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Welcome to the fifth issue of CXO Magazine.
Continuous innovation used to be enough to drive growth. However, today’s organisations also must innovate at speed and scale. Indeed, a frequent question we hear from CEOs around the world is: “How can my organisation adapt and move faster?”
Artificial intelligence Breakthrough technologies Issue welcome Operational agility
The Evolution of Buying Habits in Enterprise IT
The way enterprises are buying IT is changing, and so are the characteristics of the buyers. Several big trends are driving this transformation, from the need for agility to different expectations of time to value and the liberating possibilities of the cloud. Now, IT departments can stitch everything together to meet their exact needs much faster than ever before.
Breakthrough technologies Operational agility Procurement Working practices
Intelligent Organisations: A Systemic Approach
Organisations can be designed to behave intelligently and sensitively, and indeed they must if they are to master the complexity of our current environment. Drawing on Systems Theory and Cybernetics, we can understand the prerequisites of organisational intelligence, and create the conditions for our organisations to flourish.
Operational agility Organisational design Strategy
White Paper : History Made Faster: Why Automation Often Fails, But Doesn’t Have To
Business norms have been swept away by the Covid-19 pandemic; because of this disruption, change had to go deeper and faster than conventionally thought possible. Instead of “returning to normal”, we must now refocus technologies, working practices and business models to create an environment that will be starkly different to the old ways of working.
Automation Operational agility Strategy Whitepaper
Cybersecurity: The Fabric of Any Intelligent Organisation
Does today’s need for cyber vigilance conflict with the move towards organisational intelligence and its need to share data? We believe the opposite is true – robust cybersecurity can be a powerful enabler of progress.
Data privacy Operational agility Risk management Security
The Role of Operations: Sustainability, Optimisation and Cost Reduction Working Together
R&D into new forms of power generation, such as solar and wave power, might always attract the most attention, but the teams and individuals running the operational side of businesses also have the opportunity to make a difference. Significant change can come from internal optimisation.
ESG Operational agility Operational excellence Strategy
Working Without Boundaries and the Enterprise of Tomorrow
Agile organisations are defined by how closely they’ve looked at costs, technology and digital innovation and leveraged these to survive in times of uncertainty. Learning from this approach, businesses can reap the benefits of cultural flexibility, process agility, and operational adaptability – allowing employees to work without boundaries while still achieving benchmarks of productivity.
Hybrid working Operational agility Talent management Working practices
White Paper: How to make Business Agility a reality
Organisations that are focused, resilient, responsive, adaptable, versatile and able to sustainably innovate are successful. Taken together, these traits are known as ‘Business Agility’. The benefits are significant, including better organisational health – the best indicator of long-term performance. Despite this, many organisations struggle, with common challenges holding them back. At NTT DATA, we know it doesn’t have to be this way. This paper assesses the underlying challenges and describes our Business Agility framework to help clients thrive in the years to come.
Operational agility Strategy Whitepaper Working practices
White Paper: Shaping the change
There are a number of reasons for the pressure to change that many companies are feeling: economic globalisation, unforeseen crises, the rising complexity of business processes, and digitalisation at all levels to name a few. Companies are responding with new structures and processes. In doing so, management has to rely heavily on HR, because every positive change is built on the willingness and skillsets of employees. HR shapes extensive aspects of change and HR managers, therefore, are increasingly becoming change managers – and have to stand the test of this new role.
Operational agility Shaping culture Talent management Whitepaper
The Secret of Enterprise Agility: Where Science Meets Organisational Change
Most mindsets or frameworks developed to support an environment where employees can confidently adapt to market opportunities, such as Agile, Lean, and Scrum are not enough. A new framework of reference is required, one that draws on neuroscience, organisational psychology and new types of leadership.
Operational agility Organisational design Strategy Team dynamic
The Challenge of Continuous Change
Adapt or perish. The rate of change in the post-Covid world is relentless. With the competitor landscape and customer demands changing at speed, the new enterprise must be hyper-adaptive, able to flex and adopt the agile mindset and principles to ultimately achieve competitive advantage and build better relationships with their customers, staff and communities.
Operational agility Shaping culture Strategy Working practices
Reimagining Work
The time for command-and-control is gone. To cope with the level and pace of change, the rules of business planning and management must be rewritten – with flexibility, robustness and self-organisation at the root. Rebelling against the norm is not only advantageous; it's critical.
Operational agility Shaping culture Strategy
Learning to Transform: How Collaboration and Care Help Us Deal With Change
Learning is a critical part of an organisation’s ability to transform. The steep learning curve on cloud native migrations offers a useful lens through which to understand how we can improve both training and ways of working, in order to create an agile and future-fit organisation.
Breakthrough technologies Operational agility Talent management Team dynamic
Welcome to the third issue of CXO Magazine
Welcome to the third issue of CXO Magazine. Our theme for this issue is ‘Agility in the Age of Disruption’
Issue welcome Operational agility Post-Covid workplace Strategy Welcome Letters
Change Is Always An Opportunity
Change is the only constant, in life and in business. But change isn’t something to be overcome – instead, we should regard it as the catalyst for innovation, agility and organisational resilience. An agile change management approach is the springboard from which businesses can catapult towards optimised processes, better ways of working and a flexible, sustainable enterprise.
Operational agility Organisational design Shaping culture Strategy
Cultivating Agile and Adaptive Teams the Military Way
With a ‘mission command’ philosophy, organisations can adapt to the VUCA environment businesses face today. By focusing on the team’s coherence as a whole, and its ability to share information and make decisions effectively, organisations can thrive in uncertainty.
Operational agility Shaping culture Strategy Team dynamic
Business Re-Set: Why Organisational Fluidity is the Future of Your Enterprise
The traditional rigid business structure is no longer fit for purpose. As enterprises look towards a post-Covid future, adopting a more fluid approach to their structural architecture will enable them to become agile and flexible companies, fit to meet today's and tomorrow's challenges.
Operational agility Organisational design Shaping culture Strategy
Bringing Everyone Along: A Model for Maximising Adoption in Change Projects
Change management is an underrated tool in the fight against continual disruption. With a few basic tenets, companies can get a handle on quickly assembling resources – and, crucially, maximising buy-in from the workforce – in response to changing external and internal environments.
EX Operational agility Team dynamic Working practices
Accelerating Data Insights to Steer Smoothly Through Crisis
Leaders will do well to remember that crises always present opportunities for improvement and advancement. By embracing agility and using data and analytics to their best advantage, leaders will be in a stronger position to navigate through the near-term challenges that the pandemic has raised.
Data strategy & BI Operational agility Working practices
Designing Organisation Agility
To go beyond the surface-level of this century’s buzziest word and design a truly agile organisation, enterprises need to understand the intricacies of agility. And beyond that, they need to examine whether an agile approach is likely to benefit their organisation at all.
Operational agility Organisational design Shaping culture Strategy
Leading the Agility Shift: Slowing Down to Go Fast
Organisations looking to urgently improve agility across the enterprise will find that their leaders across all levels need support in making a mindset shift. To make this shift is neither instant nor effortless, organisations must make, model and coach for it to ensure the success of agile initiatives.
Operational agility Post-Covid workplace Shaping culture Strategy
White Paper: Agility in the Time of Covid
How is the Covid-19 pandemic different from other crises, and how can organisations build resilience? A well kept secret of the most successful companies across the globe is speed-to-learn. If you can learn quickly, you can change quickly, and if you can change quickly, you can capitalise on crises, extreme events, and the ever-shifting inclinations of consumers.
Operational agility Post-Covid workplace Strategy Whitepaper
The Right Kind of Innovation
Looking out at the current business landscape, it’s evident that the established order is disassembling everywhere we turn: the pace of change makes innovation a priority for every organisation. But prioritising ideas, evaluating what to invest in and quantifying impact is still a stumbling block for many businesses.
Innovation Operational agility Shaping culture Strategy
The Age of Unlearning
As the world resets from a period of rapid change, business leaders must break legacy thinking or die. The unlearning curve is steep, but standing still and assuming tomorrow will look like today is a fallacy. The fastest to unlearn will win. Innovation alliances and ecosystems help business leaders to see themselves through others. At the dawn of the great reset, now is the time to let things go. If not now, when?
Innovation Operational agility Partnerships
Lessons in Co-Creation from the Automotive Industry
Businesses can’t innovate at speed if they work alone. In a post-Covid business landscape, agile companies innovate by embracing co-creation and the transparent exchange of ideas. Collaborations in the auto industry offer an inspiring example of how these strategic relationships can change the world.
Innovation Operational agility Partnerships Strategy
Collaborating through Adversity
The London Office of Technology and Innovation (LOTI) connects the London’s 33 boroughs and during the pandemic has focused on three key areas of collaboration to help London - sharing knowledge, collaborating on new ideas and mitigating the risk of innovation.
Data strategy & BI Innovation Operational agility Partnerships
Does Crisis Create Lessons for Successful Business Change?
We often display more resilience and inventiveness in times of crises than during business-as-usual. Can our response to pandemics and other devastating events provide us with lessons for change and innovation?
Operational agility Post-Covid workplace Shaping culture
Distant, but close: a new way to experience spaces in the “liquid” office
The experience of the past months has been an opportunity to reflect on the office of the future. Here's how we imagined it. Translated from Italian
Hybrid working IoT Operational agility Team dynamic
Thwarting the Effects of Black Swan Events with Data
In a world where uncertainty is the only thing that is certain, data quality and data semantics have the potential to minimise the impact of unexpected events. Data intelligence can add value, optimise business processes, and help build stable foundations that can hold the organisation steady when it hits the next unpredictable event.
Data strategy & BI Operational agility Strategy
Three Simple Hacks to Underpin an Entrepreneurial Culture
We all need better ways to deal with change. In times of disruption, organisations should focus on creating a culture where change equals opportunity. Operating metaphors, inverted organisation charts and weekly experiments could be the key to creating this culture.
Operational agility Organisational design Strategy Working practices
Transformation: The Power of Vision in Times of Change
Embarking on continuous transformation is one of the most significant decisions a CEO has to make, but 2020 has taught us that we must prepare for the unexpected. Vision, ambition, commitment and conviction will be required of not only the leadership team, but everyone in the organisation.
Operational agility Shaping culture Strategy Talent management
Going Systemic: Surviving And Thriving In The Uncertainty Economy
Future-proofing our organisations is only possible when we start to see the world through a new lens, and adjust to conditions of uncertainty with radical rethinking.
Design & UX Operational agility Post-Covid workplace Strategy
Purpose Begins at Home
The pandemic has forced us to reconsider conventional approaches to management as we are united in a common experience, barriers between the professional and personal are blurred, and ultimately we realise our stakeholders are human. There is now huge potential for positive change in both social and economic spaces, if organisations look for the opportunities for good.
Diversity, equity & inclusion Hybrid working Operational agility Purpose
Stop, Look, Listen: How Customer-Centricity Will Save You When Everything’s Changing
The tech of 2012 saved us in our time of need. But organisations don’t need to be able to predict the future, instead they must embrace customer-centred rapid-innovation, even when it may conflict with traditional ways of doing business.
CX Design & UX Innovation Operational agility