Making a team high performing – i.e. high-functioning, collaborative, cohesive, aspiring, engaging – requires self-discipline, courage and stamina. Lencioni’s ‘The Five Dysfunctions of a Team’ (2002) dives into how to create a well-functioning team, and is an instrumental read in helping professional services organisations reach their full potential.
Read MoreThe conventional “convergent thinking” approach prescribes that organizations find a solution from a finite set of proven choices delivering yet another me-too solution in the name of innovation. Design Thinking on the other hand, says “find the problem and the rest will follow.”
Read MoreCarbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached its highest level in at least 800,000 years and is still increasing. Scientists agree that greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced dramatically to combat the climate change crisis. However, progress isn’t possible without significant changes to the oil and gas industry.
Read MoreBanks and the wider financial services sector are facing multiple challenges from the ongoing global impact of COVID-19.
Read MoreThis article has excerpts from a virtual chat with Mr. Jagmeet Singh, CEO, Axestrack. Axestrack is an Indian logistics business with over 110,000 commercial vehicles and a presence in more than 100 cities. Jagmeet is an automobile engineer, a Stanford business graduate, a global leader, and a tech-enthusiast. He was a partner of Cognizant’s digital business consulting, R&D engineer with Reva-India’s first electric car, and a growth leader with Infosys Consulting.
Read MoreBy now we are certain you’ve seen the many headlines about the Wirecard scandal. Over the years Wirecard had been the rising star of Germany. It had replaced Commerzbank on the Frankfurt stock exchange and, at its peak, Wirecard was valued at over EUR 24 billion. So where did it all go wrong?
Read MoreAPIs are the driving force behind digital transformation. With the emergence of PSD2, open banking APIs exposed a range of data to third-party FS solution providers including payment initiators, account aggregators, and other fintechs. Leon Muis, CBO of Yolt Technology Services (YTS), elaborates on the impact of APIs on open banking.
Read MoreOliver Schimek, CEO of CrossLend, shares his insights on how building an efficient and transparent platform to boost cross-border investment may hold solutions for the uncertainty of Europe’s economy.
Read MoreOver the past decade, there has been a wave of digital disruption with new, born-digital challengers compelling traditional incumbents to find and harness new ways of delivering great customer experiences in order to survive the new competition. While superior customer experience is an important marker of successful digital transformation for any enterprise, this approach can only be sustained if the organization’s underlying infrastructure is equipped to handle the demands of these customer-centric initiatives.
Read MoreIt took Bitcoin 12 years to grow from an underground experiment to a parallel network of cryptocurrencies that is being taken seriously by entrepreneurs, futurists, technologists and increasingly more also by regulated financial institutions and even regulators. The experiment was based on the blockchain technology.
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