Tag: Governance

  • Four Dimensions of Sustaining Change Leadership

    One of the paradoxes of strategic change is that the most important things are often the easiest to defer for matters that are more pressing but have less impact on success.  Sponsorship, engagement, and accountability are the greatest drivers of lasting and meaningful change.  However, the activities that sustain ownership, such as communication, governance, and…

  • A Key Data & Analytics Challenge – Agility vs. Control

    Only a small percentage of potential analytics users have any meaningful access to data. In addition, many data and analytics initiatives fail to deliver the business goals originally set. Knowledge workers spend too much time looking for and manipulating data, and not enough time analyzing information. IT is kept busy with growing demands for data…

  • The Cost of Program Failure

    The statistics on business transformation failure are overwhelming.  Particularly where technology implementation is involved, and where the stakes may be highest, studies consistently report that over half (and up to almost three quarters) of all programs do not deliver the intended value.  For example, Michael Krigsman examined several analyst reports of the rates of failure…