change – elemental links

Link: disrupt thyself

October 13, 2013 By brenda michelson

“Success in self-disruption requires at least the following six elements:

1. An autonomous business unit. The unit should have all the functional skills it needs to succeed, freeing it from reliance on the parent organization, and it must not report to the business or businesses that are being disrupted.

2. Leaders who come from the relevant “schools of experience.” These leaders have addressed a variety of challenges, especially in the kinds of problems the new growth business will face. They are often necessarily sourced from outside the organization” …

source link: bmichelson on tumblr excerpting HBR article on Disrupting Consulting
via Diigo

Additional disruption of consulting in Scott Berkun’s Consultants Should All Get Real Jobs

Don’t fret being misunderstood, Bezos on change via my Tumblr

October 2, 2013 By brenda michelson

Bezos has a different view — a long view. “Everything we’ve ever done people have said this. People said customer reviews were a bad idea, third-party selling is a bad idea, personalization is a bad idea,” and he does have a point. “In 1994, typing your credit card [info] on the internet is a bad idea. Every single thing that’s new is a bad idea.” And then Bezos repeats one his best rehearsed and most convincing soundbites. “Willingness to be misunderstood is one of our greatest strengths.”

via Tumblr http://bmichelson.tumblr.com/post/62900280822

On change, via my Tumblr

September 18, 2013 By brenda michelson

“change is predictable, though its outcomes are not”

– Think Like a Futurist: Know What Changes, What Doesn’t, and What’s Next by Cecily Sommers
via Tumblr http://bmichelson.tumblr.com/post/61597284688

Management, change and big data — active information

October 1, 2012 By brenda michelson

In my most recent active information post, I highlight management implications of effective big data usage, as articulated in HBR article by McAfee and Brynjolfsson.

An excerpt:

As investment in data analysis small, big, fast is worthless without a willingness to act, Im choosing to highlight McAfee and Brynjolfsson’s submission on Big Data: The Management Revolution.

After setting a context on Big Data volume, velocity, variety and showcasing tangible business results of Big Data PASSURs RightETA and Sears Holdings, McAfee and Brynjolfsson get to the heart of the matter:

“The technical challenges of using big data are very real. But the managerial challenges are even greater—starting with the role of the senior executive team.”

“One of the most critical aspects of big data is its impact on how decisions are made and who gets to make them.”

read the full post: Management in the Big Data era: Rethink or be Repl… – Input Output.

Visibility, Context, Correctness & Responsiveness — active information meets change-friendly

July 26, 2012 By brenda michelson

This week on active information, I offer some observations on the Pew Big Data report in the context of one of my top projects: evolving business-technology architecture and practices to accommodate continuous change. (a.k.a. change-friendly)

My change-friendly tenets:

You can’t change what you can’t see (Visibility)
Context is king (Context)
Not every change is the right change (Correctness)
Delay is the enemy of change (Responsiveness)

The post teaser: “Big data ushers in a new era of visibility, for good and evil. But, visibility without timely, intended action, isnt all that big.”

The post: Visibility, Context, Correctness & Responsiveness … – Input Output.

Brenda M. Michelson

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