Steve Denning What is the World Agility Forum T he World Agility Forum is a conference like no other. It is a conference about re-imagining the very concept of management for the digital age. Management that was successful in the 20th century is ... Mar 23, 2023
Steve Denning How Management can advance as a Discipline Over the last two decades, the sad truth is that management has failed to advance as a discipline. Earlier articles in this series, here and here , showed how well-intended efforts to reform individua... WAF Feb 21, 2023
Steve Denning Why Agile needs to take over Management itself Let’s face it. The age of agile has not arrived. The twenty-year effort to persuade large corporations to become Agile enterprises has largely failed. We need a new approach. Instead of trying to pers... WAF Feb 21, 2023
Rita McGrath You can’t avoid the digital dimension of your business, even if you wanted to! Asking what your digital strategy is today is a lot like asking what your electricity strategy was at the turn of the last century. Seems absurd. Yet both questions reflect how a shift in an underlyin... WAF leadership May 9, 2022
Steve Denning Why The Pandemic Of Maximizing Shareholder Value Is Still Raging Figure 1: The four main types of corporate purpose Despite capitalism’s two-century track record of improving most people’s lives on every major material indicator , capitalism now faces “ a crisis of... WAF Apr 28, 2022
Steve Denning Why Stakeholder Capitalism Will Fail “We should seize this moment to ensure that stakeholder capitalism remains the new dominant model.” - Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum Stakeholder capitalism—the noti... WAF Apr 28, 2022
Steve Denning 6 Steps To Creating A Life-Inspiring Corporation The idea that serving customers might comprise an inspiring life-purpose strikes some observers as absurd. As one reader tweeted in response to one of my recent articles , “In my experience, people ne... WAF Apr 28, 2022
Steve Denning The Advent Of Narrative Economics We live in an age of competing economic narratives. After the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter of a point this afternoon, President Trump tweeted: Jay Powell and the Federal Reserve Fai... WAF Apr 28, 2022
Steve Denning What Is The Digital Age And What Does It Mean? As books like Dignity In The Digital Age (Simon Schuster) 2022) by Congressman Ro Khanna begin to appear, as talk of “the digital age” becomes commonplace, and as executives grapple with “digital disr... WAF Mar 15, 2022
Curt Carlson Work on Important Unmet Customer Needs: Not ones just interesting to you If you don’t work on important problems, you won’t achieve important results. The Need Do you work in a customer-focused enterprise? Does everyone understand the fundamentals of value creation – a cor... WAF Aug 23, 2021
Steve Denning Why Industrial-Era Companies Are Dying Why are most firms are having such problems with their digital transformations? While many have realized that their future lies in digital, most have yet to grasp that a digital transformation require... WAF Jun 30, 2021
Michael Lurie The new roles of leaders in 21st century organizations Today’s complex business environment calls for a new approach to leadership with four new roles: visionary, architect, coach and catalyst. As we’ve discussed extensively, agile organizations operate i... WAF Jun 8, 2021
