Category: Business Transformation

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Adam Grant, the youngest tenured professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and New York Times bestselling author, suggests that work should be measured in terms of the value of output rather than the volume of output. Productivity is usually about the volume of output, which means that more is better. Grant […]


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The 3rd Industrial Revolution gave us the rise of big data, digital automation, and faster moving markets. At the dawn of this 4th Industrial Revolution (4) what lessons can we learn from the past, so we lead our organizations to create a more valuable future? Data Requires People to Look at the Past Data came and […]


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Big data, machine learning, connected vehicles, Industry 4.0, robotic process automation, blockchain …. And many other ways to describe digital transformation as an emerging opportunity to transform every industry at a scale comparable to the mechanization of agriculture. Several companies including Amazon, Alibaba, Burberry, Samsung, Disney are leading the transformation wave. Results include creation of […]


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Probably the greatest challenge that scholars face in organizational behavior is getting access to information about what people do when they’re at work. Without it, they have nothing to analyze, evaluate, talk about, or publish. And if they can’t publish, then they’ll perish, because as far as universities are concerned they’ll have little, if anything, […]


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Twenty years ago, Pearn Kandola – an Oxford-based business psychology firm – conducted a study in which they looked at the claims that companies made about the kind of people that they wanted to recruit. One thing they discovered was that managers tended to weed out the people who exhibited the very characteristics they said […]


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Great project managers aren’t born, but it does take a certain sort as the saying goes. There will always be a balance between a project manager’s instinct and experience and the adherence to a flexible yet predefined project management methodology. All good project managers will possess a combination of acquired experience, a recognized qualification in […]


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The digital transformation has already begun, and any currently operating business that hasn’t incorporated this imminent, transformative change into their long-term survival strategy may not be operating for much longer. Just as the global digital community was getting used to a “mobile-first” world, the exponential development of technology is quickly moving the user experience into […]



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