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How to Reinvent Your Company Through Better Enterprise Risk Management Transcending “scientific management” in the Knowledge Age Enterprise reinvention and enterprise risk management have been a challenge to implement in many large organizations. The key to unlocking the potential of both is to understand and overcome why the traditional implementation approach consistently struggles. Click for more |
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Book It: Best Bets for Board Reading A Wall That Must Be Broken Through Peter Drucker warned managers, consultants, academics and government officials for decades that we were in danger. He made it clear that for the prosperity of the developed world to continue—let alone grow—we need to systematically break through the knowledge work productivity wall. We have made massive investments in technology for decades but the math ultimately doesn't work, and pushing the old scientific management system harder isn't sufficient. A better management system is required. Click for more |
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Buck the Budget Blues Getting A Better Handle On Your IT Budget Doesn’t Have To Be Mission Impossible Jack Bergstrand, CEO of Brand Velocity and author of Reinvent Your Enterprise, suggests formally linking the organization’s application architecture to its organizational structure—in other words, connecting the dots between applications and how they relate to key business and customer decision makers. This process can help IT managers determine when to discontinue less valuable systems while boosting spending on more valuable applications. Click for more |
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What We’re Reading Reinvent Your Enterprise Through Better Knowledge Work Need to remake your organization? Coca-Cola veteran and management consultant Jack Bergstrand lays out a process for enhancing knowledge worker productivity, which management guru Peter Drucker once identified as the greatest challenge of the 21st century. |
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New chapter of Drucker Society launches to mark centennial
The Drucker Society of Georgia is launching Thursday, the 100th birthday of the late management thinker Peter F. Drucker, whose namesake business school is at Claremont Graduate School. "The mission of the Georgia chapter is to improve the lives of young people in Georgia by applying Peter Drucker's principles in conjunction with Georgia educational, government, community and business leaders," according to a news release. Click for more |
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The Drucker Society of Georgia
Launches on Peter F. Drucker’s 100th Birthday
The Drucker Society of Georgia will work with leaders in Georgia education, government, community and business organizations who are committed to improving the lives of young men and women in a sustainable way. Over time, the organization plans to engage 100 leaders who can impact the lives of 1 million young men and women through institutional reinvention–using the Drucker-inspired principles and tools articulated in Reinvent Your Enterprise. Click for more |
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Review: Reinvent
Your Enterprise by Jack Bergstrand
Reinvent Your Enterprise builds upon the insights of legendary management thinker Peter F. Drucker to help individuals and organizations improve business results better and faster, by leading the next management frontier--improving knowledge work productivity. This breakthrough book is endorsed by The Drucker Institute and has been featured in BusinessWeek.com. It fuses extensive research, practical application, and a proven knowledge work productivity management system. Click for more |
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Reinvent Your Enterprise
Reinvent Your Enterprise explores the concept of knowledge work: what it is, how it differs from manual labor, and perhaps most importantly how to determine what needs to be done and when. Really, it’s all about clarity: understanding your business, your clients, and your employees. Then, using this knowledge to simplify, focus, and make use of available skills to build a better company. Click for more |
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“Tom on Leadership” Show: Personal Board of Directors Top performing leaders almost invariably have a formal or informal group of advisors and mentors, a sort of Personal Board of Directors, with whom they share their problems and from whom they seek advice and counsel. Our first guest is Jack Bergstrand, CEO of Brand Velocity and author of Reinvent Your Enterprise, endorsed by the Drucker Institute. Click for more |
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September eBriefing: Author Notes Brand Velocity, an Atlanta-based IT consulting firm to Fortune 500 companies, has opened a Western Group in Los Angeles and hired Jay Wagman to lead the Los Angeles office. Click for more |
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Jay Wagman Joins Brand Velocity as Managing Director “With a proven track record in business and technology solutions, Jay Wagman will play an important role to help clients with not only ‘what to do’ but ‘how to do it’ better and faster,” said Jack Bergstrand, CEO of Brand Velocity. Click for more |
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Jay Wagman Joins Brand Velocity as Managing Director Brand Velocity, Inc., the Atlanta-based project acceleration company, today announced that it has opened its Los Angeles office and Managing Director Jay Wagman will lead the Western Group. Wagman has more than 20 years of experience in productively applying innovative technology to increase business performance. Click for more |
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Reinventing Enterprise The hoss, the goose, and the tortoise Many organizations are going from apparent success to real failure—almost overnight—because the management practices and business model that made them successful ultimately failed them. They cut costs to improve efficiency (restructuring), but didn't change their business model to improve productivity with customers (reinvention). |
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Reinvent Your Enterprise Through Better Knowledge Work I recently read Jack Bergstrand's book “Reinvent Your Enterprise Through Better Knowledge Work”. Bergstrand is a Peter Drucker student and continues on Drucker’s path. Drucker is one of my favorite management thinkers. It is a good book. Inspired thought (and that is what makes a good book for me). |
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Brand Velocity CEO Jack Bergstrand to Offer Tips on Achieving Sustainable Enterprise Reinvention During BetterManagement Webcast The BetterManagement webcast series provides global thought leaders focused on performance management, financial management, business intelligence and IT management with a forum to discuss critical business management issues and present best practices used by some of today’s most successful companies. Click for more |
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Book Review: Reinvent Your Enterprise by Jack Bergstrand Jack Bergstrand has created quite a book in Reinvent Your Enterprise, and takes a long hard look at the economics of the information age. The concept put forward in Reinvent Your Enterprise consists of four building blocks that will enhance ‘knowledge work productivity.’ These four elements interrelate in a clear fashion, and by using them, many pitfalls can be avoided. Reinvent Your Enterprise is not your regular self help business book. This is a well researched and heavily footnoted exploration of the Knowledge-based environment that we find ourselves in today. Click for more |
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Smart Lemming Review: Bergstrand’s Reinvent Your Enterprise What are the most conducive organization structure, processes and principles that allows a company or Enterprise to be productive? Bergstrand answers this question with his book, Reinvent Your Enterprise: Through Better Knowledge Work. Building on Peter Drucker’s approach to management and knowledge workers, Reinvent Your Enterprise is Bergstrand’s doctoral work at The George Washington University, combined with his firm’s consulting clients. The result is a practical, research-based knowledge work productivity framework and process for the Knowledge Age. Click for more |
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Why IT Project Governance Is Flawed—And How to Fix It By now, it’s clear that the project management approach developed during the twentieth century for traditional projects like building roads and buildings has proven to be unsuccessful in the twenty-first century with enterprise IT project management and other projects that have high “knowledge work” components. The father of modern management, Peter F. Drucker, was the first to recognize this problem with respect to managing knowledge work and emphasized repeatedly our need to solve it. I also address this in my recent book, Reinvent Your Enterprise, a book which has been endorsed by the Drucker Institute. Click for more |
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Compensation, Brand Velocity Style: A consulting firm gets creative with pay At the IT consultancy Brand Velocity, Jack Bergstrand uses a base salary plus a point system to determine employees’ compensation. Sometimes the CEO gets less than his subordinates. Click for more |
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Brand Velocity's Knowledge-Worker Innovation Brand Velocity may well be the smartest company you've never heard of. Jack Bergstrand, who used to oversee information technology at Coca-Cola (KO), launched the consulting firm five years ago with a goal of more than just making money. He wanted to take on what Peter Drucker identified as the single greatest business challenge of our day: enhancing knowledge-worker productivity. Click for more
To see a video of Jack Bergstrand in conversation with Rick Wartzman, executive director of the Drucker Institute, click here. |
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Jack Bergstrand: Getting Business Impact of IT to Flow at Coca-Cola & At Other Companies Today, Bergstrand, who previously led The Coca-Cola Company’s global Information Technology organization, now leads Brand Velocity, a consulting firm focused on helping Fortune 500 companies improve the business impact of IT across large-scale technology projects. He says, “We help our clients rapidly identify and overcome the business issues that cause 70 percent of large technology projects to fall behind or fail completely.” In this podcast, he also provides some of the warning signs CIOs need to look for to prevent project delays. Click for more |
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Why Conventional Project Management Fails Managed well, enterprise projects can improve revenue, increase savings and produce operational benefits. However, when things go wrong, large-scale projects can cost companies millions of dollars and negatively impact their corporate brands. Until project teams evolve past the old manual work project management approach, and learn to effectively manage knowledge work components, enterprise projects will continue to exceed budgets and deadlines. |
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On-the-go execs use tech devices for business “We’re really at a time when the use of technology in personal and professional lives has converged,” says Bergstrand, CEO of Brand Velocity, Inc. and former vice president of business systems for The Coca-Cola Co. “We don’t just go to the office to use technology, and we don’t just use the phone as a phone.” Click for more |
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Weathering the Perfect Storm: How Executives and Boards Can Help Improve Large Technology Projects For too many organizations, major information technology projects turn out badly. The demand planning project that was intended to revolutionize the business, but now forecasts large overruns. The new supply chain system that was expected to reduce inventory, speed orders and satisfy customers—but instead has added operational complexity and increased customer dissatisfaction. Click for more |
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Brand Velocity Develops Strategic Profiling® Instrument to Accelerate Enterprise Projects Building upon the insights of Peter Drucker, and the upcoming book Reinvent Your Enterprise, Strategic Profiling helps individuals and teams implement and accelerate large enterprise projects. Click for more |
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The IT Productivity Paradox Despite massive investments in IT, companies have largely failed to get solid returns. Brand Velocity CEO and author Jack Bergstrand explains how executives need a different approach to better manage productivity. Click for more |
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Nation waits for first chief technology officer “Probably the greatest role of a CTO is to establish a more holistic view of government and to begin articulating the effective and efficient role of technology to build new capabilities,” said Jack Bergstrand, former vice president of business systems for The Coca-Cola Co. and now CEO of Brand Velocity Inc. Click for more |
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Brand Velocity Launches Strategic Profiling Instrument Brand Velocity, Inc., the Atlanta-based project acceleration company, announced the launch of Strategic Profiling, a knowledge work acceleration instrument. The instrument helps companies improve team productivity to achieve project goals better and faster with less risk. |
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Brand Velocity Develops Strategic Profiling® Instrument to Accelerate Enterprise Projects Brand Velocity, Inc., the Atlanta-based project acceleration company, today announced the launch of Strategic Profiling, a knowledge work acceleration instrument. Building upon the insights of Peter Drucker, and the upcoming book Reinvent Your Enterprise, Strategic Profiling helps individuals and teams implement and accelerate large enterprise projects. |
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Brand Velocity Launches Strategic Profiling Application Jack Bergstrand, CEO of Brand Velocity said, “Enterprise projects require a strong dose of knowledge work – above and beyond the technology involved. Since knowledge work is invisible and ever-changing, it is the greatest risk associated with enterprise projects.” Click for more |
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Project failure in large enterprise technology projects is unfortunately very common, but it's not inevitable - nor irreversible – if the right steps are taken. This study assesses the current state of large technology projects and offers insights of how companies can improve them.
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