By Fouad Bendris No enterprise today can afford to spend a year or more incorporating digital technology into its core. The technology and the competition move too fast. Yet most Fortune 500 companies take at least that long just to put … Read More

By Fouad Bendris Reality check You might think that businesses would be a beacon of logic and reality in this sea of un-truthiness. With all of the data at our disposal, we should be able to uncover and accept the inconvenient … Read More

By Fouad Bendris two types of people struggling in their pursuit of a better job, a better career, and ultimately, a better life. Those who are, “unqualified” – can’t get employers to take them seriously.Those who are, “overqualified” – can’t convince … Read More

By Fouad Bendris Gartner’s Data-Driven Marketing Survey, 2015, revealed that marketers expect most of their decisions to be quantitatively driven by 2017. As a result, more than 50% of companies plan to grow their analytics teams. This will require hiring managers … Read More

By Fouad Bendris In today’s digitally driven world, companies are competing ferociously for technological skills. They believe the ability to create the hard code that makes a product come to life is at the heart of their success. Without code, after … Read More

By Fouad Bendris McKinsey’s proprietary benchmarking survey conducted annually with a dozen regional and superregional banks in the United States supports the axiom that investing more in IT is not as important as investing smartly. The latest responses gleaned from a … Read More

By Fouad Bendris Invariably, these well-intentioned efforts fail for the simple reason that they’re trying to replicate the wrong model. Silicon Valley is too new, too now, to glean lessons from. Those hoping to launch the world’s next great innovation hub … Read More

By Fouad Bendris Managers are increasingly nervous about the lack of progress in their digital initiatives. Too often, organizations merely add digital “pixie dust” to traditional processes or engage in a frenzy of digital experiments and ventures. Rather than drive competitive … Read More

By Fouad Bendris For them, it no longer is about coming to a job every day and putting in their time in exchange for a paycheck… it becomes about waking up every day to be a part of a movement… … Read More

By Fouad Bendris Technology-driven trends will revolutionize how industry players respond to changing consumer behavior, develop partnerships, and drive transformational change. A McKinsey & Company article.Fouad Bendris’s insight:Once technological and regulatory issues have been resolved, up to 15 percent of … Read More

By Fouad Bendris This article is published in collaboration with The Financial Times. What is it exactly that is spooking world currency markets?So why is something that doesn’t dominate trading, dominating trading?The offshore renminbi is one mechanism through which … Read More

By Fouad Bendris n theory, management and shareholder activists have the same goal: maximizing long-term value. A stronger and more valuable company not only benefits its shareholders financially, but lays the economic foundation for the company to serve the interests of … Read More

By Fouad Bendris Most of us feel loyalty, whether to our clan, our comrades, an organization, or a cause. These loyalties are often important aspects of our social identity. Once a necessity for survival and propagation of the species, loyalty to … Read More

By Fouad Bendris Behavioral scientists have been researching the different ways people motivate themselves and others for decades. Their experiments have shown, for instance, that people work harder when they get feedback, set ambitious goals, and are given incentivizes.But after recently … Read More

By Fouad Bendris Companies don’t need more ideas, they need ideas that are more meaningful. Companies have plenty ideas because they measure and track the number of new ideas generated. Meaningful ideas are, by definition, understood by a few and … Read More

By Fouad Bendris It can signal ways to boost morale.“Sentiment analysis” promises not just to identify workplace pain-points, butanticipate them. How employees use tools like Slack, Sharepoint, Yammer, email, blogs, or LinkedIn to share thoughts and coordinate actions invariably yields … Read More

By Fouad Bendris A few years ago, Ford Motor Company started asking its (mostly male) engineers to wear the Empathy Belly, a simulator that allows them to experience symptoms of pregnancy firsthand—the back pain, the bladder pressure, the 30 or so … Read More

By Fouad Bendris How Do You Develop Learning Agility?Since developing learning agility involves learning to recognize and change automatic routines, the aid of a coach can be invaluable. Coaching, which Peterson calls “the ultimate customized learning solution,” helps clients understand how … Read More