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In the digital world, finding the right answers is about asking the right questions

How good is your company at asking the right questions before looking for the right answers? In his book, The Book of Beautiful Questions, author Warren Burger makes his case for the power and value of good questions. “Having strong questioning skills has always been important. But in a time of exponential change, it’s a twenty-first century survival skill.” The speed and diversity of disruptive digital technologies has proven…

In the digital world, you can’t win the war for customers if you can’t win the war for talent

The Digital Skills Gap: Is your talent keeping up with you technology? One of the biggest challenges leaders face from unprecedented waves of new digital technology disruption is to accurately assess what are the new and ever-changing skills and capabilities their companies need to successfully compete as a digital enterprise.

In the digital world, success requires turning your business model into a competitive advantage

Is your business model a competitive advantage or a competitive liability? In a recent McKinsey Global Survey of 2,190 companies, two thirds of those companies in pursuit of transforming their businesses said that they were “just treading water, taking no decisive action, and consequently achieving little or no success.”