The data-driven enterprise of 2025
By 2025, smart workflows and seamless interactions among humans and machines will likely be as standard as the corporate balance sheet, and most employees will use data to optimize nearly every aspect of their work. Seven characteristics will define this new data driven enterprise, and we’ve already seen many companies exhibit at least some of them, with many more beginning the journey to do so. This guide is intended to help executives understand the characteristics of the new data-driven enterprise and the capabilities they enable. It also provides resources to dive deeper on how to embed them in your organization.
Systems thinking – What, why, when
If you’re intrigued by the possibility of looking at business problems in new ways, you may not know how to go about actually using these principles and tools. The following tips are designed to get you started, whether you’re trying to introduce systems thinking in your company or attempting to implement the tools in an organization that already supports this approach.
6 ways team leaders inspire creativity and innovation
Continuous change is the norm in most organisations today. Companies are constantly innovating and working to stay ahead of their competition and, in some cases, just to sustain in a changing marketplace. So how to you inspire creativity and innovation?
6 problem solving mindsets for very uncertain times
Knowing how to solve any problem thrown your way is a uniquely valuable skill and great problem solvers are made bit born. Six mutually reinforcing approaches underly success: (1) being ever-curious about every element of a problem; (2) being imperfectionists, with a high tolerance for ambiguity; (3) having a “dragonfly eye” view of the world, to see through multiple lenses; (4) pursuing occurrent behavior and experimenting relentlessly; (5) tapping into the collective intelligence, acknowledging that the smartest people are not in the room; and (6) practicing “show and tell” because storytelling begets action (exhibit).
Creating an innovation culture
With industry disruption and tech changes accelerating, Corning’s Silicon Valley Technology Chief shares how to stay creative over the long haul.
Why digital transformation is now on the CEO’s shoulders
Big data, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence hold such disruptive power that they have inverted the dynamics of technology leadership.
From strategic intent to business impact
This article explores how to make strategy work, and outlines 5 guiding principles for implementing strategy.
The adaptable mind
The Adaptable Mind asks the question: what are the skills we need to flourish in the 21st Century? Los Angeles-based professor and artist, Mary Beth Heffernan, was listening to coverage of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and how isolating and traumatic it must be for patients to interact only with hazmat suits for weeks on end.
She thought, “what if they put pictures of their faces on the front of the suits?” Thousands of hurdles later, Mary Beth’s story reveals that, while there is a lot of fear that technology is displacing our jobs, the skills we need most in the 21st Century — curiosity, creativity, taking initiative, multi-disciplinary thinking, and empathy — happen to be skills that machines don’t have; only humans have.
The 8 essentials of innovation
Strategic and organisational factors are what separate successful big-company innovators from the rest of the field. What are our innovation leaders doing right?
Using Lego serious play as design thinking
Lego bricks have been part of the childhood of many people and many adults still enjoy playing with it, which promotes it to become one of the thinking tools.