Do we really know how our organizations adopt new methods, new technologies and new thinking?
I have been working on the dynamics of organizational adoption for several years and I have devised an insightful perspective of the challenge. Some of these insights will be presented at an event in London. (details)
Every organization is a complex adaptive [...]
The apparently slow demise of print publications and the downward trend of online advertising revenue is making more publishers and content providers think seriously about introducing so-called ‘paywalls’ – where original content and information is available only to paying readers.
I have been watching this for some time now and wonder if this really is the [...]
Chief Executives should ask their CIOs a very important question: do you honestly know where our data is tonight?
Right now there are masses of very valuable and highly sensitive corporate data being carried around on lightweight USB memory sticks, much of it stored without any official sanction or knowledge.
The USB sticks may be small but it [...]
Most organizations of size conduct regular customer and employee satisfaction surveys. But they don’t ask the most fundamental question of all: do you trust our company?
This is a surprising omission because mutual trust throughout the value chain(s) should be the foundation of every enterprise.
So why don’t we routinely ask our colleagues and partners if we [...]
Why should so many business risks be kept off the record, because they are taboo subjects? We need to make sure that we are not acting as unofficial keepers of the taboo zoo.
Every organization has corporate taboos, difficult conversations that are avoided – either until a crisis finally flushes the subject out into the open, or [...]
An effective recruitment process for interim managers is very different - or should be.
And there is a ‘killer’ job interview question that can quickly sort the interim wheat from the chaff.
Economic downturns always promote the importance of interim management, as more organizations and individuals look to the interim market for quick fixes.
Information has played a vital role in the raging furore over MPs expenses.
The whole thing began a few years ago, with newspaper attempts to obtain details of expenses by using the Freedom of Information Act; an initiative that did not go down well with many of our elected representatives.
They [MPs] subsequently fought tooth and nail [...]
Twitter made an arbitrary technical change yesterday and at a stroke inadvertently broke their business value proposition.
I won’t bore you with the technical details but the change destroyed the future of the phenomenal network effect that has propelled millions of people to join Twitter.
The absolutely fundamental nature of Twitter has been the accelerated network effect [...]
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