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Change Can Come From Anywhere

Digital Tonto

Discussions about change tend to gravitate to one of two poles: Either change has to come from the top or it has to be grass roots. The answer doesn’t lie in any specific strategy or initiative, but in how people are able to internalize the need for change and transfer ideas through social bonds.

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How “True Believers” Can Undermine Change

Digital Tonto

Change leaders feel so passionately about their idea they want to push it through and silence dissent. Meaningful change can’t be mandated or forced, it can only be empowered. One of the most difficult things about leading change is that we need to let people embrace it for their own reasons and in their own way.

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3 Reasons Why Change Fails

Digital Tonto

People like to quote the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus, who said things like “the only constant is change” and “no man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” They’re clever quotes and they give us confidence that the change we seek is not only possible, but inevitable.

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Change Management is strategy and vice versa

Jeffrey Phillips

But what struck me about their work is that they also focus on culture and change management. In a time when everyone is focused on analytics, on artificial intelligence, on strategy and on mission, focusing on change and culture is almost counterintuitive, but it's probably what we should be focusing on. Change is difficult.

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in!

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Who is minding the change and culture store?

Jeffrey Phillips

In my last two blogs, I made the argument that given how fast change is happening, your strategy must incorporate and address external change and the ability to change internally. In the more recent blog, I wrote about what I consider the most difficult thing to change in an organization - its culture.

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The pandemic has changed our personalities

Idea to Value

New research from September 2022 has looked at how the Big 5 Personality traits of more than 7,109 people in the USA have changed over time, comparing their results before the pandemic to 2022. 2022) Differential personality change earlier and later in the coronavirus pandemic in a longitudinal sample of adults in the United States.

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How Automation is Driving Efficiency Through the Last Mile of Reporting

Speaker: Jamie Eagan

Overcoming challenges and embracing change: Gain practical strategies and best practices for overcoming common barriers to digital transformation within finance departments and learn how to effectively manage change to maximize the benefits of automation. 📅 April 24, 2024 at 11:00 am PT, 2:00 pm ET, 7:00 pm GMT

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Navigating the VUCA World With Innovation Coaching

Speaker: Janet Sernack, Founder and CEO of ImagineNation

The current rate of unprecedented change and disruption to "business as usual" is causing a wide range of reactive responses within our organizations as well as by some leaders, many of whom are struggling to operate sensibly and proactively in a VUCA world. November 26, 2019 2:30 PM PST, 5:30 PM EST, 10:30 PM GMT.

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How To Create A Movement To Drive Transformation In Your Company Or Industry

Speaker: Greg Satell

Everybody has something they'd like to change, whether it is a problem in their organization, their industry, their community or society at large. But how can you get your ideas for change to take hold beyond a small circle of likeminded people? Through rich and vivid examples, he will explain how you make ideas spread.

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Business Agile: A Roadmap for Transforming Your Management & Adapting to the VUCA Environment

Speaker: Peter Taylor, Speaker/Author, The Lazy Project Manager

Business agile is an approach that gives the right business flexibility and fast decision-making in a volatile environment, providing a great capacity for innovation, adaptation and change. How to guide your management team and change agents on how to get productively business agile.

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The 5 Levels of Analytics Maturity

How have analytics changed? Basic dashboards used to be enough to thrill end users. But over time, modern capabilities have emerged—and bare-minimum features are no longer cutting it. And where do your BI offerings fall short? Find out sophisticated ways to future-proof your application. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks.

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Retail Reimagined: What It Means To Be An Innovative Retailer

Speaker: DeAnna McIntosh, Retail Growth Strategist

The past three years have forever changed the retail landscape. Companies of all sizes were forced to welcome change with open arms and surrender to total flexibility in order to be agile in the ever-evolving economic environment.