Organizational Transformation

It’s time to implement a new plan to maximize your valuable time, position yourself as both a leader and a trusted ally, use charisma as the secret formula to your business solutions, rewrite your organizational narrative, and ignite change champions to set your vision on fire. It’s time to approach even your personal life with smart strategies that have the power to transform your relationships, your family, and your future.

Today, every business is talking about digital transformation. With the acceleration of new technologies, every organization knows it must adapt to survive. But by their own admission, 70 percent of businesses are failing to transform. How can businesses break through to drive real change? The Digital Transformation Roadmap provides a practical blueprint for organizational change, illustrated with real-world case studies and step-by-step planning tools. Rogers shows every leader how to think beyond the churn of new technologies and rebuild their organization for a world of constant change.

As the chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola Consolidated, J. Frank Harrison III knows firsthand the importance of not only prioritizing culture but also living out and modeling the values that drive it. He believes every person in an organization matters and how they are led matters just as much. In The Transformation Factor: Leading Your Company for Good, for God, and for Growth, Harrison profiles his company and his own personal journey to show you the radical transformation and amazing ripple effects that come from a purpose-driven, people-focused culture.

Part memoir, part practical guide, and part leadership journey, Love as a Change Strategy takes listeners inside one company's brutally honest transformation story. Through powerful storytelling and actionable tools, the authors reveal what happens when you lead change from a place of love―not fear.

Value stream mapping - an essential but underused methodology - is a proven approach to help you visualize and resolve disconnects, redundancies, and gaps in your value delivery system. More than a tool to eliminate operational waste, value stream mapping is a highly effective means to transform leadership thinking, define strategy and priorities, and create customer-centric work flow. Business performance improvement experts Karen Martin and Mike Osterling present a practical way to deeply understand how work gets done - in any environment - and how to design improved work systems.

The modern working world doesn't leave much time for reflection. Leaders in particular are encouraged to speed ahead, make quick decisions, and seek swift solutions to any problem that may arise. However, the full-speed-ahead approach can backfire. By taking time to pause and reflect, it's possible to notice new pathways and develop innovative solutions that allow for impactful results. Executive coach Janet M. Harvey has worked with leaders and teams around the world to explore the common tensions that arise in the workplace.

In an era where artificial intelligence is reshaping industries, workforces are increasingly hybrid, and leadership challenges are more complex than ever before, how can today's leaders not just survive but thrive? The Integrated Leader provides a comprehensive roadmap for navigating the unprecedented changes facing today's organizations. Dr. Jonathan H. Westover, drawing on decades of research and real-world experience, offers practical insights that bridge theory and application for leaders at all levels. This groundbreaking work addresses the critical challenges of modern leadership: ...

The rules have changed. The digital revolution has ushered in an era of unprecedented disruption, and CIOs are now the key architects of the future. This book isn’t a simple instruction manual; it’s a guide to reimagining the role of the technology leader. How do we not just survive, but thrive in this new landscape? How can technology unlock entirely new business models? This thought-provoking exploration offers fresh perspectives, challenges the status quo, and provides inspiration from companies that are leading the way.

Value stream mapping - an essential but underused methodology - is a proven approach to help you visualize and resolve disconnects, redundancies, and gaps in your value delivery system. More than a tool to eliminate operational waste, value stream mapping is a highly effective means to transform leadership thinking, define strategy and priorities, and create customer-centric work flow. Business performance improvement experts Karen Martin and Mike Osterling present a practical way to deeply understand how work gets done - in any environment - and how to design improved work systems.

Mark Schwartz, author of leadership classics A Seat at the Table and The Art of Business Value, reveals a new (empowering) model for the often soul-shattering, frustrating, Kafkaesque nightmare we call bureaucracy. Through humor, a healthy dose of history and philosophy, and real-life examples from his days as a government bureaucrat, Schwartz shows IT leaders (and the whole of business) how to master the ways of the Monkey, the Razor, and the Sumo Wrestler to create a lean, learning, and enabling bureaucracy.

Looking to become a top change manager? Look no further than "Mastering the 14 Qualities: How to Become a Top Change Manager." Written by an experienced and expert change manager, this book is a comprehensive guide that covers everything you need to know to succeed in the field of change management. The book includes a detailed explanation of the ✓14 qualities that every top change manager should possess, as well as ✓a step-by-step guide for the change process. You will also learn about ✓major change management models and all major and important ✓tools and techniques used in the ...

This is an invaluable business manager's guide to avoiding the many pitfalls of Digital Transformation. Curated from over 80 real-world practitioners; from CEOs, Heads of Automation, CIOs, Technology Vice Presidents, Chief Digital Officers, Lean Blackbelts, Developers, Customer Success and Delivery Managers & Business Analysts - who have genuinely lived and breathed the processes and have learnt best practice. This easily digestible and accessible A to Z guide will allow you to dip in and out of the topics you need, to enable a painless and efficient Digital Transformation journey.

Your best people are quitting. Not because the work is hard—because your system makes it impossible. Marcus Chen was drowning at Complex Corp. 17 meetings every week. 312-page procedures. Projects taking months instead of days. Then he discovered Simple Co—where the same work got done 40% faster with 62% fewer meetings. This business parable reveals the 3 Laws that transform chaos into clarity: Simplify Before You Add — Cut what doesn't work before adding more Clarity Before Clever — Choose solutions people actually understand Results Before Activity — Stop measuring motion, start...

Companies, communities, and individuals fail for many reasons, but one of the most common - and easily avoidable - is the failure to reinvent. When people and organizations rest on prior successes rather than driving purposeful transformation, they discover too late that they have lost their market position altogether to competitors and external forces.

Business leaders today are struggling to manage conflicting imperatives, those of the emerging digital world and those of the bureaucratic world of the past. The act of digital transformation requires a deep change in the moral outlook and ethical assumptions of a business.

Digital technologies are disrupting organizations of every size and shape, leaving managers scrambling to find a technology fix that will help their organizations compete. This book offers managers and business leaders a guide for surviving digital disruptions - but it is not a book about technology. It is about the organizational changes required to harness the power of technology. The authors argue that digital disruption is primarily about people and that effective digital transformation involves changes to organizational dynamics and how work gets done.

Collaboration doesn’t happen by chance, it must be designed. In IT Collaboration by Design, technology and cybersecurity leader Raj Badhwar reveals how organizations can transform fragmented teams into cohesive, high-trust collaborators. Drawing from his extensive real-world experience, Badhwar introduces innovative practices like the Chessboard Mindset, The API Mindset, The Power of Synergy (1 + 1 = 11), Red Teaming Trust, Designing for Resilience, AI-Enabled Collaboration, and the Collaboration Contract - practical frameworks that align people, processes, and purpose across the ...

Transformation is hard. And most efforts fail. After thirty-five years of leading transformation efforts with multiple organizations and teams, Mamie Jones has developed a proven playbook for anyone who wants to drive dramatic change and produce extraordinary results. It’s time to take your organization or team to the next level through learning how to: Adjust your own mindset and approach to leadership so you can transform the mindset of others.

Here’s how to make purposeful system change happen! The world faces a multitude of crises that demand transformative changes in how we live and do business. Yet a core question is...how to make purposeful transformation happen? Catalyzing Transformation shows the way through innovative organizing processes that anyone can use to catalyze purposeful whole system transformational change for a better world.

A must-listen for service professionals of every level, this essential book takes the proven Lean principles of the best-selling Toyota Way series and applies them directly to the industries where quality of service is crucial for success. Jeff Liker and Karyn Ross show you how to develop Lean practices throughout your organization using the famous 4P model. Whether you are an executive, manager, consultant, or frontline worker who deals with customers every day, you'll learn how take advantage of all Lean has to offer.