Corporate Innovation and the Hierarchy of Information Needs
Master the hierarchy of information requirements to unleash corporate innovation, with insights into problem-solving and the importance of knowledge management.
Capturing Knowledge: A Critical Requirement for Corporate Innovation
Drilling into the important role of capturing knowledge in promoting corporate innovation, highlighting the importance of creation & curation, sharing & collaboration, and impactful use.
Unleashing Corporate Innovation: Identifying the Constraints
Corporate innovation struggles, and not from a lack of ideas or capital. More often, the constraints are time and attention.
Navigating Buzzword Overload: Complexity
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
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.