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Those who want to think like a scenario planner need to adopt a new mindset. Â Yes,scenario planning is a process. Those who treat scenario planning only as a process, however, achieve suboptimal results. Scenario planning, the analysis of the uncertainties, and the authoring of the narratives takes place in the imagination of the team creating…
The latest entry in the Serious Insights series “The Tens.” Â This issue focuses on Getting Work From Home Right. Download the PDF Understand the work that needs to be done. With digitization and automation, many organizations have lost track of the work they do at the detail level. Many processes and procedures are assumed to…
Ten Reasons a Conference Call Is Better Than a Video Conference As people ramp up the number of video conference calls and sometimes fill their days with them, the realities of what is being called Zoom Fatigue is catching on. As much as face-2-face meetings provide some additional sensory information about participants, there are a lot…
Ten Covid-19 Remote Work Questions to make sure you and your employer are on the same virtual page Ten Covid-19 Remote Work Questions: As more people work remotely, they will quickly realize that their organization may not be as prepared as they think to have everyone working from home. Every person working from home should take…
Ten Tips for Effective Microsoft Teams Deployment Microsoft Teams wraps SharePoint in a collaborative UI. In its most simple form, Teams offers file management, conversations, and communications, along with a framework for integrating other features related to the work being done in the Team. Teams represent the governing structure. Channels within a Team are where…
Top Ten Things Job Hunters Should Do on Social Media I just spent the last two weekends teaching Social Media for Job Hunters at Bellevue College. It is always a great learning experience for me, and I hope, a valuable experience for the students as well. Here are some of the major takeaways. Please feel…
Ten Innovations That Should Drive Collaboration Technology Download Ten Innovations That Should Drive Collaboration Technology here:Â This report outlines ten areas of technology innovation led by a variety of vendors. None of the areas mentioned here have become fully realized, nor do any of them currently dominate the requirements of organizations seeking to acquire or…
Ten Precepts for Good Higher Education Strategy Download the PDF of this post here. Download the expanded version, Planning at the Speed of Change: Creating Good Strategy in Higher Education, here. Higher education faces disruption from innovations in technology and business models. These disruptions threaten the relevancy of existing institutions and create uncertainty because the emergent models…
Watch the video: Download the PDF here: What To Do With Scenarios When Scenario Planning Is Done Scenario planning is one tool that helps individuals and organizations view the world more strategically. Building scenarios is a means to an end, not an end of its own. By applying these ten ideas organizations will ensure their…
Download the PDF here: Hoteliers will need to pay attention to a number of factors as the global market shifts East, grows older (and younger) and expects more for their travel investment. Hoteliers that leverage these factors as opportunities will find themselves at the top of their markets over the next several years, while those…
I spent most of my first day at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) listening to press conferences, mostly from big companies. Some, like Dish, made a big splash with an LED drum parade followed by multiple marching kangaroos. The Dish CEO, Joseph P. Clayton, marched on stage with a drum and was pretty entertaining. And…
The Tens—Strategic Planning Mistakes & How to Avoid Them Download The Tens—Strategic Planning Mistakes & How to Avoid Them PDF here. Gathering the Wrong Data Too often organizaÂtions want to look deeply at their history in order to project forward. This is almost always a waste of time. The world changes too often to spend…
Unlike sales-oriented CRM, Customer Relationship Management within IT focuses on relationships that help empower the business with technology, and if necessary, keep IT out of the way until the time is right Be a member of the customer’s team IT Customer Relationship Managers need to balance between what IT management thinks it needs to deliver,…
IT often drives change within organizations. This list of tens focuses on how IT can successfully implement new customer-facing systems and infrastructure. Executive engagement. Buy-in doesn’t cut it. If executives and organizational leaders don’t actively engage, drive, and lead the new applications or infrastructure, change won’t happen. Executives need to understand that adoption arrives by…
The Case for Microsoft Acquisition The primary case for the acquisition of the Barnes and Noble Nook by Microsoft would be for Microsoft to get out of its own shorts. Windows 8 and Office 2013/395 present an ever more cloistered ecosystem that runs the risk of cutting off all external stimuli. The already overly Redmond-centric…
Make a choice about where you work, and when you work. Start rethinking the way you use your work day. If you can’t figure out how to take a week of vacation, then take an hour or so, and do one of the the following: Ten Ways to Vacation At Work Go to a movie…
download a PDF here. Align with the brand Social media needs to reflect the brand promise and the brand values. Social media should not be a separate effort that reinvents the company for social media engagement. Social media is another channel for communications and relationship building, consider ways it enhances and augments other forms for…
download a PDF here. Knowledge Management Success Factors These then Knowledge Management Success Factors will help any organization get started on the right foot. Document the value proposition so that it aligns with organizational goals and objectives. If the knowledge management goals do not clearly reflect organizational direction, then they will appear to be in…
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Lady Gaga Innovation: Ten Lessons Experiment Innovation requires the ability to experiment, and along with that, the ability to let go of things that don’t work. Failure should be a lesson, not a marathon to rehabilitate the mistake. Don’t experiment in a linear, overly cautious way. Experiment with a bit of abandon and watch carefully…
Top Ten Reasons to Use Scenario Planning The future is uncertain.You put your organization at risk when you think you are certain about something you can’t possibly be certain about, so you need a robust process to challenge assumptions.One of the best ways to drive innovation is to put people into places and situations that…
