Business agility is a concept that has been around for a while. Agility is good. But it has a heat of the moment reactive feel to it. Agile fighters will always outperform sclerotic opponents. Though it is not usually a good idea to wait until the opposition is throwing punches at your head before responding. […]
Let’s first take stock. Here are three signs, your leadership style is no longer fit for purpose: You enjoy the sensation of your edicts cascading down the steep hierarchy of the org chart. You feel you are uniquely placed to make the big decisions, and so are fully signed up to the ‘command and control’, […]
As robotics becomes more mainstream, reference to Asimov’s three laws of robotics increases. It’s quite impressive that a fiction writer should define a set of laws that will ultimately underpin business and society. But what if we had a simple set of rules that leaders could give to their staff such that, over time, there […]
There is a chain that runs from technology and people suppliers through the Procurement and HR functions respectively. It continues into the IT department and via the users to your organisation’s market. Thus there are a number of actors involved in this IT value chain. They include: External recruiters. Business development staff of the IT […]
CxOs will continue to ask the CIO to fix their laptops if they perceive the CIO as the person in charge of the people that fix laptops. So the first step for the CIO is to appoint an IT manager to do the job of IT management. And then to behave as if they were […]
Step 1 – (IT MANAGEMENT) Get the IT service aligned with the expectations of the users. Step 2 – (PEOPLE MANAGEMENT) Identify / employ some innovative staff. Step 3 – (LEADERSHIP) Create a culture of innovation. Reward your staff for any innovative activity that leads to user-delighting outcomes. Step 4 – (BRAND) Promote these successes […]
The Digital Strategist blog focuses on helping tech firms and tech-driven organisations be more successful through a better understanding of what lies ahead. There is a big focus on the future or work and leadership (CIO and CxO). Ade McCormack
It's approaching crunch time for many CEOs. Reckless cost cutting will soon manifest itself in some serious reputational damage. The questions are ' Who do you trust?' and 'Who should you trust?'. CEOs are likely to trust other CEOs (the herd). And are likely to not trust the IT industry (false promises) and the CIO […]
Definitions of autism include: An abnormal absorption with the self; marked by communication disorders and short attention span and an inability to treat others as people (Princeton). A diagnosis of abnormal self-absorption, observable in early childhood, characterised by lack of response to other humans and by limited ability or disinclination to communicate (Wiktionary). This is […]