By Juliet Hammond, LIW Business Impact Consultant
From ecosystems and the cloud, to teams and individuals, our research covers everyone this month. MIT Researchers sort through the myths and realities of ecosystems. HBR writers get excited about the opportunities of the Personal Learning Cloud, and we’re encouraged to embrace generational shifts and develop leadership in […]
By Juliet Hammond, LIW Business Impact Consultant
There’s plenty of advice for leaders this month. HBR finds new leaders struggle most with culture fit, while an experienced McKinsey leader encourages us to keep learning. Beware optimism – it can make you complacent and you need to develop resilience. Soft skills are the new hard skills, […]
By Juliet Hammond, LIW Business Impact Consultant
This month there’s a focus on motivation and on the opportunities in the data. It seems that to get the best out of your team you need humility and they need recognition and a sense of purpose. It’s not rocket science!
McKinsey finds only 5% of companies are effective […]
By Juliet Hammond, LIW Business Impact Consultant
McKinsey research suggests that for AI to flourish it needs a solid technology base and only 10% of companies have that yet. Digital technology brings huge opportunities in pharma for speed and scale, and for leaders everywhere to make better data-informed decisions – if they know how to […]
By Juliet Hammond, LIW Business Impact Consultant
Analysts suggest digitalisation will deliver big productivity gains but we have to develop new work methods to access them. McKinsey research backs this up and identifies four reasons for the failure of digital strategies – lack of clarity, misunderstanding economics, ignoring ecosystems and new competitors. Next to be […]
By Juliet Hammond, LIW Business Impact Consultant
Leadership research is currently dominated by digitalisation and how leadership needs to evolve to leverage opportunities and meet challenges. McKinsey identifies pitfalls in digital strategies and offers alternatives to help you succeed. Two case studies on organisations embracing agile show us that purpose and autonomy are the perfect […]
By Juliet Hammond, LIW Business Impact Consultant
Microsoft has defined radical simplicity in leadership with just three ‘big ideas’, while new research this month offers three definitions of leadership that all include attention – now is the time to be present. Dan Rockwell offers advice for leaders – to be proactive, humble, courageous, forward-thinking and […]
By Juliet Hammond, LIW Business Impact Consultant
This month’s UK Learning Technologies keynote was about learning to learn – we need meaning, analogies and reflection not just memory. AI presents big opportunities for businesses and they are investing and retraining staff to make the most of it. Some applications may pose a challenge though as […]
By Juliet Hammond, LIW Business Impact Consultant
2018 looks set to be a year of change for many of us with research focusing on innovation, agility and disruption.
LIW’s newest associate, Michael Meaney, has written a great piece on Peter Senge’s Necessary Revolution to link business and nature sustainably. KPMG finds 74% of companies want to […]
By Juliet Hammond, LIW Business Impact Consultant
Hold on to your hats! New research into the neurology of leadership reminds us that the best development is social, engages emotions and has a sound knowledge base. The learning experience will change too – and CLOs are encouraged to get into the data to leverage AI and […]