PERSPECTIVES
Doing the strategy shuffle
When most of us began 2020, we had
our strategies set and improvement
plans in place. Three months into the
year, most leaders of large and small
businesses are doing some significant
strategy shuffling. While the unexpected
need to shift and the uncertain
futures are unsettling, we have to seek
strategic shifts in work system design
to help us positively leverage these
changes.
A risk-based approach to restart the economy
Governments around the world reacted
to the COVID-19 threat by imposing
strict stay-at-home regulations. While
effective in slowing the disease’s spread,
it triggered a global economic downturn,
affecting billions. As the death toll
grows, how can we manage the pandemic
while relieving economic distress?
Building supply-chain resiliency after crisis
There will be no shortage of lessons
learned once the pandemic has passed.
Judging from my inbox and newsfeeds,
many have already been learned. It goes
without saying the crisis has exposed a
lack of planning at the systems level.
Solving one problem in isolation can
be shortsighted; a basic tenet of sustainability
is that economic, social and environmental
issues are connected. Many
commentators have shown how this
framework can help us understand the
current situation.
PE offers access to multiple industries
Ben Amaba, Ph.D., PE, is global chief
technology officer, IBM Watson and
Cloud Division. We recently had the opportunity
to discuss his path to licensure
and how it has helped advance his career.