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“Nearly every organization - whether private, social, or governmental - is grappling with huge strategic challenges, often with a need to reimagine its very purpose, identity, strategy, business model, and structure,” writes Harvard emeritus professor Michael Beer in his recently published book Fit for Competition. “Most of these efforts to transform will fail. Do we have the capabilities to execute the strategy? MORE
Today I want to continue my commentary on strategy started following yesterday’s workshop; feedback from the client is that we “exceeded expectations” which is satisfying. The post Stockholm syndrome in strategy appeared first on Cognitive Edge. StrategyOne of the key issues identified by Clayton Christian is that past competence creates the conditions for future failure. MORE
It’s a win-win: Through what we call connected strategies, customers get a dramatically improved experience, and companies boost operational efficiencies and lower costs.”. The article proposes four connected strategies to help develop a continued relationship between a company and its customers: respond to desire, curated offering, coach behavior, and automatic execution. Let me summarize the key elements of each of these strategies. MORE
“Organizations must be willing to challenge the status quo and reexamine their existing content strategy, processes and tools to stay ahead of the curve,” says Xyleme Chief Operating Officer Leslie Farinella. Leslie Farinella has more than 15 years of experience as a training strategy and design consultant, working with such organizations as GE, Citigroup, Johnson & Johnson, and Nielsen. Bringing Reuse & Flexibility to Enterprise. Content Management. MORE
We’re tempted to abandon long-term strategy and fall back on rapid adaptation as the only winning game – sense and respond quickly enough to events as they occur and everything will be OK. But adaptation as a strategy is fraught with risk. The option is to focus more than ever on three core strategy questions that can help provide us with focus and stability even as the turbulence increases around us – and help us to prioritize where we need to respond and where we don’t. MORE
I would now like to discuss another excellent talk at the same conference, - How Platforms Change Strategy by Boston University professor Marshall Van Alstyne , also based on a recently published book, Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets are Transforming the Economy and How to Make Them Work for You , co-authored with Geoffrey Parker and Sanjeet Choudary. Is it likely all 7 incumbents had failed strategies, run by clueless management, lacking execution capabilities?,” MORE
Today I delivered a half day workshop on Creating a KM Strategy and I have, as promised, loaded the slides to our web site for those interested. I'm back at KM World in Washington having keynoted at the event for well over a decade now. Once it was virtual and I was represented on stage by a pumpkin, but I've learnt my lesson from that and now I turn up! MORE
It first takes an awareness of the problems (my old line: “L&D isn’t doing near what it could and should, and what it is doing it is doing badly, other than that things are fine” :), and then a strategy to move forward. The strategy depends on where the organization is to begin with, but there are systematic principles to guide progress. The post Learning Strategy Issues appeared first on Learnlets. meta-learning strategy MORE
When I look back upon my long career , one of the major factors shaping my views of business, strategy and innovation is the creative destruction that I saw buffeting the IT industry over most of that time. Is it that in spite of all their efforts in strategy formulation, their management was unable to anticipate them and were caught by surprise? In subsequent years, I was invited to come to their meetings and discuss strategies I was working on from time to time. MORE
I recently read an article by strategy consultant and writer Ken Favaro which nicely explained how to best think about strategy in today’s business environment. Many business leaders subscribe to the classic definition of strategy as a set of actions designed to achieve an overall aim,” wrote Favaro in The Trouble with Putting Goals Ahead of Strategy , published in strategy+business in 2015. “In other words, they believe strategy starts with a goal. MORE
The biggest change in my understanding of design after joining Capital One, by far, is how I understand the importance and nature of content strategy in my design work. I honestly can’t understand how I’ve gone as long as I have without really digging into content strategy; it just seems so obvious now. dotorg_ideas +g Design Strategy +g Experience Strategy +guides Uncategorized MORE
You're reading fresh content from Dan Pontefract at Brave New Org: Discussing the importance of pausing and taking the time to dream, Bill McDermott, CEO of high-tech company SAP, once said in an interview, “Most people. Dan's Related Posts: Is Your Corporate Culture The Root Cause Of Bad Meetings? The Cognitive Era Is Cool But I’d Like To See The Human Era First. Sadly, The Importance Of Importance Is Now What’s Most Important. MORE
This year’s Symposium will be focused on the challenges of executing a digital transformation strategy. It’s no longer enough to have formulated a digital strategy for the business. Why do so many organizations struggle to implement their well formulated strategies, especially transformational strategies like the transition to digital, that encompass new technologies, business models and management practices? The 2018 MIT CIO Symposium will take place on May 23. MORE
Which of course, begs the question of just what LXD strategy is. What is LXD strategy ? LXD strategy is about ensuring that resources and practices are aligned to create experiences that meet real org needs under pragmatic constraints. The post LXD Strategy appeared first on Learnlets. design strategyIn the continuing process of resolving what I want to do when I grow up (rest assured, not happening), I’ve been toying with a concept. MORE
4 August - 12 September 2014 (6 weeks) In this fast moving age, it is no longer just about studying existing bodies of knowledge and acquiring existing skills in formal courses but adopting a new set of learning strategies (a) to “learn the new” and constantly discover new ideas, new thinking, new resources in order to stay up to […]. MORE
In an article , Jared Spool talks about the strategies he sees UX leaders using. He lists 3 examples, and talks about how your strategies need to change depending on where you are in relation to the organization. It made me think about what P&D strategies could and should be. Cynically, I called it the ‘bus’ strategy, e.g. in case someone was hit by a bus. This is an ‘internal’ strategy. This is more an external strategy. MORE
T he article reminds us that the trend is your friend is an old adage that applies to business strategy as well as to investing. The ability to anticipate where your industry is moving and to begin to reposition your company ahead of competitors is one of the most important elements of business strategy. Complex Systems Data Science and Big Data Economic Issues Innovation Management and Leadership Political Issues Society and Culture Technology and Strategy MORE
All of this seems a tipping point so I am also working with some colleagues on a complete strategy process including SenseMaker® that I hope to launch for the second quarter. The former advanced course, now the Cynefin Strategy and Resilience course is a key part of that. For the last year I have been experimenting with what we (foolishly) called an advanced course. I've taught it now for the best part of a year, both on my own and variously with Michael and Tony. MORE
FAST strategy So, the question is, how can we draw out and nurture this passion in business? There are many approaches, but I’m going to focus here on a distinctive approach to strategy, something that I call FAST strategy but that is also commonly known as a “zoom out, zoom in” approach to strategy. I’ve written about this approach to strategy here and here. In a nutshell, this approach to strategy focuses on two time horizons in parallel. MORE
In my last blog post , I suggested that we’re going through a big shift in strategy from strategies of terrain to strategies of trajectory. In that blog post, I made the case that strategies of terrain are increasingly dangerous in times of accelerating change, but I left you hanging in terms of what strategies of trajectory might look like. Most strategies (strategies of terrain) tend to look from the present out to the future. MORE
In that meeting we were looking at how to do strategy in the complex domain. For the moment I will focus on the use in strategy and start with some basic principles. Surfacing outlier ideas is more important in strategy than accepting the dominant or consensus view. The post Liminal & situated strategy appeared first on Cognitive Edge. MORE
In an insightful article, Ken Majer (full disclosure, a boss of mine many years ago) has written about the need to have the right culture before executing strategy. social strategyAnd this strikes me as a valuable contribution to thinking about effective change in the transformation of L&D in the Revolution. I have argued that you can get some benefits from the Revolution without having an optimized culture, but you’re not going to tap into the full potential. MORE
In a previous post , I talked about a couple of instances where I worked with folks to let them ‘pick my brain’ Those were about learning design in particular, but I’ve also worked with folks on strategy. In these strategy sessions, things work a little differently. So, in a typical strategy session, I prepare by looking at what they’ve done beforehand: any existing strategy documents. The post Strategy Sessions appeared first on Learnlets. MORE
Martin Nowak, a mathematical biologist, concludes The Evolution of Cooperation with the following winning strategy: What I find very interesting in these games of conditional reciprocity, direct and indirect reciprocity, we can make the point that winning strategies have the following three properties: they must be generous, hopeful and forgiving. If a strategy starts with defection, it’s not a winning strategy. MORE
There's a bit in there on blogging strategies, but the reality is that when I go back and look at my previous posts on what your personal strategy should be around blogging, I'm not finding that much. And one of the course members raised a really interesting question in the Forum around blogging strategies: Matthew, how has blogging changed the way you think? The reality is that as you blog, your blogging strategies are bound to shift. The third week of Web 2.0 MORE
Watch now to learn about the key elements of content strategy and the shifts in mindset required to move from a course-driven approach to an object-based approach that enables any type of learning, in any context, on any device. The post How to Create a Content Strategy that Resonates with the Modern Learner appeared first on Xyleme. Content Strategy LCMS Resources Videos content strategy learning content management system (LCMS In this webinar, Xyleme Sr. MORE
But, can AI help address broad, open-ended and ambiguous problems like developing and executing a competitive business strategy? Strategy typically involves a series of interrelated steps, including analyzing the overall business and market environment; setting one or more end goals; formulating a high level plan to achieve the end goals; and mobilizing resources to execute the plan. Strategies express what company leaders seek to emphasize and prioritize over a given time frame. MORE
So last week I was the strategy track coach for the Training 19 conference. That meant that I picked the sessions from a list of those who put their session proposals up for ‘strategy’, and could choose to open and/or close the track. And there were thoughts on strategy from the sessions and the attendees that are worth sharing. Finally, Alex Kinnebrew pushed for finding stakeholder voices as a complement to data in making strategy. design strategy MORE
At the DevLearn conference, I ran a Morning Buzz on Learning Design Strategy. I started with a set of questions to address, so I’ll go through their comments in roughly that order (though we didn’t exactly follow this structure): What is learning design strategy? These are all elements that indeed contribute to strategy. What gaps are we seeing in learning design strategy? The post Thoughts on Learning Design Strategy appeared first on Learnlets. MORE
In a recent discussion around HR strategy, the question arose about where to start. This was buttressed by a post pointed out to me by my ITA colleagues that was arguing a good design strategy was to find out what people needed. The post Top down or bottom up strategy? strategy technologyThat is, if you’ve bought into moving into the digital age, where do you begin. MORE
social strategy If you’re going to move towards the performance ecosystem, a technology-enabled workplace, where do you start? Partly it depends on where you’re at, as well as where you’re going, but it also likely depends on what type of org you are. While the longer term customization is very unique, I wondered if there were some meaningful categorizations. MORE
Which takes us to the last part, strategy. Tags: design strategy On our weekly twitter learning fest, #lrnchat , I regularly identify myself as a learning experience design strategist. I don’t always assume people know what that means, but for that audience I figure they can infer what it means. However, I think the idea is worth exploring, because increasingly I think that not only is that what I do, but it also is important. MORE
When technology and market environments go through major changes, as is certainly the case today, previously successful business strategies will no longer work, no matter how much you try to fix them. These questions are the subject of MIT Professor Michael Cusumano’s recent book Staying Power: Six Enduring Principles for Managing Strategy and Innovation in an Uncertain World. The book was named one of the best business books on strategy in 2011 by strategy+business magazine. MORE
This year’s Symposium will be focused on the challenges of executing a digital transformation strategy. It’s no longer enough to have formulated a digital strategy for the business. Why do so many organizations struggle to implement their well formulated strategies, especially transformational strategies like the transition to digital, that encompass new technologies, business models and management practices? The 2018 MIT CIO Symposium will take place on May 23. MORE
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“How can we formulate strategy in the face of uncertainty?,” Identify assumptions, drivers, and uncertainties. “Explicitly articulate the assumptions in your current strategy and what future you expect will result from its implementation… and focus on determining which assumptions it would be helpful to revisit.”. Implement those strategies. “This may sound obvious, but it is the place where most companies fall down. MORE
I was at Guelph - youth job strategy, a lot went to match students with first job, but there was some money set aside for innovation. MORE
In an exponential world, it stands to reason that our traditional, linear approaches to strategy will need to be re-thought from the ground up. One way to characterize the big shift in strategy is that we are moving from strategies shaped by terrain to strategies shaped by trajectory. Strategies of terrain. If you think about traditional approaches to strategy, they were profoundly shaped by the current landscape. Strategies of trajectory. MORE
Business strategy has evolved dramatically over the past four decades in response to the Big Shift that is re-shaping our global business landscape. Business strategy emerged in full force in the 1970’s and 1980’s with a strong focus on structural advantage. In response to these developments, we saw a first big shift in strategic thinking, one that could be broadly framed as a transition from strategies of position to strategies of movement. MORE
What is a social media strategy for outreach? Your Twitter strategy should be aligned with your Facebook strategy, so your tweets point to new information on Facebook, your Facebook account reflects your tweets, etc. Once you’ve got the identity, then you need to align your Facebook and Twitter strategies. social strategyReally, it’s about demonstrating your thinking, your values, and background. MORE
my mobile strategy workshop at DevLearn next week), and so it’s forced me to reflect on what strategy is. I’ve previously talked about the technology components of an elearning strategy, and how they tie together, but I’ve need to take another cut at it. Naturally, I’ve been diagramming as my way to get my mind around strategy as a set of conceptual components that are necessary to identify and get right, regardless of domain. strategy MORE
Your governance plan should include a schedule of when the group meets, what policies guide the role of governance, what metrics the governance group uses to look at the performance of the group implementing the plan (ie how the executors of the strategy are doing, not how the strategy is doing), and what partners are included. The strategy will need partners including fundamental ones providing necessary components (e.g. strategy MORE
Strategy Related Topics Clark Quinn
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
Which of course, begs the question of just what LXD strategy is. What is LXD strategy ? LXD strategy is about ensuring that resources and practices are aligned to create experiences that meet real org needs under pragmatic constraints. The post LXD Strategy appeared first on Learnlets. design strategyIn the continuing process of resolving what I want to do when I grow up (rest assured, not happening), I’ve been toying with a concept.
Clark Quinn
NOVEMBER 2, 2016
In a previous post , I talked about a couple of instances where I worked with folks to let them ‘pick my brain’ Those were about learning design in particular, but I’ve also worked with folks on strategy. In these strategy sessions, things work a little differently. So, in a typical strategy session, I prepare by looking at what they’ve done beforehand: any existing strategy documents. The post Strategy Sessions appeared first on Learnlets.
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Irving Wladawsky-Berger
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
“Nearly every organization - whether private, social, or governmental - is grappling with huge strategic challenges, often with a need to reimagine its very purpose, identity, strategy, business model, and structure,” writes Harvard emeritus professor Michael Beer in his recently published book Fit for Competition. “Most of these efforts to transform will fail. Do we have the capabilities to execute the strategy?
Clark Quinn
NOVEMBER 29, 2016
At the DevLearn conference, I ran a Morning Buzz on Learning Design Strategy. I started with a set of questions to address, so I’ll go through their comments in roughly that order (though we didn’t exactly follow this structure): What is learning design strategy? These are all elements that indeed contribute to strategy. What gaps are we seeing in learning design strategy? The post Thoughts on Learning Design Strategy appeared first on Learnlets.
Clark Quinn
APRIL 4, 2018
In an article , Jared Spool talks about the strategies he sees UX leaders using. He lists 3 examples, and talks about how your strategies need to change depending on where you are in relation to the organization. It made me think about what P&D strategies could and should be. Cynically, I called it the ‘bus’ strategy, e.g. in case someone was hit by a bus. This is an ‘internal’ strategy. This is more an external strategy.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
JULY 11, 2020
“How can we formulate strategy in the face of uncertainty?,” Identify assumptions, drivers, and uncertainties. “Explicitly articulate the assumptions in your current strategy and what future you expect will result from its implementation… and focus on determining which assumptions it would be helpful to revisit.”. Implement those strategies. “This may sound obvious, but it is the place where most companies fall down.
Clark Quinn
DECEMBER 7, 2016
It first takes an awareness of the problems (my old line: “L&D isn’t doing near what it could and should, and what it is doing it is doing badly, other than that things are fine” :), and then a strategy to move forward. The strategy depends on where the organization is to begin with, but there are systematic principles to guide progress. The post Learning Strategy Issues appeared first on Learnlets. meta-learning strategy
Dave Snowden
JULY 7, 2016
Today I want to continue my commentary on strategy started following yesterday’s workshop; feedback from the client is that we “exceeded expectations” which is satisfying. The post Stockholm syndrome in strategy appeared first on Cognitive Edge. StrategyOne of the key issues identified by Clayton Christian is that past competence creates the conditions for future failure.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
MAY 29, 2017
T he article reminds us that the trend is your friend is an old adage that applies to business strategy as well as to investing. The ability to anticipate where your industry is moving and to begin to reposition your company ahead of competitors is one of the most important elements of business strategy. Complex Systems Data Science and Big Data Economic Issues Innovation Management and Leadership Political Issues Society and Culture Technology and Strategy
Clark Quinn
SEPTEMBER 9, 2015
In an insightful article, Ken Majer (full disclosure, a boss of mine many years ago) has written about the need to have the right culture before executing strategy. social strategyAnd this strikes me as a valuable contribution to thinking about effective change in the transformation of L&D in the Revolution. I have argued that you can get some benefits from the Revolution without having an optimized culture, but you’re not going to tap into the full potential.
Clark Quinn
MAY 15, 2013
social strategy If you’re going to move towards the performance ecosystem, a technology-enabled workplace, where do you start? Partly it depends on where you’re at, as well as where you’re going, but it also likely depends on what type of org you are. While the longer term customization is very unique, I wondered if there were some meaningful categorizations.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
JANUARY 29, 2018
This year’s Symposium will be focused on the challenges of executing a digital transformation strategy. It’s no longer enough to have formulated a digital strategy for the business. Why do so many organizations struggle to implement their well formulated strategies, especially transformational strategies like the transition to digital, that encompass new technologies, business models and management practices? The 2018 MIT CIO Symposium will take place on May 23.
Xyleme
JUNE 8, 2020
“Organizations must be willing to challenge the status quo and reexamine their existing content strategy, processes and tools to stay ahead of the curve,” says Xyleme Chief Operating Officer Leslie Farinella. Leslie Farinella has more than 15 years of experience as a training strategy and design consultant, working with such organizations as GE, Citigroup, Johnson & Johnson, and Nielsen. Bringing Reuse & Flexibility to Enterprise. Content Management.
Dave Snowden
NOVEMBER 4, 2014
Today I delivered a half day workshop on Creating a KM Strategy and I have, as promised, loaded the slides to our web site for those interested. I'm back at KM World in Washington having keynoted at the event for well over a decade now. Once it was virtual and I was represented on stage by a pumpkin, but I've learnt my lesson from that and now I turn up!
Adaptive Path
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
The biggest change in my understanding of design after joining Capital One, by far, is how I understand the importance and nature of content strategy in my design work. I honestly can’t understand how I’ve gone as long as I have without really digging into content strategy; it just seems so obvious now. dotorg_ideas +g Design Strategy +g Experience Strategy +guides Uncategorized
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
DECEMBER 9, 2019
But, can AI help address broad, open-ended and ambiguous problems like developing and executing a competitive business strategy? Strategy typically involves a series of interrelated steps, including analyzing the overall business and market environment; setting one or more end goals; formulating a high level plan to achieve the end goals; and mobilizing resources to execute the plan. Strategies express what company leaders seek to emphasize and prioritize over a given time frame.
Clark Quinn
MARCH 6, 2019
So last week I was the strategy track coach for the Training 19 conference. That meant that I picked the sessions from a list of those who put their session proposals up for ‘strategy’, and could choose to open and/or close the track. And there were thoughts on strategy from the sessions and the attendees that are worth sharing. Finally, Alex Kinnebrew pushed for finding stakeholder voices as a complement to data in making strategy. design strategy
John Hagel
DECEMBER 31, 2015
FAST strategy So, the question is, how can we draw out and nurture this passion in business? There are many approaches, but I’m going to focus here on a distinctive approach to strategy, something that I call FAST strategy but that is also commonly known as a “zoom out, zoom in” approach to strategy. I’ve written about this approach to strategy here and here. In a nutshell, this approach to strategy focuses on two time horizons in parallel.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
JULY 15, 2019
It’s a win-win: Through what we call connected strategies, customers get a dramatically improved experience, and companies boost operational efficiencies and lower costs.”. The article proposes four connected strategies to help develop a continued relationship between a company and its customers: respond to desire, curated offering, coach behavior, and automatic execution. Let me summarize the key elements of each of these strategies.
John Hagel
JULY 9, 2013
We’re tempted to abandon long-term strategy and fall back on rapid adaptation as the only winning game – sense and respond quickly enough to events as they occur and everything will be OK. But adaptation as a strategy is fraught with risk. The option is to focus more than ever on three core strategy questions that can help provide us with focus and stability even as the turbulence increases around us – and help us to prioritize where we need to respond and where we don’t.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
JUNE 14, 2016
I would now like to discuss another excellent talk at the same conference, - How Platforms Change Strategy by Boston University professor Marshall Van Alstyne , also based on a recently published book, Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets are Transforming the Economy and How to Make Them Work for You , co-authored with Geoffrey Parker and Sanjeet Choudary. Is it likely all 7 incumbents had failed strategies, run by clueless management, lacking execution capabilities?,”
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
OCTOBER 18, 2016
I recently read an article by strategy consultant and writer Ken Favaro which nicely explained how to best think about strategy in today’s business environment. Many business leaders subscribe to the classic definition of strategy as a set of actions designed to achieve an overall aim,” wrote Favaro in The Trouble with Putting Goals Ahead of Strategy , published in strategy+business in 2015. “In other words, they believe strategy starts with a goal.
Jane Hart
JULY 19, 2014
4 August - 12 September 2014 (6 weeks) In this fast moving age, it is no longer just about studying existing bodies of knowledge and acquiring existing skills in formal courses but adopting a new set of learning strategies (a) to “learn the new” and constantly discover new ideas, new thinking, new resources in order to stay up to […].
Dave Snowden
JANUARY 23, 2013
All of this seems a tipping point so I am also working with some colleagues on a complete strategy process including SenseMaker® that I hope to launch for the second quarter. The former advanced course, now the Cynefin Strategy and Resilience course is a key part of that. For the last year I have been experimenting with what we (foolishly) called an advanced course. I've taught it now for the best part of a year, both on my own and variously with Michael and Tony.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
JANUARY 29, 2018
This year’s Symposium will be focused on the challenges of executing a digital transformation strategy. It’s no longer enough to have formulated a digital strategy for the business. Why do so many organizations struggle to implement their well formulated strategies, especially transformational strategies like the transition to digital, that encompass new technologies, business models and management practices? The 2018 MIT CIO Symposium will take place on May 23.
John Hagel
JANUARY 6, 2015
In my last blog post , I suggested that we’re going through a big shift in strategy from strategies of terrain to strategies of trajectory. In that blog post, I made the case that strategies of terrain are increasingly dangerous in times of accelerating change, but I left you hanging in terms of what strategies of trajectory might look like. Most strategies (strategies of terrain) tend to look from the present out to the future.
John Hagel
DECEMBER 15, 2014
In an exponential world, it stands to reason that our traditional, linear approaches to strategy will need to be re-thought from the ground up. One way to characterize the big shift in strategy is that we are moving from strategies shaped by terrain to strategies shaped by trajectory. Strategies of terrain. If you think about traditional approaches to strategy, they were profoundly shaped by the current landscape. Strategies of trajectory.
Harold Jarche
JUNE 26, 2012
Martin Nowak, a mathematical biologist, concludes The Evolution of Cooperation with the following winning strategy: What I find very interesting in these games of conditional reciprocity, direct and indirect reciprocity, we can make the point that winning strategies have the following three properties: they must be generous, hopeful and forgiving. If a strategy starts with defection, it’s not a winning strategy.
Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 25, 2011
my mobile strategy workshop at DevLearn next week), and so it’s forced me to reflect on what strategy is. I’ve previously talked about the technology components of an elearning strategy, and how they tie together, but I’ve need to take another cut at it. Naturally, I’ve been diagramming as my way to get my mind around strategy as a set of conceptual components that are necessary to identify and get right, regardless of domain. strategy
Clark Quinn
MARCH 21, 2017
In a recent discussion around HR strategy, the question arose about where to start. This was buttressed by a post pointed out to me by my ITA colleagues that was arguing a good design strategy was to find out what people needed. The post Top down or bottom up strategy? strategy technologyThat is, if you’ve bought into moving into the digital age, where do you begin.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
SEPTEMBER 17, 2010
When I look back upon my long career , one of the major factors shaping my views of business, strategy and innovation is the creative destruction that I saw buffeting the IT industry over most of that time. Is it that in spite of all their efforts in strategy formulation, their management was unable to anticipate them and were caught by surprise? In subsequent years, I was invited to come to their meetings and discuss strategies I was working on from time to time.
John Hagel
FEBRUARY 6, 2014
Business strategy has evolved dramatically over the past four decades in response to the Big Shift that is re-shaping our global business landscape. Business strategy emerged in full force in the 1970’s and 1980’s with a strong focus on structural advantage. In response to these developments, we saw a first big shift in strategic thinking, one that could be broadly framed as a transition from strategies of position to strategies of movement.
Dan Pontefract
AUGUST 13, 2018
You're reading fresh content from Dan Pontefract at Brave New Org: Discussing the importance of pausing and taking the time to dream, Bill McDermott, CEO of high-tech company SAP, once said in an interview, “Most people. Dan's Related Posts: Is Your Corporate Culture The Root Cause Of Bad Meetings? The Cognitive Era Is Cool But I’d Like To See The Human Era First. Sadly, The Importance Of Importance Is Now What’s Most Important.
Clark Quinn
FEBRUARY 8, 2011
What is a social media strategy for outreach? Your Twitter strategy should be aligned with your Facebook strategy, so your tweets point to new information on Facebook, your Facebook account reflects your tweets, etc. Once you’ve got the identity, then you need to align your Facebook and Twitter strategies. social strategyReally, it’s about demonstrating your thinking, your values, and background.
Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 14, 2008
There's a bit in there on blogging strategies, but the reality is that when I go back and look at my previous posts on what your personal strategy should be around blogging, I'm not finding that much. And one of the course members raised a really interesting question in the Forum around blogging strategies: Matthew, how has blogging changed the way you think? The reality is that as you blog, your blogging strategies are bound to shift. The third week of Web 2.0
Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 26, 2011
Your governance plan should include a schedule of when the group meets, what policies guide the role of governance, what metrics the governance group uses to look at the performance of the group implementing the plan (ie how the executors of the strategy are doing, not how the strategy is doing), and what partners are included. The strategy will need partners including fundamental ones providing necessary components (e.g. strategy
Clark Quinn
AUGUST 31, 2010
Which takes us to the last part, strategy. Tags: design strategy On our weekly twitter learning fest, #lrnchat , I regularly identify myself as a learning experience design strategist. I don’t always assume people know what that means, but for that audience I figure they can infer what it means. However, I think the idea is worth exploring, because increasingly I think that not only is that what I do, but it also is important.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
FEBRUARY 4, 2015
I was at Guelph - youth job strategy, a lot went to match students with first job, but there was some money set aside for innovation.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
JANUARY 19, 2012
When technology and market environments go through major changes, as is certainly the case today, previously successful business strategies will no longer work, no matter how much you try to fix them. These questions are the subject of MIT Professor Michael Cusumano’s recent book Staying Power: Six Enduring Principles for Managing Strategy and Innovation in an Uncertain World. The book was named one of the best business books on strategy in 2011 by strategy+business magazine.
Xyleme
JUNE 14, 2018
Watch now to learn about the key elements of content strategy and the shifts in mindset required to move from a course-driven approach to an object-based approach that enables any type of learning, in any context, on any device. The post How to Create a Content Strategy that Resonates with the Modern Learner appeared first on Xyleme. Content Strategy LCMS Resources Videos content strategy learning content management system (LCMS In this webinar, Xyleme Sr.
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