Category: Sustainable Transformations

Articles / Banking 4.0 / Sustainable Transformations

December 15, 2024

AI Implementation: Smarter Strategies for Success

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly emerged as a game-changer, redefining how businesses operate, innovate, and grow. But success with AI doesn’t happen by chance. AI implementation demands a clear strategy, an engaged organization, and...

Articles / Sustainable Transformations

December 7, 2024

Building Resilient AI Systems with Effective AI Guardrails

Artificial intelligence is reshaping industries, transforming how businesses innovate, operate, and compete. Yet, its transformative power comes with significant risks, such as hallucinations, compliance missteps, and data vulnerabilities. While the decision to adopt AI...

Articles / Blog / Sustainable Transformations

November 18, 2024

AI Workforce and HR: Empowering Talent for Business Growth

In today’s rapidly evolving digital economy, artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a distant horizon—it is the driving force reshaping industries, redefining roles, and revolutionizing businesses. Organizations face a stark ultimatum: adapt or risk...

Digital Transformation is people-centric

Articles / Blog / Featured / Sustainable Transformations / Transformational Leadership

October 5, 2024

Beyond Tools: Elevating People to Drive Digital Transformation

NASA is synonymous with innovation, but its approach to problem-solving reveals a crucial lesson for any organization undergoing transformation. Instead of relying exclusively on internal expertise, NASA invites fresh ideas through open innovation, regularly...

Adaptability / Articles / Blog / Featured / Innovation / Sustainable Transformations

February 17, 2023

Is AI SAFe®? Strategic AI with Scaled Agile Methodology

While much of the news of AI in financial services has focused on Fintech innovation, such as I Know First (a Big Data, Self-learning Algorithm for investing), AI has been in mainstream financial institutions...

Lean Portfolio Management Strengthens the Value Chain

Adaptability / Articles / Blog / Featured / Sustainable Transformations

February 16, 2023

The What, Why, and How of Implementing Lean Portfolio Management (SAFe® )

The world is changing fast, and as it changes so do customer expectations–and as Artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) adoption increases, the changes will get faster and the expectations will be bigger!...

Kaizen and Kaikuku are not opposing philosophies at tug-a-war with each other

Blog / Sustainable Transformations / Transformational Leadership

August 12, 2019

Kaizen and Kaikaku – Win, Lose, or Win/Win?

Can opposing philosophies work together? If asked in political circles (especially in today’s world of sound bites and shouting heads) the answer is a resounding NO! One of the more famous sayings regarding opposites...

Defining transformation - evolve, change or transform

Blog / Featured / Sustainable Transformations / Transformational Leadership

June 24, 2019

Defining Transformation – Change, Evolve or Transform?

This article will be more first person than is typical for what is posted here—primarily because it requires discussion around some personal experiences. Transformation efforts have existed for years, but in the last 5...

Value Creation by turning customer service into customer sales

Blog / Featured / Sustainable Transformations

March 14, 2019

6 Ways to Turn Customer Service into Customer Sales

Utter the words customer service to sales managers and/or business owners, and you’re likely to get a scowl and some reference to it reducing net profits from revenue at little value. While this is...

Leaders and Managers need to fit together like puzzle pieces with different but complementary roles

Blog / Sustainable Transformations

January 30, 2019

How Sustainable Value Creation is Achieved through Collaborative Leaders and Managers

Synergizing the roles of leaders and managers is much like finding the puzzle pieces that fit together to deliver the entire picture. While this paper will not cover the specific puzzle pieces in the...

Blog / Sustainable Transformations

November 13, 2018

Capitalizing on Change – Principles of Successful Transformation

Abstract Change must occur, but those prepared through knowledge and adherence to key principles will find opportunity where others fail. These principles include creating a pattern for change, candid assessment, strong leadership, a focused...