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These companies failed because leaders did not want to hear bad news: The Ostrich Effect

Idea to Value

We had a target to hit, and I was responsible for producing the reporting for the rest of the leadership team (of which he was one), but as time went on it became clearer and clearer that it would be impossible to hit the target, which would have an impact on the overall team budget. The fear that froze the company came from two places.

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Uncharted Waters Disrupting the Corporate Boardrooms

Paul Hobcraft

When you read a report that has within its executive summary this: “ In combination the boards stand unarmed to enter the battlefield of future business creation in a disrupted world ” it makes you want to read on. It examined the role of innovation in company strategy and its strategic importance on the board’s agenda.

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The secret to this government department’s innovation success: Small teams

Idea to Value

[Editor’s note: I did the math, and $86bn is more than the 2015 GDP of 125 countries!]. As Van Dyck put it: When the status quo is failure, there is simply no other choice apart from radical disruption. Give them “air cover” from leadership all the way to the top. How did it go?

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Leading In A World of Disruption

Daniel Burrus

In today’s world of technology-driven transformation, leaders need to embrace a new leadership principle if they want their organization to be relevant today and in the future. But digital disruption from the outside-in has been coming at an ever-increasing speed, and it’s only getting faster.

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Dow and DuPont – Nobody wins when transactions replace leadership

Adam Hartung

duPont as a gunpowder manufacturer for the revolutionary war, the company has long been one of America’s leading business institutions. But in a series of fast actions during 2015, DuPont as it has been known is going away. And it is too bad the leadership wasn’t in place to save it. Founded by e.i. By October, Ms.

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Digital Transformation Combines Customer Experience and Operational Efficiency

Integrative Innovation

In 2015 and 2017, research by Peter Weill and Stephanie L. Their performance averaged 16 percentage points better than their industry average, meaning that if the average net profit margin for a company in a given industry was 8%, future-ready enterprises earned 24%. CIOs are a good choice to lead Pathway 1.

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You Are Being Digitally Disrupted – Do Something About It

The Inovo Group

In 10-15 years time, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) could be helping to run your company. And research has indicated that only 10-20% of companies are prepared for this transition. How do the transformations that are emerging today impact business performance and how does a company not get left hopelessly behind?