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Part 1: How Simulation Can Accelerate Your Digital Transformation.
Around the mahogany tables of corporate boardrooms and the plywood workbenches of garage-based startups, one topic has threatened to monopolize business discussions for years: digital transformation.
Part 2: The New Elements of Digital Transformation
Since 2014, when our article “The Nine Elements of Digital Transformation” appeared in these pages, executive awareness of the powerful and ever-evolving ways in which digital technology can create competitive advantage has become pervasive. But acting on that awareness remains a challenging prospect.
Part 3: When Does It Make Sense to Have Mixed-Mode Meetings?
While organizations are preparing to return large numbers of workers to offices this fall, many senior leaders have questions about how to lead a reassembled workforce when not everyone is together. In a recent article, we put forward a principle to guide the reimagination of hybrid work post-pandemic: Take a virtual-first approach and bring people together physically only when it adds value to do so.

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Part 1: Five Creative Ways To Lead A Digital Transformation.
Expert commentary on global affairs for leaders everywhere
Various experiences with digital transformation (DX) projects, including the failures and success stories in organizations, have taught us one thing: digital transformation is about people and not about technology. This argument is now widely accepted as organizations have moved away from focusing on only the technology and off-the-shelf technological solutions to their needs.
Part 2: For digital transformation, ‘mindset matters most’.
Digital transformation has understandably accelerated massively since the Covid-19 pandemic began. Organisations in virtually every industry had to digitise some part of their business or operations in order to carry on throughout the restrictions.
Part 3: Companies Must Find the Courage to Back Up Statements on Climate Action.
The world’s largest companies are rapidly raising the bar on their commitments to tackle climate change. Dozens recently put net-zero goals in place to eliminate carbon from their operations and often their entire value chains as well. Hundreds have committed to using only renewable energy. More than 1,600 say they will cut greenhouse gas emissions at the pace scientists tell us is needed to avoid the worst climate outcomes (that is, they’re pledging a science-based target). And banks, long the laggards on climate action, are funneling trillions of dollars toward clean technologies while moving their investment portfolios away from fossil fuels.

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Part 1: Keeping up With Digital Transformation.
Whether or not you have seen The Office (US) (and know that Gabe is annoyed that Andy’s answers are correct because he dislikes him), you probably know that critical thinking questions are used to evaluate a candidate’s thinking process. In fact, the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) The Future of Jobs Report 2020 states that critical thinking is among the top skills employers see as rising in prominence in the lead-up to 2025, along with analysis, problem-solving, and self-management skills.
Part 2: The 5 Fronts of Digital Transformation in the Middle Market.
The past 18 months have brought unprecedented challenges to businesses of all sizes, and the U. S. middle market was not immune.
Part 3: Digital Mindfulness: Being Digital Instead Of Doing Digital.
This saying, often misattributed to Mahatma Gandhi but actually penned by Arleen Lorrance in her book, The Love Project, encapsulates the difference between doing digital stuff and being a digital business.


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Part 1: 5 Reasons Your Employees Don’t Understand Your Company’s Vision.
Leadership teams often spend hours wordsmithing their business’ vision, mission, and strategy, only to hear employees complain, “We don’t have a north star. ” Executives are often surprised by this feedback of a lack of an aspirational vision and immediately spend more time trying to craft the perfect statement. This mistaken approach makes scant progress in clarifying their people’s perception of a clear path forward.
Part 2: Digital Mindfulness: Being Digital Instead Of Doing Digital.
This saying, often misattributed to Mahatma Gandhi but actually penned by Arleen Lorrance in her book, The Love Project, encapsulates the difference between doing digital stuff and being a digital business.
Part 3: Five Digital Transformation Hurdles In Financial Services And How To Avoid Them.
Seventy-three percent of digital transformations fail to produce sustained ROI. At least, that’s what a 2018 study found. It’s an astounding figure considering that at the same time, companies are investing more in upgrading their digital offerings. According to a survey of over 2,500 organizations, 97% of company heads said the pandemic accelerated their digital transformation. By 2025, it is estimated that digital transformation will be worth over $1 trillion, up from $470 billion in 2020.

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Part 1: The Future of Digital Work Depends On More Than Tech Skills.
Software skills may be essential for much of the work of the 21st century, but candidates also need softer skills to be reliable employees.
Part 2: Informal Leadership Comes at a Cost.
As an informal leader on my team, I’m often responsible not just for meeting my own goals, but also for managing and making decisions on team tasks. Even though these tasks are not mine to complete, I have to put in extra work to help my peers deal with them — and that can be really exhausting.
Part 3: Figuring Out Social Capital Is Critical for the Future of Hybrid Work.
The networks of employee relationships have been depleted during the pandemic, but companies can address this by focusing on three key areas in their return-to-work plans.

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Workforce Ecosystems. A New Strategic Approach to the Future of Work.
The latest MIT SMR-Deloitte survey on the future of the workforce finds that most managers consider employees and external workers — including contractors, service providers, app developers, and gig workers — to be part of their workforce. This calls for an integrated approach to workforce management and has led some executives to the idea of a workforce ecosystem. This report discusses the benefits and challenges associated with creating and managing a workforce ecosystem.

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