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Reports Blockchain and The Chief Strategy Officer
This research details how blockchain technology supports strategy design and delivery in innovative enterprises.
Reports Blockchain and The Project Management Office
Research shows that while most executives understand the potential of blockchain to inform strategy and minimize decision-making biases of the boardroom and C-suite, not many have made significant progress.
Reports Testing Organizational Boundaries to Improve Strategy Execution
Culture beats structure. To discover how organizations can change how they work and optimize their strategic execution, Harvard Business Review Analytic Services surveyed 1,636 executives worldwide. Read the findings.
Reports Building a Framework For Blockchain Adoption – What CEOs Should Know
In this white paper the author lays out what CEOs should know to design strategy for commercializing this new disruptive technology. That’s what he did in the mid-late 1990s for Lou Gerstner, then CEO of IBM, when IBM was sizing up its...
Reports The Convergence of Big Data and Blockchain – Disrupting the Business of Data Analytics
This white paper explores how distributed ledgers will change business models dependent on free big data. Distributed ledger technology will enable instant payment networks, loyalty schemes, aggregated metadata, multi-jurisdiction...
Reports The Nine Disruptions – Why We Need a New Social Contract for the Digital Economy
This white paper describes nine disruptions to our global economy and society, driven by the technological explosion of the fourth industrial revolution, the globalization of the factors of production, the demographic paradoxes of skilled...
Articles Avoiding strategic surprises: beware of the lurkers!
The most challenging surprises in strategic projects are those that have been hiding in plain sight from the beginning.
Articles Paul Polman: A sustainable leader making global changes
Former chief executive officer (CEO) of Unilever, Paul Polman, shows us how global change must originate from leaders of large organizations.
Articles Brightline: employee engagement is key to delivering a successful transformation
Many organisations are sceptical of business transformation, perhaps as a result of having tried and failed in the past. With Brightline’s support, however, businesses can follow a clear process that guarantees results
Articles Research Highlight – Workshops on better managing surprises in strategy implementation
Brightline and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) are currently working with teams of senior managers to fine-tune and validate a set of workshop tools that allows strategy professionals to understand how their organization manages...
Articles Making Failure Work
For all organisations and managers failure is a recurring reality. But despite failure being all pervasive, few individuals or organisations respond positively. Making failure work productively requires managers to recognise that plans need...
Articles Surprise: leveraging the unexpected in strategy implementation
We love to emphasise the importance of details in strategy planning. This leads to a false confidence that all we need to do is “push the button” and lean back to watch our strategy implementation unfold.
Videos Why Every Transformation Journey needs the Brightline Transformation Compass
Winning companies and their CEOs can navigate change, empowering their people to make quantum leaps in ability and performance. Transforming their companies is one of the top concerns for any CEO.
Videos The Transformation Imperative Livestream
Watch The Transformation Imperative Livestream. At the World Economic Forum at Davos on 21 January 2020, Brightline Initiative together with Boston Consulting Group and the Project Management Institute supported The Transformation...
Videos Transforming Ideas to Results in Government
In this interview at the Websummit 2018, Minister James talks about the importance of transforming ideas into reality in the government.
Videos How InSTEDD Transformed the Way We Manage Pandemics
InSTEDD is a nonprofit founded with an ambitious vision: to create a global alarm system for pandemics.
Videos TED & Brightline present: How to transform bold ideas into impactful results
At TED 2018, Brightline Initiative asked leaders “How do you take a bold idea and make it a reality?"
Videos Brightline at Davos WEF 19 – Interview with Ricardo Vargas, executive director, Brightline Initiative
Ricardo Vargas, executive director, Brightline Initiative: "People and technology must work together to frame the future"