Is your organization still trying to make revenue from didactic forms of education and instruction? Are you using a hierarchical, top-down, command and control delivery model? Are you providing content that seems out of context in today's every changing global market? If you are, you are showing your age. You are announcing to the world that you believe old methods succeed in today's volatile, disruptive markets. And they don't! The Three Stages Of Learning Through Time TRClark, ASTD Research, … [Read more...]
The Need For Speed And Learning Agility
Your organization's enduring competitive advantage rests on learning agility. It must be able to respond to new challenges, opportunities, threats and crisis. New, unprecedented complex challenges constantly present themselves. Learning At The Speed Of Change Experienced leaders used to claim that they had seen every problem several times in the past. That's no longer true today. To choose leadership in today's world is to choose change. Today's leaders will confront a parade of previously … [Read more...]
Four Macro Trends That Will Affect Your Organization In 2012
What's in store for your organization in 2012? Volatility, multiplicity, versatility and mobility. At least that's what Gartner's analysts say is coming in 2012. Volatility In chemistry, volatility is the measure of the tendency of a substance to vaporize. What a great analogy for today's business culture. In society, it means all the variables that can be changed by external forces. In brief, your organization will be subject to rapid or unexpected change. We will continue to see global and … [Read more...]
Your Organization Has Too Much To Do Because You Do Too Much
How can we add social media to our plates when we have so much to do? This is a common statement from nonprofit employees. They don't want another task. They already have too much to do. So how can they simplify their work? The answer is simple: You have too much to do because you do too much! Byzantine Structures And Systems Organizations and employees do too much when they work within systems that have become too complicated. Managed systems with crisp specification of roles, … [Read more...]
Six Disruptive Forces Poised To Revolutionize Nonprofit Associations
It takes courage to move out of the comfort zone! So many nonprofit associations and their boards have adopted a risk averse environment. They see little incentive to change or experiment. In the coming three to ten years, those organizations that stay the course will not succeed. Those that refuse to think differently, quickly and innovate will not survive. The traditional nonprofit approach to risk must be recalibrated to assume a level of risk tolerance. Defining A Disruptive Force What is … [Read more...]
Top Ten 2012 Strategic Technology Trends
These top ten strategic technology trends will affect your organization in 2012. Will you be prepared to take advantage of them? Gartner's analysts presented these trends at the October 2011 Symposium/ITxpo. They suggest that organization leaders should consider this list now in their strategic planning process. Defining Strategic Technology What is strategic technology? According to Gartner analysts, strategic technology is one that: Will have significant impact on the … [Read more...]
4 Top Technology Predictions That Will Affect Your Organization
These Gartner predictions highlight the trends and disruptive events that will reshape the nature of business for the next four years. They focus on changes in the role that technology plays in business performance, our personal and professional lives, and in the global economy. Gartner evaluated more than 100 predictions based on audience appeal, impact and relevance. The 2011 predictions showcase a link between technology decisions and economic and societal outcomes. Here are four top … [Read more...]
The Nonprofit Paradox: Evolve Or Expire
Two things I know for certain. Change is the constant today and continues to accelerate. Our nonprofit associations are dynamic, complex systems embedded within an even more dynamic, complex übersystem: human society. Six Changing Association Contexts Technological innovations have radically changed our übersystem, human society, in at least six ways. (Wiley, 2006). Society continues to exert increasing competitive pressure on our traditional nonprofit institutions. Evolve or expire is the … [Read more...]
