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An Agile Blueprint For Effective Strategy Execution At ING Group

Today’s banking customers are more demanding than ever. With the proliferation of smartphones and customer-friendly apps, many have grown to expect omni-channel experiences, personalized services and real-time interactions from their...

Articles

A Way to Assess and Prioritize Your Change Efforts

Change is the status quo. Companies the world over realize that success depends on their ability to respond to new opportunities and threats as they emerge, and to keep rethinking their strategies, structures, and tactics to gain ephemeral...

Reports

Blockchain and The Global CIO – How Distributed Ledger Technology Will Transform Enterprise Architecture and the CIO Role

This white paper explores the blockchain’s impact on enterprise IT architecture and the role of the Chief Information Officer, and how the convergence of emerging technologies will help catalyze distributed 'business models based on...

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Timing is money

The four dilemmas of timing when to implement a business strategy. Although we have become quite savvy about knowing whether an innovative idea is disruptive, we don't really have tools for knowing when such disruption should happen, and...

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Changing Change Management: A Blueprint That Takes Hold

Organizations can successfully manage change—and make sure the changes stick. BCG explains the impact of the Change Delta.

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DICE® – A tool for Executional Certainty

The ability to deliver successful change is increasingly becoming a real determinant of competitive advantage. Yet, delivering successful change is one of the toughest challenges that companies face, especially complex, high-stakes,...

Interviews

The right skills: Bridging the strategy design-delivery gap

Interview: Q&A with Benoît Claveranne, CEO International and New Markets, and Sébastien Van Dyk, Group Transformation Human Resources Director, both of AXA Group.

Articles

Getting Smart About Change Management

The business world, like the geopolitical world, has entered a new age of uncertainty. Turbulence is affecting more and more industries, more frequently and more severely. One-time market leaders and corporate giants fall rapidly from...

Case Studies

Food for Thought: How a Century-old Agro-giant Re-imagined its Business Strategy

Faced with mounting global competition, smaller profit margins and a more tech-savvy consumer Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) needed to find other ways of growing beyond geographic expansion. But maneuvering a century-old global commodities...

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How Saudi Telecom Is Reinventing Itself Through Smart Strategy Delivery

Saudi Arabia’s telecommunications industry is in the midst of a seismic shift. Saudi Telecom (STC) has responded to this changing climate with bold moves, including a new business strategy that focuses on growth in several key areas and...

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Strategic Initiative Management: The PMO Imperative

For many businesses today, generally only two things are certain: greater uncertainty and an accelerated pace of change. Globalization increases the scope of competition. Digitization hastens the pace of business. Customers are more...

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Ten questions to help you turn strategy into reality

The gap between strategy and implementation is often fatal. The good news is that it can be closed.

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The Brightline Initiative is closing the gap between strategy design and delivery

The multitude of problems that arise throughout strategy implementation can help to be remedied by the Brightline Initiative’s universally applicable 10 Guiding Principles.

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The four types of strategy work you need for the digital revolution

The most successful companies learn how to transition seamlessly between different strategy implementation approaches

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The Hard Side of Change Management

Studies show that in most organizations, two out of three transformation initiatives fail. Managing change is tough, but part of the problem is that there is little agreement on what factors most influence transformation initiatives. Ask...

Interviews

The unpredictable future of work – an interview with Claudio Garcia, Lee Hecht Harrison

Interview: The Executive Excellence magazine interviewed Claudio Garcia, Executive Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development at Lee Hecht Harrison, about the global reach of technology within Human Resources and about one of the...

Videos

Brightline at Davos with The Business Debate (@Reuters)

Watch the video. In this interview from Davos with The Business Debate, Ricardo Vargas discusses the challenges of turning ideas into reality.

Videos

[Strategy@Work] Vishal Lall on Strategy + Execution. Practical lessons from the trenches.

What can go wrong during implementation? 75% of large-scale transformations fail to meet their initial objectives. How should we design our strategy in a changing landscape?

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[Strategy@Work] Vishal Lall, Chief Strategy Office, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Learn the three things that will be very helpful in embarking a new transformation in your organization.

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[Strategy@Work] The Human Side of Transformation

Why people are frequently the least leveraged asset although they are critical to strategic transformation? What organizations can do to leverage their most critical and important asset, their people?

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[Strategy@Work] Martin Reeves on Strategies of Change (Your Execution Needs a Strategy)

What can go wrong during implementation? 75% of large-scale transformations fail to meet their initial objectives. How should we design our strategy in a changing landscape?

HUMANS 2.0

Brightline returns to Davos taking you for a deep dive into how leaders could harness the power of people and leverage technology to design and deliver a future-proof strategy During the World Economic Forum at Davos on 22 January 2019,...

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Blockchain and The Project Management Office

A Distributed Platform for Strategy Delivery and Organizational Transformation

Research shows that while most executives understand the potential of blockchain to inform strategy and minimize decision-making biases of the boardroom and C-suite, not many have made significant progress.

Case Studies

Organizational Transformation: How Steelcase Developed a Strategy for Growth in a Changing Workplace

Steelcase made its mark as an internationally recognized name in office furnishings with the introduction of Victor—a fireproof steel waste basket designed to reduce fires, which are often caused by ashes in wicker wastebaskets. More than...