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Exploring the Scope (and Opportunities) of Digital Transformation

Mike Griffiths

Companies such as Humana (health insurance), Amgen (biotech), Automattic (web tools) are not only all-remote, digital success stories – they also run a lot of employee-led experiments. The IT group provides integration help and oversees security and risk management, perhaps stepping in to do complex work. Digital Empowerment.

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Match Your Innovation Process to the Results You Want

Harvard Business Review

We have a biotech client whose executive leadership team, starting with the CEO, demanded net present value estimates for fledgling, "beginning" ideas.and they wondered why they weren't launching any game-changing innovations. Breakthrough metrics and decision-making must be applied in totally opposite ways.

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Do Lawyers Make Better CEOs Than MBAs?

Harvard Business Review

While these explanations need not be mutually exclusive, we found that less litigation was, at least in significant part, consistent with active risk management by the CEO. When it came to risk taking and other behaviors that could generate litigation, lawyer CEOs appeared to act differently from non-lawyer CEOs.

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