Breaking Through Buzzword Clutter: Complexity

23 January, 2022
Purposeful Innovation, Productivity, Knowledge Management, Communication
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Complexity means different things to different people in different conversations. Are we trying to simplify a process? Complexity is bad. Understand a supply chain? Complexity is good. Don't buzzword your initiatives with "complexity" until you get a wee bit more specific.

Four Technology Insights for Engaging Remote Teams

Collaboration is a participation sport. To make it all work, everyone needs to change their behavior. And if you want your new technology tools to drive the process forward, you need to practice using them – every chance you get.

5 Powerful Tactics for Engaged Remote Teams

Distributed teams, working out of the office, are becoming the norm. Much has been written about building effective remote teams – but are they truly engaged remote teams? Here are five things high-powered teams (and their leaders) must do to succeed (no technology required).

Servant Leadership: Breakthrough Ideas on Customer Service

The traditional org chart is all wrong. It puts the people that work directly with your customer at the lowest position on the pyramid. This makes the customer the least important person in the picture. Servant Leadership will flip that pyramid. What if your leaders saw their primary mission as support for those closest to the customer? What kind of difference would that have on customer loyalty and satisfaction?

Creating Digital Value for Employees

Your digital transformation needs a compelling answer to a simple question: Why? This article talks about creating digital value by building a Great Company, with Employee Engagement as a guiding metric. (Part of a series of articles about Enterprise Value Creation for Digital Business.)

How to Overcome Three Tough Challenges for Enterprise Collaboration

Many enterprises find it difficult to sustain active collaboration environments that match the fervor of their internet-based inspirations. In this article, we look at three root cause challenges, and how the right Leadership moves can deal with the challenges and realize the benefits.

How to Develop your Digital Superstars

10 March, 2019
Skills Development and Training, People Management
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Training and development takes some time – but you can build an environment that promotes self-guided work, enabling this type of thinking in a straightforward way.

The Human Elements Connecting your Digital Business

A great Digital Business cannot sustain itself when it relies on one or two key people that have all the magic; it is a connected, engaged team of people that come together, with a shared vision , to deliver results.

Digital Business and Your Team: Talent and Engagement

To truly excel in a digital business, your internal Team must be present, participating, and truly engaged. This important component of your Great Digital Business will be a big differentiator.

“Remember, Scrooge, Time is Short …

... and suddenly you're not there any more." - The Ghost of Christmas Present, enjoying a memento mori moment A repeating theme in my feed reader has been the drive to "work different"; clunky grammar aside, we need to change the way we communicate and collaborate, increase our focus on innovation, and spend less time in pointless meetings. On that latter point, I read this article on my latest flight; Mankins talks about the galling amount of time spent in…