If it ends up retrenching and focusing on driving transformation from within, its odds of long-term success are slim.

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These changes to how we handle performance reviews are part of the social transformation of HR, within the larger Fifth shift in how technology is fundamentally changing the way we do business.

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But if I could experience such a vast transformation in my own life, I know with certainty that everybody has within himself the power to enact his own well-balanced transformation.

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To make it useful to the rest of the world requires domain knowledge, and often a transformation that is simply nonsensical within the source domain.

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In the context of the hype, confusion and simplistic vendor models, we come across organizations that have assumed that cloud could be implemented within their existing business and IT architecture without recognizing the significant transformation that must occur before cloud benefits can be fully gained.

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So when building the business case for a sustainability project, I believe it is important to recognize its inter-connectedness with other areas within the organization and really take the time to look at the expanse of sustainability transformation opportunities that lie before us.

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Within a generation, South Asia's most effective and meritocratic civil service had overseen the transformation of Bhutan.

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This can be done within organizations or with customers, partners and communities to develop new products, teach and adapt business transformation initiatives, or even partnerships to support projects in regional, environmental and civic responsibility.

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