By Fouad Bendris It cost nothing and it helped more work get done. At first glance, the financial gain is negligible; it’s simply a benefit we added that did not increase our personnel budget. But looking deeper there … Read More

By Fouad Bendris There’s power in being more flexible than your competition. Many of the companies leading today’s technology-driven transformations across industries are leveraging transitional strategies, or more specifically transitional business platforms. Few old-guard players have recognized the power … Read More

By Fouad Bendris Six tips for effective data storytelling, as learned from work being done at the Navy. 1. Speak the same language 2. Tell the story, then show the pictures 3. Develop your characters 4. Show “What-If?” 5. … Read More

By Fouad Bendris The overwrought claims—and actual promise—of the next generation of self-managed teams ! In fact self-management models are intricately nested. A holacracy circle, for example, may contain several subcircles, each with subcircles of its own. At Zappos … Read More

By Fouad Bendris As Innovation and Growth Strategy consultants we have methods, processes, and exercises that we apply to client problems, but what is even more impactful is something else ultimately. That something is perhaps the rarest asset in … Read More

By Fouad Bendris Or do they just think differently? Business people and business theorists love to draw distinctions between management and leadership. They tell us that “managers do things right; leaders do the right thing” and “management is administration, but … Read More

By Fouad Bendris While enterprise technology has always been somewhat a breed apart from consumer tech, this year we see that consumer tech will definitively set the agenda for businesses like never before in this year’s list of tech … Read More

By Fouad Bendris The key actions CIOs must take to anticipate their industry disruption and align their IT organization to the competitive challenges of the digital economy.Fouad Bendris’s insight:First: Shift your concern from infrastructure efficiency to organizational agility An industry … Read More

By Fouad Bendris Unfortunately, more than a few data lake projects are off track. Data is going in but it’s not coming out, at least not at the pace envisioned. What’s the chokepoint? It tends to be some combination of … Read More

By Fouad Bendris Reorganization can boost company performance, but the results are often disappointing. A smart new approach dramatically increases the likelihood of success. Recognizing that company performance is determined above all by employees’ behaviors, it uses a variety … Read More

By Fouad Bendris It’s voting season, and we all know how candidates for office act. They have to be light on their feet, but their behavior is anything but ‘agile‘… and their habits would destroy any agile project. Once … Read More

By Fouad Bendris Post-career life has changed, and it demands a new approach. ery day in the United States more than 10,000 people turn 65. For decades this was the typical retirement age. Starting in their early fifties, but … Read More

By Fouad Bendris The robotics industry is experiencing an investment boom, as the technology develops. What could it mean for humans? Although the amount of money flowing into a new robotics industry is still at a relatively early stage, … Read More

By Fouad Bendris Putting data to its maximum use and achieving optimal results remains a huge challenge for both tech leaders and business executives.Fouad Bendris’s insight:It’s no secret that data increasingly defines the enterprise. In fact, a growing number … Read More

By Fouad Bendris When you’re hiring a new manager, the stakes are high. You need someone who can effectively lead people, manage a budget, liaise with upper management — and, usually, do it all from day one. But what if … Read More

By Fouad Bendris What happens after companies jettison traditional year-end evaluations? Most corporate performance-management systems don’t work today, because they are rooted in models for specializing and continually optimizing discrete work tasks. These models date back more than a century, … Read More

By Fouad Bendris In the last few weeks, we’ve seen a lot of supposed mega hacks garner big media attention. And why not? We’re talking about more than 1 billion people at risk — if these breaches had been real … Read More

By Fouad Bendris It’s called “ethical amnesia.” Just recently, Mitsubishi Motors, Japan’s sixth-largest automaker, admitted that for 25 years it had used methods to test the fuel economy of its vehicles that did not comply with Japanese government regulations. … Read More