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5 Skills Every Leader Needs to Succeed in the Digital World
Káganer, Evgeny; Zamora, Javier; Sieber, SandraArticle ART-2412-EInformation Technologies, Leadership and People ManagementThe growing density of our digital connections is fast redrawing the boundaries of competition and reshaping the sources of customer value. This demands that we take blended approaches, not just to our business strategies, but to our organizational structures and practices. And this requires new leadership roles and digitally minded leaders. Digital leadership is more than a job title; it's an entirely new mind-set. Based on conversations with pa...Starting at €8.20
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Driving Digital Transformation at the DBS Bank
Káganer, Evgeny; Gregory, Robert Wayne; Codrean, CatalinCase SI-195-EFinance, Information Technologies, Innovation and ChangeDBS, the largest bank in Southeast Asia, embarked on a journey of digital transformation in late 2013. In parallel with creating a new organizational unit called Digibank to spearhead the bank's expansion into new markets, the bank launched the Digital Mindset program to help change the company from within. This case, set in 2015, outlines the key moments of the transformational journey and describes the strategy taken by the new CEO to improve t...Starting at €8.20
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How Digitalization Is Changing the Way Executives Learn
Auricchio, Giuseppe; Káganer, EvgenyArticle ART-2747-EInformation Technologies, Leadership and People ManagementIn the same way that technology is facilitating entirely new experiences -- from shopping to collaborative working -- there is a growing realization that digitalization can enable a radically different way of learning with respect to executive development. To leverage this opportunity, we must move beyond merely adding an online component to traditional face-to-face learning (blended learning). Instead, we must embrace a more integrative approach...Starting at €8.20
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Converting Old Policies Into New Value
Káganer, Evgeny; Vaast, EmmanuelleArticle ART-1967-EInformation Technologies, MarketingFirms that have social media on the radar most often use formal policies to guide their use in the workplace. This article is based on a study of 40 companies from a variety of industries, sectors and geographies, analyzing comprehensive policy documents that cover a wide range of social media tools and uses. The authors identify 18 recurring policy themes, which can be classified into three general categories: those dealing with risk mitigation;...Starting at €8.20
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crowdSPRING: "Design the Future" Competition
Káganer, Evgeny; Zamora, Javier; Oré, CarlosCase SI-180-EInformation TechnologiesThe co-founders and managing partners of crowdSPRING, a global marketplace for crowdsourced creative services located in Chicago, IL, were discussing the pipeline of ongoing projects. The development team was working at full capacity, on track for an on-time release of a set of new features and upgrades for the site. This was business as usual. There was, however, a non-trivial decision that Kimbarovsky and Samson needed to make. LG Electronics, ...Starting at €8.20
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Vueling's Mobile Strategy Takes Flight
Zamora, Javier; Káganer, Evgeny; Tatarinov, Katherine; Oré, AndreuCase SI-193-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, StrategyVueling Airlines announced in 2014 that a larger percentage of its IT budget would be spent on mobile applications than on the website. However, the revenue from mobile remained relatively small compared with that from the Web. In designing Vueling's future mobile strategy, the IT and online marketing managers face the dilemma of whether to prioritize sales or customer experience.Starting at €8.20
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Transforming Government Through Holacracy
Wong Ellinger, Eleunthia; Gregory, Robert Wayne; Káganer, EvgenyCase SI-205-EInformation TechnologiesCompanies are experimenting with novel forms of organization that distribute power to all workers and decrease or remove the role entirely of the traditional manager. These radical transformations in organization are attempted in order to recruit and retain skilled workers as well as innovate in products and services, Holacracy is one such system and is used by more than 1,000 companies across the world, including mid-size to large companies in t...Starting at €8.20
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How to Overcome Resistance and Get Commitment From Users
Pérez Balaguer, Jesús; Gregory, Robert Wayne; Káganer, EvgenyTechnical Note SIN-54-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and ChangeIf we consider the broad spectrum of changes that occur in organizations, it is apparent that in many cases, either directly or indirectly, technology is a very important factor to take into account and can even be the driver of change. But most people fear change and some have a deep aversion to it. In this document, we look at the reasons why employees resist the adoption and use of new technologies. We also offer a framework for managing chang...Starting at €8.20
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Hypothesis-Driven Experimentation
Röthke, Claudia; Gregory, Robert Wayne; Káganer, EvgenyTechnical Note SIN-57-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and ChangeWhen addressing customer needs through new offerings, it is essential to carry out hypothesis-driven experimentation and develop the kind of products that consumers really want. Often what you think customers want diverges substantially from what customers actually want. This technical note introduces and explains the essentials of hypothesis-driven experimentation, which is predicated on the idea of systematically and iteratively reducing uncert...Starting at €8.20
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Building a Unified Collaboration Strategy at Genpact: SolutionXchange and Beyond
Káganer, Evgeny; Carmel, Erran; Tatarinov, KatherineCase SI-190-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, Knowledge and CommunicationGenpact launched SolutionXchange with the goal of bringing together clients and industry experts to collaborate in solving business process management (BPM) challenges. To date, the initiative has been a success - helping solve more than 200 BPM-related challenges. Genpact is committed to taking SolutionXchange (SCx) to the next level and expanding its scale significantly to become a global BPM community of choice for experts and clients to share...Starting at €8.20