CEO Advisory

By now you’ve surely heard the statistics about the number of internet-connected devices expected to be in operation in the coming years. An often-cited Cisco report predicts that number will be 75 billion by 2025, stating, “IoT devices function in an entire ecosystem of technology advancements – technologies that will...

Directions are something many of us have taken for granted until mid-March when the pandemic hit.  Agency communications professionals are used to giving directions to navigate clients through strategies and programs that deliver results. Today, these directions are changing by the day, and in some cases by the minute. And...

Knowledge is firstly accumulated by creating new knowledge from organizational intellectual capital and acquiring knowledge from external environments. This knowledge exchange with external business partners develops innovative environments that can enable leaders to creating a more innovative climate in companies. This knowledge process enhances the capabilities of leaders to play...

The COVID-19 pandemic is presenting all of us with deep challenges to our habitual ways of approaching problems.  For instance, do I meet my obligations by going back to the workplace as usual or do I support my family by staying totally at home? That question parallels the work versus...

Six months ago (which now feels like six years ago), 50 Fortune 500 executives and successful entrepreneurs reported in a study that the pressures they were facing were more intense than ever. Since then, the COVID-19 crisis has intensified the volume, variety and pace of these pressures, exponentially. And, it...

Today’s landscape is starting to feel more and more like The Upside Down. From an enterprise perspective, where we once talked about how to integrate virtual workers with your brick-and-mortar staff, the opposite now proves necessary. We’ve often joked that the future is now as work teams now often include...

The COVID-19 outbreak has brought with it a host of new issues and concerns for businesses as they focus their efforts on protecting their employees, workstreams, and revenues. It is a worrying time with rapidly changing scenarios, advice, and understandably the concern for people’s wellbeing is rising. The pandemic has...

While grappling with coronavirus stress, it’s easy for your employees to feel disengaged and uninspired. Motivation can be doubly hard to find when you’ve gone from a fast-paced, tight-knit office environment to 2 p.m. Zoom meetings in which everyone’s still wearing their pajamas. Now more than ever, employees are counting...

CEOs and their leadership teams seek digital transformation and cloud adoption to compete for success in the new economy. Despite the prevailing advice and encouragement to move rapidly on transformation plans, CEOs know all too well the challenges associated with authorizing and implementing sweeping digital and cloud adoption. Organizations want to pursue digital initiatives,...

Let’s say you’re the proud new owner of a chihuahua. You go to a pet store to buy a collar, but the clerk tells you, “We only have collars in one size.” You slip the one-size-fits-all loop over your dog’s head, only to find that it’s so big, it could...