organizational design
It’s easy enough to embrace the idea of customer obsession. Yet putting it into practice may require radically changing deeply rooted processes and longstanding silos. Find advice for transforming your organizational design, and learn the steep paybacks for doing so.
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Empathy And Removing The Sludge Will Create A Healthier Workplace For Clinicians
At the ICD Media Group’s Healthcare Burnout Symposium, healthcare thought leaders dove into the origins of and continuing reasons for clinician burnout. Read this blog to learn three key issues to consider in confronting clinician burnout at your organization.
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Lead A High-Performing Digital Team
Digital teams are primarily tasked with designing, delivering, and managing digital products or services, launching digital innovations, and developing the digital roadmap.
Navigate 2025 With Our Predictions Insights
Our predictions may not be a crystal ball, but they offer a clear view of what’s ahead. Visit our 2025 Predictions hub featuring guides, blogs, and webinars to give B2B, B2C, and technology leaders a competitive edge in 2025.
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Cross-Functional Org Models Boost Innovation And Operational Efficiency
Cross-functional org models can have a big impact on your digital transformation. Learn how to determine which cross-functional org models are best suited to your business objectives.
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Teamwork Lessons From Config 2024
Read on to learn how Figma is approaching rapid growth, organization, partnership, craftsmanship, and collaboration.
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Digital Business Strategy Service Providers Must Evolve To Deliver Value
Value creation should be at the center of each criterion for selecting digital service providers.
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Can Platform Teams Improve Shared Services?
Business and technology leaders are moving away from shared services due to their association with delays, inflexibility, and bureaucracy. These negative perceptions have led organizations to seek alternatives to meet their agile and digital team requirements.
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Winning At Digital: Building A Purposeful Digital Marketing Team
Learn how to communicate the capabilities and competencies needed to deliver compelling digital customer experiences and advance your business strategy.
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CX Transformation Is Tough — Equip Your Org To Go The Distance
Danger! Obstacles Ahead! Customer experience (CX) has been a professional competency for two decades, and “Prove CX ROI” is still our CX clients’ top priority! Forrester’s data shows that 86% of CX professionals are building (or rebuilding) their business cases. Regardless of how much distance you have covered on your transformation journey, how many projects […]
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Skills Management Can Make Or Break Your Emerging Tech Plans
Our new report How To Tackle Your Emerging Tech Skill Gaps introduces two frameworks that help business leaders address emerging skill needs.
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Embarking On New Research: From Technical Architects To MTO, Platforms, EAM, And Technical Debt
I am happy to announce that I have completed my series of reports about the technical architect, including the expectations for this role, how to help technical architects succeed, and the trends that impact them: Evolve Your Technical Architects For Modern IT First 90 Days: Technical Architect Role Profile: Technical Architect Although the initial research […]
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Five Innovative Organizational Concepts Can Help Tech Execs Become Future Fit By Design
Changing business landscapes have prompted IT organizations to explore creative and innovative ways of structuring their business and operating models. Five key organizational concepts have emerged as particularly promising approaches: fractal organization, distributed autonomous organization, ecosystem organization, boundaryless organization, and adaptive organization.
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Advance Digital Marketing Capabilities And Competencies To Achieve New Outcomes
Learn how to communicate the capabilities and competencies needed to deliver compelling digital customer experiences and advance your business strategy.
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Reconfiguring Reporting Lines Is No Quick Fix: Insights From Our B2B Marketing Predictions Webinar
Our recent B2B marketing Predictions webinar explored how some organizations will try to strengthen marketing-sales alignment. Learn how that could fall short — and what the better alternatives are.
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Five Reasons Why CISOs Should Report To CEOs
Cybersecurity problems won’t disappear, but CISOs who are elevated in the organization run better cybersecurity programs.
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The Three Essentials To Optimizing B2B Marketing Orchestration
When it comes to getting the best out of a marketing organization, what you do and how you do it are equally important. Discover three keys to optimizing marketing processes and workflows.
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Three Steps To Build B2B Digital Marketing Capabilities
For B2B marketing leaders looking to achieve digital transformation, it’s important to know what your specific aims are and break down the endeavor into smaller, defined steps.
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How Transforming Your Marketing Operating Model Is Like Driving In New York City
Leading a transformation initiative inevitably requires contending with forces outside of one's control. Here’s how marketing leaders can better manage them
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Learn From Amazon’s Approach To Innovation
Investigate the concepts that guide Amazon’s approach to innovation. There will be elements of great relevance for your organization. You can learn from and embrace these elements to fundamentally rethink your own approach to innovation.
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Is Your IT Organization’s Operating Model A Speed Bump In Waiting?
The pandemic taught technology leaders the value of being adaptive. Learn five key design principles to make your IT operating models more adaptive.
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Balance Digital Accountability To Optimize Digital Teams
There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to digital team org structure. Instead, digital leaders should align to three critical capabilities as they build out their organizational structure.
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