The majority of mergers fail to meet their intended goals. For those that are successful, the top reasons, per the KPMG Board Leadership Center, are, in order of importance: Well executed integration plan A correct valuation Effective due diligence A well executed integration plan depends on effective due diligence. Frequently, not enough time is spent […]
Corporate innovators are building an innovation community to actively engage, support and educate each other. We share best practices and ideate around key challenges in a vendor free and very collaborative environment. Since its inception in 2016, activities include: Innovation organization review: members review their innovation organization’s evolution, org structure, positions, responsibilities, process, tools, methodologies, […]
Lexy Prodromos, a fellow active learner (see Out Work and Out Learn Everyone!), truly bootstrapped her way into a prominent role in the blockchain ecosystem. Now a Research and Marketing Strategist at Bloq, Inc., and the Director of Operations for the Chicago Blockchain Center, her journey shows how to build your value and seize an opportunity. We worked together […]
Data is the foundation of digital transformation, and the skilled talent is hard to find. A McKinsey report predicted that by 2018, the US will be short by 140,000-190,000 people with “deep analytical skills” and 1.5 million managers with expertise in understanding and using their work. This is true across industries, including government. During my recent tenure […]
Innovation happens when different people interact in new ways. In our interconnected world, ideas, news, commerce, and even economic turbulence jump borders and drive change. The barriers between us are coming down, and this is at the heart of the incredible innovation we are seeing today. Organizations, however, are not nearly as frictionless. In merger […]
At Ohio’s Southern State Community College, the “big man on campus” isn’t a star athlete or a teenage genius—in fact, it isn’t even a human; it’s a robot. Specifically, it’s a Beam Telepresence robot—what amounts to a motorized, remotely controlled computer monitor that allows students, instructors or other faculty members to virtually attend or teach […]
How can IT better communicate it’s value to the rest of the organization? While there will always be issues to address, IT won’t be considered partners and peers with the rest of the business if dialog is stuck on tactical issues or technical difficulties. Instead, frame the discussion in terms of strategic business value. For an […]
On Black Friday, the world’s largest purveyor of miscellaneous goods is watching the clocks, hustling behind the scenes so that items flying off the shelves in earlier time zones are put front and center in later time zones. Walmart hasn’t always been able to tell the future, just since 2012. There was a time, before […]
