again this is a people led model of change. What had I missed? So what has my surfing taught me?

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