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The Change Manager's toolbox
If you want to successfully lead your organization through a radical change, you need not only a clear vision but also the right management tools: practical techniques that help you to (re)direct, influence, get people into action or get them excited. Participate in this free webinar and discover 80 tools that every change manager needs to have at his or her disposal.
Driving strategic alignment and collaborative innovation with the Smart Port Maturity Model: The Port of Moerdijk case
Industry 4.0 is advancing the adoption of radically new technologies, business models and profit pools across industries. For logistics, securing a share of these new profit pools will be crucial, as its commoditized business is under pressure from increasing price competition and new entry from e-commerce giants. Consolidation in the middle of the chain has extended the lifespan of the old transactional business models for the large players, while it threatens the profit potential for 99% of the actors in the chain.
Sara Fernández Martín
Thomas Marynissen
Stephanie Dresen
Structural commitment to flexible talent
Organizations today must look for talent in a tight labor market. In June 2021, the VDAB received a record number of job openings: 33,760. That's more than twice as many as in June 2020 and 2019. The increase is greatest for jobs with experience, permanent contracts and highly skilled workers. With the outflow of a large generation of baby boomers, tightness in the labor market will only increase in the coming years. At the same time, in the first half of this year, more than 60,000 start-ups are already taking the plunge into entrepreneurship. A quarter more than last year, despite the corona crisis and despite all the corona restrictions that were also in effect for much of 2021. A significant number of those startups are freelancers.
The evolving role of the CISO in the public sector
Over the last seven years, the role of Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has gained significant importance within local governments, because local governments that want to be in line with the Baseline Information Security Government urgently need such a CISO. About 50% of the job vacancies on LinkedIn are meant for local governments. But the role of CISO has drastically changed in recent years. The latest figures indicate that an astonishing 22% of the IT budget is allocated to cyber and information security. Our own experience is that dialogues with C-level executives nowadays revolve around questions such as: Are we doing the right thing, and are we doing this right? How do we measure and monitor our return on security investments (ROSI)? And where do we get the ‘biggest bang for the buck’?