Strategy
An effective innovation strategy can drive business results, but does your company’s growth depend on it? Join the conversation and discuss topics that include: improving innovation results, driving above-market rates of organic growth through innovation, and harnessing global capacity and capability to drive innovation.
Implementing an IT system is challenging enough in a single location, but add multiple campuses to the mix and new and unique challenges begin to arise. Global organizational alignment is critical to overcoming these challenges.
What will it take to compete and win in a dynamic, digital world? We’ve got 21 innovation imperatives to help you prepare, equip and evolve to compete and grow in the 21st century. Requiring particular emphasis - implementing digital operations, skills and processes to deliver internal value.
Don't make the mistake of jumping into a global IT system implementation without taking a hard look at what you’re automating first. Avoid this "fix all" approach by viewing the IT system as a tool to lock-in a process. It cannot, on its own, fix process problems.
A successful strategic foresight project can continue to drive value for years to come. By ensuring buy in from the organization and key stakeholders and adjusting scenarios as necessary, you can make your foresight journey is a successful one.
Financial benefits from global IT system implementations often take the form of headcount reductions. But, these reductions cannot only be accounted for by the team sponsoring the initiative. They need to be calculated globally across the entire enterprise.
During Strategic Foresight, the Plan Phase is used to prioritize opportunity areas, ideate new products, services, and experiences, and provide external landmarks for ongoing portfolio management.
Exciting new technologies in Reformation’s stores are disrupting traditional shopping and driving foot traffic.
This series provides leading practices for avoiding the top ten most common mistakes made during the implementation of large global IT systems in support of R&D or other business processes. Read on to learn how to avoid mistake #1: The "Global" Roll Out
In the second phase of strategic foresight - Anticipate - we forecast trends into the future and analyze how they will interact to create novel future environments.
During the first phase of Strategic Foresight - Discover - the goal is to understand what elements of the external environment impact value creation and indicate forces of change.
Strategic foresight enables companies to build a proprietary view of the future that drives breakthrough innovation. But not all foresight approaches are created equal. Here are our recommendations for a 3-phase process customized for innovation.
Strategic foresight is a discipline that provides a structured way to investigate, not predict, the future. Strategic foresight scenarios are provocative, yet plausible, alternative views of the future. But where did this idea come from?
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