Make ESG strategic with AI that improves data integrity, speeds compliance, strengthens governance and finance, fuels innovation, and embeds responsible AI and cybersecurity with tools teams can use on day one Key FeaturesTurn ESG from compliance to strategy with AI-enabled data, transparency, and trustNavigate frameworks and governance from boardroom to capital markets with actionable toolsApply ESG+AI across innovation, cities, health, inclus...

Leverage hackathons as a powerful catalyst for rapid innovation, empowering you to tackle your organization's challenges head-on through collaborative engagement. Expert review and foreword by Johan Soderstrom, Executive Advisor to the CEO, Hitachi EnergyKey FeaturesLearn how to identify challenges in your organization quickly by engaging peopleUnderstand how to organize your hackathon to find practical and impactful solutionsExecute winning so...

How to succeed in an era of ecosystem-based disruption: strategies and tools for offense, defense, timing, and leadership in a changing competitive landscape.The basis of competition is changing. Are you prepared? Rivalry is shifting from well-defined industries to broader ecosystems: automobiles to mobility platforms; banking to fintech; television broadcasting to video streaming. Your competitors are coming from new directions and pursuing different goals from th...

If you're like most business leaders, innovation now tops your corporate agenda. But despite all the talk and excitement about the importance of innovation, managers have so far found scant help for innovating in a systematic way that fuels consistent growth and sustained success.In Innovation to the Core, Strategos CEO Peter Skarzynski and business strategist Rowan Gibson change all that. They share the accumulated wisdom from Strategos--the consulting firm Skarzynski co-founded w...

Innovation Strategy: Seven Keys to Creative Leadership and a Sustainable Business Model provides a blueprint for success in leading an innovation renaissance in your industry and organization. This book introduces the Six Step Collective Intelligence system and the Idea Accelerator software, ground breaking tools that will prepare you for the role of Innovation Strategist in the new global economy.This book reveals strategies for becoming a creative leader...

Mastering the Cube skillfully lays out proven organization design principles. Comparing today’s complex organizations to a Rubik’s Cube, the authors explain how focusing improvement efforts on just one or two facets of the organization is akin to concentrating on just one side of the cube. Doing so is bound to affect—and more likely jumble—the other areas needed to generate a healthy and sustainable organization. They advocate stepping back and taking a systems-wide, comprehensive view of ...

As a leader the need for enhanced skills is increasing, the future leader is a collaborative leader and the old style of command and control leadership just doesn't cut it anymore. Current leaders need to be flexible and adaptable and leaders of change. In this book strategies are provided on how to increase all areas of leadership skill such as communication, conflict management, dealing with remote teams, increasing technological aptitude and more. A master leader today is someone who en...

Change is constant—so become great at it.If you read nothing else on change management, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you lead initiatives effectively, avoid common mistakes, and capture the full value of your change effort.This book will inspire you to:Communicate the benefits of change clearlyWin support through compelling storytelling

Innovation is essential for businesses to survive in the long run, but there are no one-size-fits-all strategies for innovating successfully. A firm's specific business environment will determine what works and what does not work.Based on a global survey of innovative firms and on 50 in-depth case studies, Innovation Reinvented identifies six patterns or 'games' of innovation, each commanding best-of-class strategies and best practices. Examining recognized innovative comp...

Seize control of your company's future--even in times of business disruption and market turmoilFrom expanding global markets to an intensifying "war" for human resources, disruptive shifts are now a fact of business life. The ability to anticipate and adapt to such changes is what will separate the winners from the losers in the very near future. Creating the organizational agility necessary to compete in this new environment doesn't begin with the brute force of spending huge su...

Ready for the Future or Stuck in the Past?Millennials have been condemned as lazy, entitled, disloyal, and disrespectful and needing constant hand-holding. But Crystal Kadakia—a Millennial herself as well as an organizational development consultant and two-time TEDx speaker—shows that not only are these negative stereotypes dead wrong, but each one conceals a positive workplace practice that forward-looking companies must adopt if they are to endure. She illuminate...

This book provides a definitive guide for the future direction of the practice and profession of architecture.In five parts, Cliff Moser provides you with all the tools and know-how to implement changes that will serve you and your practice in the short, medium and long term. Written at a crucial time for the industry, this is essential reading for every architect.