What’s your CIO legacy? Deloitte has some ideas for you
The digital opportunity More than finance, marketing, HR or operations chiefs, CIOs have a better grasp of how to drive digital transformation because they understand that what goes on…
2017’s Top Business Risks
If fears about a year forward are gripping we adult during night, you’re in good company: Corporate house members and executive leaders have copiousness on their minds these days, according…
When More Innovation Isn’t Your Best Option
The more innovation, the better. That seems to be the going mantra. After all, who wouldn’t want to come up with something new? You can gain additional share of…
The Profile of a Modern B2B Customer and What It Means For You
In order to succeed as a salesperson, you need to know exactly who your customer is. This includes information you can research yourself, such as this person’s company, job…
Understanding Emerging Innovation by Reviewing the Past
We tend to be very short-sighted, we corporate executives. Our lifespans are relatively brief, all things considered. There are over 240 years since the founding of the United States, and using a…
3 Strategic Failures that Undermine Momentum
Today’s changing workplace requires a strategy that every employee, external partner, client, and customer, can embrace. Workplace transformation must account for the impact of change both inside (employees) and…
5 Customer Experience Mistakes Hurting Your Brand
Someone once said, “To keep a customer demands as much skill as to win one.” This is true for not only the service you are delivering to customers, but in…
The Social Intrapreneurship
Emmanuel de Lutzel is VP Social Business at BNP Paribas, and an active a social intrapreneur. Why is social intrapreneurship an important topic today ? EdL: My intrapreneurial journey…
Pulling the Triggers That Pull Companies
Since Cesare Mainardi and I published Strategy That Works: How Winning Companies Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap (Harvard Business Press, 2016), a lot of businesspeople have told us that they feel…
How This Successful Company Simplified the Business Consulting Industry
The following excerpt is from Richard Koch and Greg Lockwood’s book Simplify. As a strategy simplifier, Boston Consulting Group transformed the business world. Not only did it spawn a…
We Need To Accelerate Innovation
For most of its history, the United States was a backwater. At the turn of the 20th century, a promising young student would often need to go to Europe to…
What is the Appropriate Combination of Innovation Types in Your Portfolio?
It can be difficult to find the right balance of innovation types in your portfolio. The mix with the highest overall return varies by industry, competitive position, and most…
Digital Transformations Start with Frontline Workers
Recently, one of the largest hotel chains in the world transformed itself with digital technology — for the second time. By all accounts, the first effort had been a failure.…
Ikea Brilliantly Reveals The Psychology Behind Its Products
Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. You likely thought it was just a bunch of chilly Swedes…
The 3 Secrets Of Managing A Great Board
It’s no secret that a well-chosen board can bring a multitude of benefits to your business. It can add clout, open doors. It can have the power to lend relationships,…
9 US Brands to Watch in 2017
Denise Lee Yohn is a brand expert and author of the book, What Great Brands Do. She recently posted a list of the 26 brands to watch in 2017, conveniently…
How To Transform Your Consulting Business
Consulting companies go out of business when they consult themselves into their own grave and only grasp what’s happening when it’s too late to stop. What the hell am…
Corporate Innovation Ventures: Separation vs. Integration
Probably the most critical structural ingredient for innovation capability is how new ventures – internal as well as external ones – are to be implemented in the organization in order…
CIOs Face Tough Digital Transformation Challenge
IT leaders are grappling with how to cost-effectively transform their organization into a digital enterprise even though they are being limited by traditional enterprise thinking. Many struggle to achieve the…
How Inefficient Processes Are Hurting Your Company
Companies today are burdened by siloed, difficult-to-use business systems that complicate processes and hamper operations. According to market research firm IDC, companies lose 20 to 30 percent in revenue every…