The Powerful Innovation Culture: Challenges & Benefits

Introduction  Why is there such a dichotomy among Fortune500 companies on the value of a proactive and sustaining innovation workplace? Nowadays, COVID-19 changing market dynamics coupled with continual economic disruption, business disintermediation, and revolutionary technology introduction should be compelling grounds for business leaders to champion a robust corporate innovation culture Read more…

Organization Personality: Encourage & Empower

Introduction Organization Personality epitomizes how an institution perceives, interprets, evaluates, and responds to real and potential risks, problems, and opportunities with employees, patrons, and partners. An organization’s personality is the melding of dominant employee traits, cognition, and emotional patterns with external and internal influencers that encourage and empower workplace behavior. Read more…

Strategic Alignment Model: Creating & Leveraging Value

Introduction Information Technology (IT) investments have become one of the more critical and expensive items in a company’s investment portfolio. Best-in-class organizations ensure that these investments are helping to provide real business value with the use of the strategic alignment model.  The Strategic Alignment Model (SAM) provides an organization with a robust Read more…

The Customer Experience (CX): Expectations & Perceptions

Introduction  Profitable long-term customer relationships are the lifeblood of a successful company! This truism supports that effective customer interactions, in the current economy, are carried out in a professional, and problem-free manner. Today’s smart consumers expect more value from their providers with a dedicated focus on relevance, product availability, ease Read more…

Successful Business Partner Relationship Characteristics

Introduction   A top priority of strategic-focused business executives is the responsibility to establish and continually enrich long-term business relationships with supply chain partners that contribute directly or indirectly to the continual growth and profitability of their business. History has witnessed, in the 21st century, that even companies, with exceptional and Read more…