A how-do-do-it Compass for business leaders, executives and managers"for-profit and non-profit organizations, large and small. Filled with lessons that provide education, training and tools to support change and progress"it will enable you to create the type of entity you truly desire, and reduce time and costs in making your Exceptional Organization viable, sustainable, and valued.Filled with inspiring essays and stories designed to challenge the reader's outlook"when the techniques in this guidebook are applied to your enterprise, your members and employees will benefit by having a shared vision and understanding of current reality, along with a set of common beliefs, values, and a language for interaction at all levels.
Providing a foundation for enterprise architects on the principles of service-oriented architecture, this text offers guidance on how to begin transitioning an IT infrastructure toward the SOA model, an operation tightly integrated into business processes and operations.
Are you ready to lead your team with confidence, empathy, and peace of mind? The CEO's Compass helps you systematically identify your team's current blindspots and determine seven key areas you need to focus on to get back on track in days - not months. A recent study showed nearly 60% of leaders feel depleted at the end of day. This feeling is a key indicator of burnout and makes it difficult to lead and inspire others. If you've ever experienced that restless exhaustion, you know why CEOs are among the most likely candidates for experiencing job frustration and burnout. The CEO's Compass is your guide to confronting these feelings and creating a plan that is sustainable for you and your organization. Deborah A. Coviello has spent decades utilizing her skills as an engineer and STEM professional to assess and solve problems in the flavors and fragrance industries. Deborah climbed the ranks of several organizations, transforming people and production processes alike. It was in one of those leadership roles she realized that the same process used to master Quality and Operational Excellence on the production floor could be transferred into the boardroom, helping C-Suite leaders put the right people in the right roles for optimal performance. It was that same process that inspired The CEO's Compass, and now she's sharing it with you. In this book you will find: ●The real reason you're feeling off track... and no, it has nothing to do with your expertise! ●A seven-point assessment you can use to find the problem in days...not months! ●Actionable steps to complete your assessment with worksheets, videos, and more ●Real-world examples of how this process has transformed organizations from production lines to leadership teams ●Why your peace of mind is critical for the success of you and your organization It's time to change the way you think about leadership, starting with the way you assess your team. Let's get back on track together.
An essential guide to thinking strategically in a complex, ever-changing world. From Seth Godin, one of the world's most influential business thinkers and bestselling author of This is Marketing, comes a groundbreaking guide to creating meaningful change in a complex world. Are you tired of quick fixes and short-term thinking? Do you want to make a lasting impact but feel stuck in outdated systems? This is Strategy is a modern classic – a must-read for anyone seeking to drive positive change, whether you’re revolutionizing an industry, sparking a movement, or building a career. Godin challenges you to: - Identify your "smallest viable audience" and make remarkable work they can't ignore - Understand and influence the systems shaping our world - Prioritize long-term thinking over instant gratification - Make smart, purposeful choices that shape a better tomorrow With Godin's trademark clarity and insight, This is Strategy provides a framework for effective and elegant strategic thinking, offering essential building blocks to turn vision into reality. It’s a rallying cry for doing work that matters. Whether you're an entrepreneur, a leader, or an individual with big dreams, this book will inspire you to think bigger, act bolder and make a difference. Strategy turns our effort into impact. Your journey starts here
Strategy is vital to effective and efficient public service delivery as well as successful governance and leadership. This new text provides a concise yet systematic overview of the achievements, downfalls and complexities of public strategy in today's globalized and often market-driven world. It describes the place of strategy in civic societies whose citizens are more interconnected and vocal than ever. It shows that successful strategic planning goes well beyond problem-solving to developing adaptable plans that can evolve as requirements and circumstances change. And it explains why muddling through simply won't work. Emphasizing the importance of applying a variety of techniques to the process of strategy-creation, Rethinking Public Strategy reassesses the key factors that can deliver significant improvements in public services and build public value. It looks at why public strategy is distinctive, as well as the principles it has in common with the corporate domain. This text includes numerous case studies from around the globe – from South Africa to Singapore, the USA to Germany, and from China to the Czech Republic – that ground the exposition in real experience. Based on state-of-the-art research by two expert practitioners in the field, it offers an essential guide to the art of strategy in the contemporary public sector, and encourages readers to evaluate critically the various approaches to strategy.
A dynamic new way to understand intuition, already implemented around the world at top companies and business schools Neuroscience shows that instinct has a leading role in complex decision-making, yet imaginative play is the most direct means of activating our creativity and problem-solving abilities. Based on over 20 years of Cholle's wide-ranging professional experience and insights, The Intuitive Compass offers a fascinating new approach to innovative problem-solving, decision-making, and sustainable value creation. Through a concept known as Intuitive Intelligence, Cholle shows how anyone can improve creative brainpower by harnessing the balance between reason and instinct. Explores the tension between linear efficiency and random play, and the synergy between reason and instinct Helps us realize our natural tendencies to think holistically, think paradoxically, notice the unusual, or lead by influence Shows these tenets in action through case studies of the luxury house Hermes, Paris; Google and its paradoxical work culture; Virgin America, and its ability to notice the unusual about what matters for consumers and exert leadership in its industry The Intuitive Compass shows how to thrive within chaos and offers actionable information for reinventing our path to sustainable success.
Todd Fitzgerald, co-author of the ground-breaking (ISC)2 CISO Leadership: Essential Principles for Success, Information Security Governance Simplified: From the Boardroom to the Keyboard, co-author for the E-C Council CISO Body of Knowledge, and contributor to many others including Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CISSP CBK, COBIT 5 for Information Security, and ISACA CSX Cybersecurity Fundamental Certification, is back with this new book incorporating practical experience in leading, building, and sustaining an information security/cybersecurity program. CISO COMPASS includes personal, pragmatic perspectives and lessons learned of over 75 award-winning CISOs, security leaders, professional association leaders, and cybersecurity standard setters who have fought the tough battle. Todd has also, for the first time, adapted the McKinsey 7S framework (strategy, structure, systems, shared values, staff, skills and style) for organizational effectiveness to the practice of leading cybersecurity to structure the content to ensure comprehensive coverage by the CISO and security leaders to key issues impacting the delivery of the cybersecurity strategy and demonstrate to the Board of Directors due diligence. The insights will assist the security leader to create programs appreciated and supported by the organization, capable of industry/ peer award-winning recognition, enhance cybersecurity maturity, gain confidence by senior management, and avoid pitfalls. The book is a comprehensive, soup-to-nuts book enabling security leaders to effectively protect information assets and build award-winning programs by covering topics such as developing cybersecurity strategy, emerging trends and technologies, cybersecurity organization structure and reporting models, leveraging current incidents, security control frameworks, risk management, laws and regulations, data protection and privacy, meaningful policies and procedures, multi-generational workforce team dynamics, soft skills, and communicating with the Board of Directors and executive management. The book is valuable to current and future security leaders as a valuable resource and an integral part of any college program for information/ cybersecurity.
During the past two or three decades, research in cognitive science and psychology has yielded an improved understanding of the fundamental psychological nature of knowledge and cognitive skills that psychological testing attempts to measure. These theories have reached sufficient maturity, making it reasonable to look upon them to provide a sound theoretical foundation for assessment, particulary for the content of assessments. This fact, combined with much discontentedness over current testing practices, has inspired efforts to bring testing and cognitive theory together to create a new theoretical framework for psychological testing -- a framework developed for diagnosing learners' differences rather than for ranking learners based on their differences. This volume presents some initial accomplishments in the effort to bring testing and cognitive theory together. Contributors originate from both of the relevant research communities -- cognitive research and psychometric theory. Some represent collaborations between representatives of the two communities; others are efforts to reach out in the direction of the other community. Taking fundamentally different forms, psychometric test theory assumes that knowledge can be represented in terms of one or at most a few dimensions, whereas modern cognitive theory typically represents knowledge in networks -- either networks of conceptual relationships or the transition networks of production systems. Cognitively diagnostic assessment is a new enterprise and it is evident that many challenging problems remain to be addressed. Still, it is already possible to develop highly productive interactions between assessment and instruction in both automated tutoring systems and more conventional classrooms. The editors hope that the chapters presented here show how the reform of assessment can take a rigorous path.
Shift your business model and transform your organization in the face of disruption Business Model Shifts is co-authored by Patrick van Der Pijl, producer of the global bestseller Business Model Generation, and offers a groundbreaking look at the challenging times in which we live, and the real-world solutions needed to conquer the obstacles organizations must now face. Business Model Shifts is a visually stunning guide that examines six fundamental disruptions happening now and spotlights the opportunities that they present: The Services Shift: the move from products to services The Stakeholder Shift: the move from an exclusive shareholder orientation to creating value for all stakeholders, including employees and society The Digital Shift: the move from traditional business operations to 24/7 connection to customers and their needs The Platform Shift: the move from trying to serve everyone, to connecting people who can exchange value on a proprietary platform The Exponential Shift: the move from seeking incremental growth to an exponential mindset that seeks 10x growth The Circular Shift: the move from take-make-dispose towards restorative, regenerative, and circular value creation Filled with case studies, stories, and in-depth analysis based on the work of hundreds of the world’s largest and most intriguing organizations, Business Model Shifts details how these organizations created their own business model shifts in order to create more customer value, and ultimately, a stronger, more competitive business. Whether you’re looking for ways to redesign your business due to the latest needs of the marketplace, launching a new product or service, or simply creating more lasting value for your customers, Business Model Shifts is the essential book that will change the way you think about your business and its future.
