Posts Tagged ‘automation’
Boards Can’t Wait for CEOs to Prioritize Digital Change | HBR
… insular corporate culture that was slow to respond to threats from traditional competitors, and now digital ones. P&G’s Gillette razor brand was a case in point; it had steadily lost market share and had to cut prices when online upstarts Dollar Shave Club and Harry’s arrived on the competitive scene.
Source: Boards Can’t Wait for CEOs to Prioritize Digital Change | HBR
Read MoreThe Board Directors You Need for a Digital Transformation | HBR
- Digital thinker. The director has had little direct interaction with digital as an operator but conceptually understands the digital environment. They have been a board director or adviser in a digital business but are not a digital native.
- Digital disruptor. The director has been deeply embedded in digital, often with experience from a pure-play company. This type of leader typically has less general management breadth.
- Digital leader. The director has had substantial experience running a traditional business that leverages digital in a significant way (retail or media, for example). It’s likely that this person has less hands-on digital experience but has managed disruption as a general manager.
- Digital transformer. The director has led or participated in a transformation of a traditional business. Typically the person does not have the seniority of a digital leader but is more digitally astute.
Digital transformation needs to be wholesale. Digital innovation needs to permeate and recast every aspect of the business and the board. Companies that do so will thrive in the new world, and those that do not, sooner or later, will fail.
Source: The Board Directors You Need for a Digital Transformation | HBR
Read MoreThe case for digital reinvention | McKinsey & Company
This finding confirms what many executives may already suspect: by reducing economic friction, digitization enables competition that pressures revenue and profit growth. Current levels of digitization have already taken out, on average, up to six points of annual revenue and 4.5 points of growth in earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT). And there’s more pressure ahead, our research suggests, as digital penetration deepens.
Source: The case for digital reinvention | McKinsey & Company
Read More25% of CEOs’ Time Is Spent on Tasks Machines Could Do | Harvard Business Review
Like President Johnson in the 1960s, we see that automation could make a major contribution to productivity and prosperity… For companies around the world, automation will offer the potential to capture substantial value — and not just from labor substitution. These technologies enable higher throughput, enhanced quality, better outcomes, greater safety, and the opportunity to scale up or adopt new business models.
Source: 25% of CEOs’ Time Is Spent on Tasks Machines Could Do
Read MoreNavigating Change
00:01 change it doesn’t call ahead it doesn’t
00:05 send a memo on how it plans to change
00:07 your business it comes out of nowhere
00:08 and leaves you in chaos but before its
00:12 arrival it sends millions of tiny
00:14 messages numbers trends data find the
00:19 clues see the patterns and change the
00:22 fortunes of your business
Source: Navigating Change
Read MoreIBM Watson enters ‘Big Four’ accounting firm duel for A.I. dominance – New York Business Journal
In July 2014, the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) published results of a survey which found that 85 percent of CPAs expected an increase in the amount of time they spend on electronic data analysis in the “near” future, according to an Accounting Web report. A quarter of the 180 CPAs surveyed listed big-data analysis as one of the top industry challenges in the future and 20 percent listed increased complexity and scrutiny in engagements.
Source: IBM Watson enters ‘Big Four’ accounting firm duel for A.I. dominance – New York Business Journal
Read MoreThe Innovator’s Solution by Clayton Christensen
Utilizing in-depth research of multiple companies and industries, the authors identify what actions and practices are essential for companies to embrace new disruptive innovations and avoid being disrupted themselves.
Source: The Innovator’s Solution by Clayton Christensen
Read MoreThe Checklist Manifesto | Atul Gawande
Over the past decade, through his writing in The New Yorker magazine and his books Complications and Better, Atul Gawande has made a name for himself as a writer of exquisitely crafted meditations on the problems and challenges of modern medicine. His latest book, The Checklist Manifesto, begins on familiar ground, with his experiences as a surgeon. But before long it becomes clear that he is really interested in a problem that afflicts virtually every aspect of the modern world–and that is how professionals deal with the increasing complexity of their responsibilities. It has been years since I read a book so powerful and so thought-provoking.
Source: The Checklist Manifesto | Atul Gawande
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