The Evolution of Enterprise Social Collaboration

Enterprise social collaboration tools can be a powerful means to support employees in their daily business, also helping them foster cross-company collaboration.

Align Metric Triggered Actions/Thresholds to Plans with Assigned Personnel and Due Dates

Performance metrics that drive no action provide little or no value to an organization. To be truly effective, performance measures must individually or collectively prompt action whereby an opportunity is seized upon or a risk avoided. Thus, high-quality organizational performance measures are directly linked to actions – but what actions, performed by whom, within what timeframe?

Where Have All the Leaders Gone?, part 5 of 6

Leadership Role #4: Building Followership Leaders require followers who are committed to achieving the mission – ideally people who believe in both the vision and the leader and who want to be there. To create such a devoted followership, leaders must remember that they are also followers – not only in the sense of supporting […]

The Advisor’s Corner – How Do I Deal with a Calendar Full of Meetings?

How do I deal with a calendar full of meetings that are wasting my time?

Where Have All the Leaders Gone?, part 4 of 6

Leadership Role #3: Making Alliances In today’s fractured, highly competitive, information-driven business world, collaboration is the name of the game. Therefore, an important competency leaders must possess is the ability to make smart, strategic alliances. Alliances open up new possibilities, creating new conditions and resources that allow us to play games we could not play […]

Where Have All the Leaders Gone?, part 3 of 6

Leadership Role #2: Declaring a Mission By articulating a vision, a leader opens up certain possible paths to the future while closing others. Using our computer industry example, if software is what will be profitable, then it makes little sense to shift resources into hardware production. Apple also made this mistake, and until the advent […]

Examining the State of the U.S. STEM Workforce: Today and Tomorrow

One of the major STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) debates currently underway today in the United States revolves around whether or not there is, in fact, a STEM workforce shortage in the country. To further examine the myth versus reality discussion, this year’s Bayer Facts of Science Education survey, the 16th in the series, […]

The Advisor’s Corner – Does working smarter, not harder apply to leadership positions?

Question: Can “working smarter, not harder” really be applied to leadership positions? StrategyDriven Response: (by Roxi Hewertson, StrategyDriven Principal Contributor) Of course! Leaders already work hard if they are successful with their teams and organizations. The heart of the question is not: “how hard to squeeze the orange,” but rather, “how, with less effort and […]

Documented and Retained Causal and Action Intelligence

Performance measures reflect the organization’s successes and shortfalls over extended periods of time. Well-maintained metrics include a periodic performance analysis summary capturing underlying drivers and associated follow-on actions. These summaries, however, are typically overwritten with the next analysis rather than being preserved; robbing leaders of critical lessons learned information that could support future performance improvements and more rapid decision-making.