Leadership commitment is a critical success factor for any significant change. It is something that has depth and which endures.
The commitment that organisations need is difficult at an individual and an executive team level:
- Taking ownership as an executive team
- Senior executive time to provide guidance and feedback
- Being open and honest about the current state and the plans with stakeholders
- Committing time from key people in their organisations
- Giving a sense of urgency that is communicated into their organisations
- Being open to review and feedback on naive proposals from their teams
- Providing constructive suggestions to their people who are co-creating strategy
- Publicly backing their technology strategy initiative now and for the long term
- Finding the funds and other resources to deliver the strategy
- Being clear about priorities and sticking to them
- Willing to listen to the wisdom of the experts and the doers and change views when appropriate
- Eliminating their egos and political agendas
- Standing up to external pressure when it is the right thing to do even risking their jobs
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