CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Literacy exercises and educational sessions rotate between feature launches, demonstrating the clear link between our team and building an MVP,” Rizwan says. These exercises repeatedly reinforce the connection between the CFO’s team and value creation to signal the role IT plays in the overall business strategy, he adds.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

When I speak to groups about innovation, I love to use random entry exercises. Every single time I’ve run the exercise, it just works! You might have to suspend reality , but you also create something that rallies the troops and excites the stakeholders. That brings us back to concepts of lateral thinking.

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TechFides Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Governments are expected to provide and enforce the structure for internal and external commerce and manage foreign relations and trade agreements. Yes, but it requires careful long-term strategic planning, impeccable due diligence, deep experience and expertise, and meticulous change management (for starters). Short answer?

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Perficient

APRIL 29, 2024

This is an exercise in empathy and understanding. Just like in our digital projects, making something “easy” for the user takes a whole hell of a lot of effort for the rest of us. We don’t attain excellence by taking the shortest path. If you want to clear the path for your team, then you must make the effort yourself.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

The podcast not only highlights successful initiatives but also addresses challenges, offering practical advice for leaders to create a more equitable and diverse organizational culture. The podcast is available on major platforms including Spotify and Apple Podcasts, as well as on the McKinsey Insights app.

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Change Starts Here

JULY 9, 2013

By the end of 2011, the company had gained some ground, but it was clear a change in management style and better decisions at the top would not be enough to realize the improvements that were needed to turn the company around. But the team knew things needed to change if the company was going to not only survive, but thrive.

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The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

COVID may turn out to be the greatest global catalyst of socio-economic change since the middle of the 20th century. As the pandemic has continued and the numbers have risen, the chattering classes are now asking what the lasting changes will be.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

This post presents a few guiding principles to understand before undertaking a restructuring exercise. Culturally, make clear that an outstanding individual performance is a hollow (and dubious) victory in a failed team. This is a continuation of a series I left off in December 2009 on Restructuring IT.

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The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2016

We'll build the platform first, then change the organization once it's live. Employees will see replatforming as an exercise in re-creating software. Changing culture, capability and mind-set requires a major transfusion; be prepared to lose a lot of blood.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 13, 2011

Episode 39 – Making Change Work: A Radical Approach to Change Management, Real Leadership explores what true leadership is and how it is effectively applied throughout the change management process. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 18, 2011

Real ownership of a performance measure means an individual is not only accountable for the performance indicated but is dedicated to improving that performance over time.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 30, 2013

Knowledge sharing exercises were canceled due to last minute "customer emergencies". Account managers controlled and outright blocked access to customers. A patient manager, whether unitarist or pluralist, can break the stalemate by rebuilding the culture. This removes barriers to change.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Futurism is not an academic exercise that borders on the esoteric or gets stuck in the realm of hypothesis. Futurism: ideas that inspire, manage and benchmark change. It is a compendium book, containing quotes and extrapolations into business culture, arranged in 76 business categories.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 12, 2011

But to get a sense of how hard it is for your brain to switch tasks, try to quickly name the color of the letters in each word in the following image: When the attendees at my workshops try a few brain exercises like this one, they become convinced to modify their habits.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 19, 2011

Get physical exercise. The good news is that when we take the right kind of breaks, our brains are still unconsciously working on the problem at hand. Brain-enhancing breaks are of the low-information variety. They don’t add to the overload you’re already experiencing. So get up and walk around during a break rather than staying put.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2011

Assign them work that complements their strengths and conduct team building exercises to boost morale. Staff satisfaction is critical to your project’s success. So keep your team happy by rewarding and recognizing them for their successes. With a happy motivated team, you can achieve anything! And there you have it.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Among the lessons which we learned from the Y2K Bug exercise were: When they want to do so, company leadership will provide sufficient resources to plan for the future, including crisis management and preparedness (of which computer glitches are one set of “what ifs.”).

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

It requires us to build and exercise new muscles. We can’t just wake up one morning and become selfless leaders. It takes practice and discipline. Selflessness often goes against our natural instincts for self-preservation. We have to look for opportunities, both big and small, to practice selflessness.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Our culture hears and believes the hype, without looking beyond the obvious. My analysis: To facilitate enhancement, focus upon quality time with the family, hobbies, reading, exercise, gardening and entertaining guests. The public also loves to see celebrities, products, trends and cultural icons fall just as quickly as they rise.

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