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collaborative leadership workshop
Accelinnova.com/ibmclass.html
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• Your credentials here

Your name here
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• Co-Founder, Accelinnova
• CIO and Director of Strategy, Headwaters, Inc.

Niel NICKOLAISEN
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successful business?
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sustain a competitive advantage

• Sustainable
• Competitive advantage

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consistently deliver business value
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business challenges
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deliver the right product

• Build Trust?

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in the optimal market windows
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• At the lowest cost

lowest cost
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and
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increase
productivity

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meet customers changing needs

• Protect Team Boundaries

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develop great solutions
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innovate!

• Leadership Influence

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how ?
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• leaders will need to hone their collaboration
  skills, because we will need leadership that
  pulls across systems.
• - IBM CEO Samuel J. Palmisano
  

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course objectives

• provide tools and techniques
• enabling leaders
• to improve collaborative practices
• and increase business value

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workshop agenda
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practices of collaborative leadership
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collaboration and leading
collaboration
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step up
step back
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Unleashing Innovation
creating a culture of trust

• Collaboration Process

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applying
collaborative leadership
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• decision making
• and
• business value

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considerations and risks
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problem solving
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leadership practices
applications
collaboration
decision making
considerations and risk
step up, step back
problem solving
culture of trust
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Stay Positive

• about Accelinnova

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Accelinnova leaders are practitioners who looked
for and found better ways.
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Accelinnova has successfully used their tools in
a variety of high-tech and low-tech situations
over 20 years.
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Accelinnova team consists of thought leaders in
collaboration, strategic planning, and leadership.
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Accelinnova leaders have executive and senior
leadership experience in rapid fire environments.
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the need in IBM
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software group reality
17/Apr/09
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a global team
Mid-East Coast
Upper East Coast
Sweden
Canada
Poland
China
Europe
Japan
Israel
Egypt
Taiwan
West Coast
Lower East Coast
India
Malaysia
Mid-America
Brazil
Australia
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Software Group Acquisition Milestones
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complexity

• split teams multiple locations
• multiple time zones
• interdependent products
• acquisitions
• IPMT PDT OT

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• business dynamics

innovate to differentiate
responsiveness
tighter linkage to customers
time to value
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operational dynamics

predictability of schedules
quality
better use of
resources
improve product development cycles
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collaborative leadership enables us to
foster innovation
foster innovation
deliver more value
increase productivity
unleash talent
make better decisions
empowered to solve problems
the answers are in your organization.
stand back and deliver.
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• work smart.
• lead smart.
• collaborate.

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Leadership Retreat Architecture Firm
Pain Point Opportunities it could not
pursue Wanted to unleash capacity and creativity
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Leadership Retreat What We Did
Strategic planning with executive team
Cascaded to tactical planning and
implementation with work teams
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Leadership Retreat Results
Revenues up 90 with costs only up
35 Customers notice positive difference
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Strategic Session Specialty Retailer
Pain Point 7 years of intense competition
and the associated
losses
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Strategic Session What We Did
Trained business transformation project teams on
the tools
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Strategic Session Results
Using the tools, teams accelerated turnaround
(11 months as compared to 3 years) Improved
market focus and segmentation 2 years
later, acquired largest competitor
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Problem Solving CPG Company Pain Point
Growth stunted by legacy business rules,
complex systems and ineffective processes
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• Problem Solving What We Did
• Worked with executive team to define decision
  filters
• Worked with project teams to
• align project around decision filters

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Problem Solving Results Reduced budget
and timeline by 40 Improved market focus
and operations Annual revenue growth from 7
to 22