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A new business model dispenses with the fads that failed large, incumbent companies—and helps leaders effectively harness new capabilities. In the last 30 years, leaders of legacy businesses and Non-profits alike have been encouraged to run their organizations like Lean, agile start-ups. They embraced the trends that promised success—digital transformation! Sense and respond! Design thinking discovered they all fell short when applied at scale to large, incumbent organizations. In the live enterprise, authors Jeff kavanaugh and Rafe tarafdar show why these approaches don’t work for larger companies offer a clear path forward for executives, managers and professionals looking to transform legacy systems into agile, digital ecosystems that can evolve with changing market needs and scale to any size. The operating model they describe, live enterprise, builds on the positives of the start-up operating model but goes further, addressing such issues as responsive value chains, intuitive decision-making capabilities, hybrid talent (employees + machines + gig economy) and more. Ground-breaking in theory and long-term strategy, the live enterprise also includes practical steps any company leader can follow now—for immediate results—while laying the groundwork to operate with agility in the future.
Jeff Kavanaugh is Vice President and Global Head of the Infosys Knowledge Institute, the research and thought leadership arm of tech services leader Infosys. He also serves as an adjunct professor at the Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. In 2018, he launched the Knowledge Institute, an award-winning team of producers, editors, journalists, and analysts, that reaches a large global audience. Jeff is the author of the book Consulting Essentials: The Art & Science of People, Facts, and Frameworks and has been published in Harvard Business Review and other leading periodicals. Jeff has presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos and the United Nations and is a regular speaker and chair at conferences in the US and Europe. He also serves as an advisor to the United Nations, universities, and early stage companies. He lives in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. Rafee Tarafdar is CTO-Strategic Technology Group at Infosys. Over 22+ years of his career, he has worked with hundreds of Fortune 500 enterprises and their leaders across the globe, helping them transform from traditional brick and mortar businesses to operate like digital natives that are continuously evolving and learning. He founded and incubated the Strategic Technology Group, comprising power programmers and chief architects who are spearheading the digital transformation for Infosys clients. At Infosys, over the last 3 years he has been driving Infosys's own transformation to be a Live Enterprise, and he is now working with their strategic clients to help them transform to be a Live Enterprise. He is a regular speaker and writer on digital transformation and modernization. He lives in Bangalore, India.
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