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