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Adapting the Workforce to Gain Transient Advantage

Transient advantage strategies are a phenomenon of the 4IR and the rise of business ecosystems. These typically create new products for markets that have fewer choices come into play when the core industry is unpredictable when cheaper solutions are already in the marketplace when company stock is consistently undervalued when investments are not realizing better margins, when customers are no longer enthusiastic about the company’s products, or when the competition is emerging from other ecosystems.

These strategies support the premise that sustainable competitive advantage is now the exception, not the rule. …


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Making the Worker Central to the Organizational Ecosystem

The new organization will be a business-digital ecosystem driven by human value and purpose. This will challenge workers and leaders alike to embrace and adapt to changing structures, relationships, and expectations.

New organizational growth maps are needed and traditional jobs must shift to the nature of new work practices as business ecosystems evolve with new digital capabilities. The traits of a successful digital transformation are increased agility, innovation at scale, and levels of collaboration that become deeply embedded in the culture of the organization. Worker adoption and mastery are the keys to the ultimate success of any cognitive enterprise.


In this video, our CEO Mimi Brooks focuses on the future of jobs as we accelerate action on reskilling, upskilling, and training for the workforce of the future.

The impact of the pandemic of 2020 has been more severe than any other event in global economic history. In the words of Klaus Schwab, ‘the pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world to create a healthier, more equitable and more prosperous future’.

Along these lines, we believe that despite concerns to the contrary, technology does not have to have a net…


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The most successful businesses recognize continuous transformation, driven by digital innovation, as the new business as usual.

To thrive in the new digital economy, they are becoming digital at their core and finding new ways to help people at work leverage and grow organizational knowledge, build networks, and respond to change. They are building new platform business models, investing in cohesive experiences across their digital ecosystems, and evolving their cultures to help every employee succeed in new practices of working, learning, and innovating.

To achieve this, organizations must support and empower their workforces through digital employee experiences that encourage new ways of work and, in turn, accelerate organizational capabilities. …


In this video, our CEO Mimi Brooks focuses on the strategy and vision for a digital Employee Experience aligned to the transforming operating model of digital age businesses. With the operating model as our line of sight, we can imagine Employee and Worker Experiences and platforms that drive productivity, encourage adoption of new work practices, and invoke engagement in new purpose and culture models.

Even as contemporary businesses transform from organizational siloes and fragmented technology stacks towards horizontal, interconnected business ecosystems, so too must the Employee Experience morph. …


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The core of the 4th Industrial Revolution is a fusion of digital innovation and human interaction…

…resulting in wholesale changes to traditional business models and extraordinary organizational disruption.

The non-linear speed and magnitude of these changes will continue to intensify rapidly, as advances in areas such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Decentralized Knowledge Networks, Big Data, Machine Learning, Blockchain, and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) gather momentum.

From the outset of this latest industrial revolution, digital disruption was most rampant in companies where the product or service could be readily digitized. Those involved in media and entertainment, telecommunications, high tech, and financial services needed to reconstruct their legacy businesses in order to flourish.


In this video, our CEO Mimi Brooks focuses on the concept of organizations needing to adapt to different timescales as workers shift to more durable skills like critical thinking, creativity, and complex problem-solving, while machines solve repetitive and analytic challenges at far greater speeds than is humanly possible.

As the ‘Father of Artificial Intelligence’, John McCarthy, said over a half a century ago, “Humans and artificial intelligence must be able to integrate seamlessly”. This has never been truer than it is today.

The rise of AI and other technologies has opened a whole new world of learning. It’s not…


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It’s good news that most organizations are shifting their thinking away from the early idea that digital strategies can be found in their digital tools, products, and vendor relationships.

And while building a technology-enabled digital spine is a critical investment, it’s important to believe at this juncture that technology alone will probably be, unfortunately, the least transformative factor in new business-digital models.

Now comes the hard work.

A little less digital, a lot more ecosystem


In this video, our CEO Mimi Brooks focuses on Environmental, Social, and Governance, or ‘ESG’ Essentials. Increasingly, these are the three areas that socially conscious investors will examine before making a financial commitment to a company.

Environmental criteria, for example, consider how a company performs as a steward of nature; Social criteria examine how the organization manages relationships with employees, suppliers, customers, and the communities where it operates; while Governance deals with a company’s leadership, executive pay, internal controls, and other stakeholder rights.

ESG is the current thematic wave. It transcends industry, sector and geography. And every company is…


In this video, our CEO Mimi Brooks provides some insights into exactly what the second wave of the Fourth Industrial Revolution means, and why understanding the impact of these waves are so important for business leaders.

Even while CEOs are grappling with the ultimate leadership test during the ongoing pandemic, we’re also witnessing game-changing developments on other fronts. These stem from the continual effects of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. At the core of this revolution is the fusion of digital innovation and human interaction.

As Kevin Kelly, author, and founding executive of Wired magazine, once pointed out, “First we…

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