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The North Star takes a deep dive into the topic of strategy execution, often challenging conventional wisdom for achieving an organization’s strategic vision. The host and thought leaders from multiple fields explore concepts that include rethinking innovation, increasing enterprise agility, transitioning to the circular economy, managing enterprise risk and becoming a cognitive enterprise. Setting sights on one’s “north star” is only half the story. Decades of experience point to the headwinds organizations have faced in pursuit of their strategic vision. To that end, the North Star examines how organizations can more effectively deliver on critical business strategies in these uncertain times. The show tackles intractable challenges that many organizations have historically sidestepped, such as optimizing major program investments and untangling high risk technology deployments. While the show often points toward the road less traveled, that road that can make all the difference.
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This episode of The North Star will highlight best practices for end-to-end strategy execution based on insights collected from the more than 2 dozen industry experts interviewed over the past 6 months.
Organizations around the globe rely on manual work, spreadsheets, and similar desktop tools to perform both mundane and sophisticated tasks.
This encore of Episode 1 of the North Star establishes the show's purpose, basic themes and range of topics to be covered.
Prior episodes of The North Star identified business architecture as a positive factor in successful strategy execution.
Historically, strategy execution has been a linear process, where one group sets strategy and another group implements it. In practice, implementation teams often hold different views of what should be done from the strategy setting team.
Enterprise design is the collaborative practice of designing and creating better enterprises.
Every project has opponents who try to manipulate that project for their own gain. This is a well-hidden truth. As most people who have been associated with executing strategy are aware, good projects intentionally gone bad is a reality.
Cyber security is a critical issue that is becoming progressively more critical and at the same time more complex, affecting everything that computes, manages, and communicates information.
On this episode of The North Star, we will explore the root causes of underperforming software teams.
Long ago, U.S. states set their own standards for railroads, meaning tracks did not align as trains traveled cross country, creating more than an inconvenience.
Have you ever been involved in a “brute force” cost cutting exercise? Ever felt helpless as valuable programs were eliminated or gutted and skilled talent walked out the door? If so, you are not alone.
Multiple studies show that strategy execution is a major challenge for corporations and government agencies of all types and sizes.
This episode of The North Star focuses on the practical role of cognitive computing and AI in organizations.
When a business executive told the board of directors of their financial services firm that their computer systems were preventing them from offering a new type of fund to their customers, he was met with looks of disbelief.
Most organizations with notable investments in computing technologies are saddled with highly coupled, monolithic software systems that date back decades and undercut their ability to deliver customer value, compete effectively, and ultimately thrive.
More and more organizations are seeking to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. AI is promoted as being able to transform every aspect of how organizations function, yet this vision is far from reality.
This episode of The North Star challenges what has been a long-held assumption by business professionals around the world – that formally defined, automated business process models increase efficiency, effectiveness, and resiliency.
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