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Digital Enterprise Society Podcast


Jul 10, 2019

Digital Enterprise Society is the authority on the transformation to a digital enterprise, impacting all areas of an organization. Tune in for discussion among industry leaders about operations and action needed to drive digitization principles forward for the future of product development and life cycles.

 

On this episode of the Digital Enterprise Society podcast Thom Singer and previous guest Nathan Hartman welcome Scott Hutcheson, faculty member at Purdue University and associate director of Purdue’s Agile Strategy Lab.  They have come together to discuss agile strategies, distributive collaboration, and the organizational and human aspects that surround the selection and implementation and use of technologies, as well as the challenges and opportunities that lie in recognizing and understanding the importance of how people interface with the technologies of a company.  They examine the differences between and benefits of organizational hierarchies and networks, how organizations can better navigate the digital transformation, and share what every listener can do to implement this information and benefit the future of their career.

 

On today’s podcast you will learn:

 

Organizational transformation in high technology organizations

 

Overcoming challenges in an agile strategy perspective

  • ● How to help employees feel like new strategies aren’t being forced upon them.
  • ● Balancing strong leadership with widespread engagement
  • ● Encouraging ownership of new technologies will result in higher levels of engagement and adoption.
  • Hierarchies or networks — which structure works best?
  • ● Recognize if a hierarchy or network is the best fit for each function.
  • ● Use the appropriate tools, disciplines and approaches for each.
  • ● Any strategic transformation is best done in a flatter organizational structure.
  • The 10 rules of a complex collaboration
  • ● Identifying and understanding the rules that govern the organizational behavior of workplace ecosystems.
  • ● Question number one — framing questions around appreciative questions.
  • ● Refocusing to outward rather than inward
  • Agile strategy and navigating digital transformation