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Business & People Interactions Architect. Future driven and flexible thinker, acting today for Tomorrow. Collaboration culture, methods & tools enthousiast. — blog fredericw.com. "I am always doing things I can’t do, that’s how I get to do them” — Pablo Picasso

[stoweboyd]

Our faith in the value of leadership is durable—it survives, again and again, our disappointment with actual leaders.

Joshua Rothman, Shut Up and Sit Down (via stoweboyd)

[fredericw]

Design thinking began as a way to improve the process of designing tangible products. But that’s not where it will end. The Intercorp story and others like it show that design thinking principles have the potential to be even more powerful when applied to managing the intangible challenges involved in getting people to engage with and adopt innovative new ideas and experiences.

https://hbr.org/2015/09/design-for-action

[fredericw]

One common misconception about self-management is that everyone is equal and decisions are made by consensus, which requires endless meetings. The truth is very different. Self-management requires a whole set of interlocking structures and practices, so that decision rights and power flow to any individual who has the expertise, interest, or willingness to step in to oversee a situation. Fluid, natural hierarchies replace the fixed power hierarchies of the pyramid.

http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00344?gko=10921

[fredericw]

There are many studies that have been done that prove that memory is dependent on sleep. Giving employees a chance to rest and digest the information as it comes in is important for them to learn it. Ensuring that employees can quickly access the information they need, even after the training is over, is probably the most important thing to get right.

http://t.co/aZGHRlvcEi

[fredericw]

Uber does not owns cars, AirBnb no hotels. Their assets are their algorithms, customers, data, platform and experience.

http://www.duperrin.com/english/2015/06/02/what-does-being-ubered-mean/

[fredericw]

Transformation, unlike change management, doesn’t focus on a few discrete, well-defined shifts, but rather on a portfolio of initiatives, which are interdependent or intersecting. More importantly, the overall goal of transformation is not just to execute a defined change — but to reinvent the organization and discover a new or revised business model based on a vision for the future. It’s much more unpredictable, iterative, and experimental. It entails much higher risk. And even if successful change management leads to the execution of certain initiatives within the transformation portfolio, the overall transformation could still fail.

[fredericw]

The professional triber is "the Hollywood model dispersed across the general workplace," says Tankersley. Just as Hollywood studios don’t themselves hire the individual cinematographer, editor, scriptwriters, and actors to make a movie, neither will companies of the future want to hire individual components of a team to get a job done.

[fredericw]

In 2005, 69% of Executive MBA (EMBA) students were sponsored by their employer; this year 39% were. Firms looking to put their managers through development programmes are increasingly creating their own, rather than relying on business schools.

(via Keeping it on the company campus | The Economist)

[fredericw]

The point is this: If the opposite of your core strategy choices looks stupid, then every competitor is going to have more or less the exact same strategy as you.

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“Technology should work for people, not the other way around.”

Brad Becker Chief Design Officer, IBM Watson

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[fredericw]

That's the irony about digital transformation, it doesn’t work when in of itself technology is the solution. Technology has to be an enabler and that enabler needs to be aligned with a bigger mission.

[fredericw]

When people can build an identity with your product over time, they form a natural loyalty to it.

[fredericw]

Simplifying frontline processes is another key priority, for it not only gives employees time to perform more effectively at moments of truth but also reinforces the vital sense of empowerment.

[fredericw]

The Internet of Things is not just machines talking to machines. Fundamentally, the success of the IoT will depend less on the connection of technologies and more on the humanization of the technologies that are connected — intuitive technologies whose user-centric design intersects with artificial intelligence to produce a solution that measurably impacts and improves something (e.g., productivity or quality of life).

[bolossdesbelleslettres]

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[fredericw]

Strategy Execution Feature Enterprises fail at execution because they neglect the most powerful drivers of effectiveness: decision rights and information flow.