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Why Your Board Needs a Technological Stewardship Committee

Forty years ago, was a time well before anyone had ever heard of a Chief Technology Officer or a Chief Information Officer. Picture yourself sitting on the board of a...

How to Create a Breakthrough in Organizational Performance

What’s the most significant thing you can do to ensure organizational performance so that progress continues? Adopting an evidence-based mindset, an open-minded attitude that would seek to identify what has...

How to Achieve Goal Alignment — GAP™—An Organizational Breakthrough

With the explosion of corporate mergers, acquisitions, right-sizing, and the evolution of e-business, companies must execute dynamic corporate strategies to adapt and keep up their competitive advantage successfully. The agility...

How to Tackle the Challenges of Digital Transformation

The accelerating rate of change in business, the economy and society challenges both business and HR to adopt new rules for leading, organizing, motivating, managing and engaging the 21st-century workforce....

The Board Sets the Direction — Moreover It Sets the Tone

In this insight about board dynamics, I offer lessons from 25+ years as a CEO and my broad experience as a board member. An organization’s chief executive officer is the...

Promising Practices in Governance

Promising practices for Boards that will benefit every organization: Nose in, hands off Build a robust and qualified board of directors and evaluate the performance Define roles and responsibilities Emphasize...

Recognizing, Managing and Preventing Board Director Bad Behaviour

Is it considered a sport in your organization to criticize the deficiency of your board or any of its members? I have experienced it first hand by both management and...

5 Strategies For Big-Picture Thinking

Need to get a grasp on the big picture? Start small. But how can you empower yourself to step back and look at the big picture so you can lead...

Are CEOs Being Held to a Higher Standard?

A higher standard Forced turnovers for ethical lapses rose to 5.3% of all global CEO successions from 3.9% over the last five years, according to consulting firm PwC’s recent Strategy &...

How to be successful in meeting your corporate goals

It is lonely at the top, especially for CEOs. Most CEOs lack a means to systematically gather the precise information from all levels of the business. While CEOs are often...

Generative Governing Increases Board Effectiveness

There is urgent interest in the problems of boards, and a growing demand for more accountability. Boards do not think about or debate governing; they just do it. Many boards...

CEOs — How to be Effective in Succession Planning

"The CEO can serve as a catalyst for encouraging the board to begin thinking about succession earlier than they otherwise might and, certainly, long before a transition is anticipated." Spencer...

Governments—How to create better outcomes for citizens

Sir Michael Barber’s report “Delivering better outcomes for citizens: practical steps for unlocking public value,” published in November 2017 provides valuable insight into how to meet this challenge. It offers...

The trillion-dollar prize: Plugging government revenue leaks with advanced analytics

Few fiscal opportunities are bigger than reducing revenue leakages from tax and payment abuse. Now, new sources of data and new analytics tools are giving governments the upper hand. Rare...

Welcome to the Era of the Ai Coworkers

Last fall, Google Translate rolled out a new-and-improved artificial intelligence translation engine that it claimed was, at times, “nearly indistinguishable” from human translation. Jost Zetzsche could only roll his eyes. The German native...

MindBridge™ Analytics Inc. Named One of Canada’s Companies-to-Watch in the 2017 Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ Awards

Ottawa, ON, November 9, 2017— MindBridge Analytics Inc. received a Companies-to-Watch award that recognizes early-stage companies with strong growth potential. As part of the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 program, the Companies-to-Watch...

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