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Have you measured the change readiness of your staff?

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Have you measured the change readiness of your staff? If you haven’t, you should. The success of any plan to change how work gets done at your business depends upon you and your change management team having a comfortable grasp… Read more ›

September 10, 2020

Ira Michael Blonder

Culture Change

bpr, business process reengineering, change management

It pays to first carefully consider the results of acting on FOMO (fear of missing out)

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Some history of my personal experience with FOMO Back in 1994 I met with a Director of Communications for IBM Corporation. She had called me up to IBM headquarters in Armonk NY to discuss the addition of a number of… Read more ›

August 25, 2020

Ira Michael Blonder

Culture Change

automobile market, change management, electric vehicles, evs, fear of missing out, FOMO, gm, tesla

Work from home theme gets closer to the new normal

Work from home theme gets closer to the new normal. Remote work is making news According to Christopher Mims’ story “The Work-From-Home Shift Shocked Companies-Now They’re Learning Its Lessons“, published on Saturday, July 25, 2020 by the Wall Street Journal,… Read more ›

July 30, 2020

Ira Michael Blonder

Culture Change

change management, digital transformation, disruption, market disruption, work from home, working remotely

Business owners save money with a pivot to remote work

What’s the missing catalyst to transform digital transformation projects from losers to winners? Saving money. When business owners save money with a pivot to remote work the reasons to stick with the required changes become much more compelling. The pandemic… Read more ›

June 30, 2020

Ira Michael Blonder

Digital Transformation

change management, covid 19, digital transformation, management by objectives, pandemic 2020, remote work, work from home

Can your software business quickly pivot as required?

Can your software business quickly pivot as required to address market needs? If your answer is “no”, your management team needs to take the steps required to permit a “yes” answer to this question. Assume two points: 1) the market… Read more ›

June 24, 2020

Ira Michael Blonder

Culture Change

change management, covid 19, digital adoption, digital transformation, pandemic 2020, pivots, work from home

Getting Solutions Ready to Deliver Immediate Value Takes Serious Preparation

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In a recent conversation with a customer I was introduced to the notion of “immediate value” as a reason to implement a solution to enable digital transformation (DT). This customer was explaining to me why the organization had decided not… Read more ›

September 24, 2019

Ira Michael Blonder

Culture Change, Digital Transformation

business process reeingineering, change management, digital transformation, enablers

No Pain No Gain

Like other examples of achievable organizational benefits, capturing the cheese down the digital transformation (DT) tunnel for most (if not all) organizations doesn’t come easy. But few DT pioneers do the prep work required to 1) predict where/why/how pushback will… Read more ›

September 20, 2019

Ira Michael Blonder

Enterprise Business, Organizational Change

business process reengineering, change management, digital transformation, software adoption

Exploitation and Exploration – a Modern Spin on Hunters and Farmers

In their book Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator’s Dilemma, Charles A. O’Reilly (Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business) and Michael Tushman present a number of case studies of “ambidextrous” managers running organizations built… Read more ›

July 17, 2019

Ira Michael Blonder

Management, Organizational Change, recruiting executives

change management, disruption, management, organizational change, sales management

End users benefit from in-context access to tech training content when new computing platforms are implemented

Adoption initiatives accompany almost any type of platform change for enterprise computing consumers. These projects are so common a whole industry developed around them. Back in the 1990s the business was referred to as “business process re-engineering”. Today the same… Read more ›

February 4, 2015

Ira Michael Blonder

Enterprise Computing

bpr, business process reengineering, change management, computing platforms, enterprise computing, sharepoint

Apple is likely to hit serious headwinds rolling out two innovations

Update: as of Monday morning, October 27, 2014, Bloomberg reported CVS had joined Rite-Aid in nixing Apple Pay Apple doesn’t appear to have a lot of history successfully accomplishing change management campaigns, but, in this writer’s opinion, two recently debuted… Read more ›

October 27, 2014

Ira Michael Blonder

Commodities

apple, apple pay, business process reengineering, change management, ipad, iphone, reconfigurable sim card

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Have you measured the change readiness of your staff?

It pays to first carefully consider the results of acting on FOMO (fear of missing out)

Work from home theme gets closer to the new normal

Business owners save money with a pivot to remote work

Can your software business quickly pivot as required?

Getting Solutions Ready to Deliver Immediate Value Takes Serious Preparation

No Pain No Gain

Exploitation and Exploration – a Modern Spin on Hunters and Farmers

End users benefit from in-context access to tech training content when new computing platforms are implemented

Apple is likely to hit serious headwinds rolling out two innovations