An organization does not automatically become what its leaders want it to be, but rather what its tools allow, suggest, or facilitate. Indeed, when a business adopts a technology without a structured plan, it simultaneously imports a work logic designed elsewhere, by others (How management let systems do the thinking for them). Technical choices become organizational choices that no one has formulated, and while we think we are modernizing an environment, we are profoundly changing the way we work and operate, often without visibility into the possible side effects....
We believed that by making businesses more efficient, we would make them stronger, but we ended up making them indistinguishable. The same tools, the same...
For years, leaders believed that technology would help them manage their businesses more effectively. It was seen as a lever for efficiency, rigor, and...
There are words that lose their meaning through overuse, and “strategy” is one of them.
Originally, strategy was the ability to link an intention to a...