Kienbaum Consultants International introduces its 2016 updated study about the Executive Leadership Competency Models of the future: Next Generations CEOs.
Foreseeing what leaders will look like in the next decades
and the Leadership skills required at the top.
“New Leadership” profiles are and will increasingly be dictated by the Digital surge.
Quels dirigeants pour répondre aux défis de la transformation numérique ?
C’est désormais la direction générale qui doit avoir une vue claire des enjeux de la transformation numérique, ses modalités et ses conséquences pour prendre les décisions pertinentes. Cela implique une évolution majeure de leurs compétences, de leur vision même de la gouvernance de l’entreprise mais aussi de leur manière de décider.
Kienbaum a mené une étude auprès de plus de 100 dirigeants français issus d’industries différentes pour évaluer transversalement les nouveaux critères prévalant dans la recherche de dirigeants à l’heure de la transformation numérique.
Première conclusion : Le digital est un challenge avant tout humain. A l’ère de la transformation digitale, le bagage académique et le parcours professionnel comptent moins qu’un certain nombre de qualités « entrepreneuriales », notamment dans la prise de décision. Les critères qui désormais arrivent en premier rang sont nettement d’ordre comportemental et relèvent du capital humain. Le dirigeant à l’ère digitale présente des qualités spécifiques : « Preneur de risque, audacieux », « orienté client », « Ouvert, à l’écoute, humble et auto-apprenant », « Personnalité inspirante et fédératrice »
Le digital et l’innovation touchant directement au business model de l’entreprise, il y a un appel et une nécessité claire d’une volonté infaillible au plus haut niveau de l’entreprise.
Deuxième conclusion : Le changement est au cœur de la transformation digitale. C’est pourquoi les profils recherchés sont avant tout des profils vecteurs de changement. L’initiation, l’accompagnement et l’itération du changement sont les vrais moteurs en termes de discipline de cette transition/révolution numérique.
Troisième conclusion : Les compétences techniques ne sont pas premières. Les compétences ou traits de leadership primordiaux dans cet environnement de changement appartiennent plutôt à la famille des "soft skills" ou aptitudes interpersonnelles.
Quatrième conclusion : émergence d’un « leadership digital ». En phase avec ce que pense le marché aujourd’hui et ce qu’il attendra de ses leaders dans un avenir proche, Kienbaum a dégagé 4 dimensions de leadership qui semblent régir les enjeux des entreprises et des CEO dans ce nouveau paradigme digital.
Si les premières dimensions « réflexion stratégique & exécution » et « leadership & vision » sont les fondamentaux d’hier et d’aujourd’hui du profil type du leader recherché, l’association des dimensions « orientation humaine » et « conscience de soi & remise en cause » au même niveau de considération et d’impératif représentent une évolution qui redéfinit les exigences et attentes au plus haut niveau.
Ces conclusions réorientent de manière significative la recherche des leaders d’entreprise de demain.
Innovation and digital disruption in professional servicesTapmint
This is a presentation for http://tapmint.com which I gave internally at one of the world's largest professional services firms. It discusses digital disruption in financial services, professional services and accounting services.
Various models of corporate innovation are also highlighted. Case studies of 3 companies are provided - Suncorp Group, Sensis and Carsales. Finally, I provide some thoughts on implementation.
Issue 24 of Deloitte Review:
- Accelerating digital transformation in banking
- Social capital: Measuring the community impact of corporate spending
- How leaders are navigating the Fourth Industrial Revolution
- The Industry 4.0 paradox
- Tax governance in the world of Industry 4.0
- Regulating the future of mobility
- Picturing how advanced technologies are reshaping mobility
- To live and drive in LA
- What is work?
- Superminds: How humans and machines can work together
- Are you having fun yet?
- Engaging workers like consumers
- How the financial crisis reshaped the world’s workforce
Digital technologies have emerged as disruptive forces within corporations across all industries. These fundamental changes require a new type of leadership that will enable innovation and transformation to fully embraced. Truly digital leaders hold the key. Digital leaders in modern corporations include the CIO, CTO, CDO, and CMO.
Quels dirigeants pour répondre aux défis de la transformation numérique ?
C’est désormais la direction générale qui doit avoir une vue claire des enjeux de la transformation numérique, ses modalités et ses conséquences pour prendre les décisions pertinentes. Cela implique une évolution majeure de leurs compétences, de leur vision même de la gouvernance de l’entreprise mais aussi de leur manière de décider.
Kienbaum a mené une étude auprès de plus de 100 dirigeants français issus d’industries différentes pour évaluer transversalement les nouveaux critères prévalant dans la recherche de dirigeants à l’heure de la transformation numérique.
Première conclusion : Le digital est un challenge avant tout humain. A l’ère de la transformation digitale, le bagage académique et le parcours professionnel comptent moins qu’un certain nombre de qualités « entrepreneuriales », notamment dans la prise de décision. Les critères qui désormais arrivent en premier rang sont nettement d’ordre comportemental et relèvent du capital humain. Le dirigeant à l’ère digitale présente des qualités spécifiques : « Preneur de risque, audacieux », « orienté client », « Ouvert, à l’écoute, humble et auto-apprenant », « Personnalité inspirante et fédératrice »
Le digital et l’innovation touchant directement au business model de l’entreprise, il y a un appel et une nécessité claire d’une volonté infaillible au plus haut niveau de l’entreprise.
Deuxième conclusion : Le changement est au cœur de la transformation digitale. C’est pourquoi les profils recherchés sont avant tout des profils vecteurs de changement. L’initiation, l’accompagnement et l’itération du changement sont les vrais moteurs en termes de discipline de cette transition/révolution numérique.
Troisième conclusion : Les compétences techniques ne sont pas premières. Les compétences ou traits de leadership primordiaux dans cet environnement de changement appartiennent plutôt à la famille des "soft skills" ou aptitudes interpersonnelles.
Quatrième conclusion : émergence d’un « leadership digital ». En phase avec ce que pense le marché aujourd’hui et ce qu’il attendra de ses leaders dans un avenir proche, Kienbaum a dégagé 4 dimensions de leadership qui semblent régir les enjeux des entreprises et des CEO dans ce nouveau paradigme digital.
Si les premières dimensions « réflexion stratégique & exécution » et « leadership & vision » sont les fondamentaux d’hier et d’aujourd’hui du profil type du leader recherché, l’association des dimensions « orientation humaine » et « conscience de soi & remise en cause » au même niveau de considération et d’impératif représentent une évolution qui redéfinit les exigences et attentes au plus haut niveau.
Ces conclusions réorientent de manière significative la recherche des leaders d’entreprise de demain.
Innovation and digital disruption in professional servicesTapmint
This is a presentation for http://tapmint.com which I gave internally at one of the world's largest professional services firms. It discusses digital disruption in financial services, professional services and accounting services.
Various models of corporate innovation are also highlighted. Case studies of 3 companies are provided - Suncorp Group, Sensis and Carsales. Finally, I provide some thoughts on implementation.
Issue 24 of Deloitte Review:
- Accelerating digital transformation in banking
- Social capital: Measuring the community impact of corporate spending
- How leaders are navigating the Fourth Industrial Revolution
- The Industry 4.0 paradox
- Tax governance in the world of Industry 4.0
- Regulating the future of mobility
- Picturing how advanced technologies are reshaping mobility
- To live and drive in LA
- What is work?
- Superminds: How humans and machines can work together
- Are you having fun yet?
- Engaging workers like consumers
- How the financial crisis reshaped the world’s workforce
Digital technologies have emerged as disruptive forces within corporations across all industries. These fundamental changes require a new type of leadership that will enable innovation and transformation to fully embraced. Truly digital leaders hold the key. Digital leaders in modern corporations include the CIO, CTO, CDO, and CMO.
The first objective of this report is to
pinpoint exactly what we mean by ‘digital
transformation’ and understand the reasons
why it is often misunderstood.
With a clear definition in mind, we move
forward to reveal the ways in which
digital transformation is changing modern
businesses. These changes run the full
spectrum from the conceptual to the
practical, in line with the broad range of
changes we are seeing.
Key findings:
Only 53% of businesses
have a formalized digital
transformation plan.
72% of employees are not
satisfied with the digital
training they receive.
44% of survey respondents
cited data analysis as the
most important skill to
invest in.
64% of respondents say
their role has changed
considerably in the last
5 years.
Only 35% say there is a
plan in place to help them
develop the skills they
need.
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CEOs talk to consultancies. CIOs talk to technology companies. CMOs talk to agencies. Strategists talk to research firms, Business and organizational change can't be this tribalized.
Wikibrands' imperative, raison d'être, direction, assets, 3 benefits and 15 types of client engagements enclosed . www.wiki-brands.com @wikibrands
The Future of Corporate Learning: from Training to Learning ExperienceFabernovel
With innovation cycles becoming ever shorter, companies are faced with a new challenge: keeping their key skills up to date in real time. This strategic dimension of ‘workforce planning’ cannot rely solely on recruitment; existing employees must be able to continuously learn new things. As such, the number one skill companies now look for is the capacity to learn, and companies are particularly looking for ‘learning animals’, a term coined by Google.
To download the full report: http://eepurl.com/guJvA5
With advancing technologies, many organizations are focused more than ever on recruiting—particularly for skills they
need to succeed, such as expertise in data science, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. These hard-to-find and
hard-to-hire skills—like so many other skilled professions—cost a lot to recruit. With labor pools shrinking, retaining
talent at every level is critical. Recruiting is more expensive than retention, which can be optimized via training or
creating a culture of constant learning. Choosing recruitment over retention also has a negative effect on employees,
who are left to wonder why their work seems to have less value than that of a new employee.
In this environment, it becomes clear that value lies in the engagement of employees—making sure they are actively
contributing to the company while learning new skills and advancing their own careers. But how to measure something
as intangible as engagement?
The first objective of this report is to
pinpoint exactly what we mean by ‘digital
transformation’ and understand the reasons
why it is often misunderstood.
With a clear definition in mind, we move
forward to reveal the ways in which
digital transformation is changing modern
businesses. These changes run the full
spectrum from the conceptual to the
practical, in line with the broad range of
changes we are seeing.
Key findings:
Only 53% of businesses
have a formalized digital
transformation plan.
72% of employees are not
satisfied with the digital
training they receive.
44% of survey respondents
cited data analysis as the
most important skill to
invest in.
64% of respondents say
their role has changed
considerably in the last
5 years.
Only 35% say there is a
plan in place to help them
develop the skills they
need.
The Engagement Gap: How executives and employees think differently about empl...Brian Solis
New survey data shows that employees and executives have different views about employee engagement and the things organizations do to improve it. This is the result of the Engagement Gap. Employee engagement programs, while well intentioned, often miss the mark. This white paper describes the Engagement Gap, and shares survey results captured by Jostle Corporation in partnership with Brian Solis. The data suggests that effective employee engagement programs focus on turning organizations into more meaningful, congenial, and transparent communities.
Wikibrands 2018 Focus - Futureproofing & Transformation Sean Moffitt
Not an agency, not a consultancy, not a software co. just the world's best futureproofing and disruption trailblazers led by Sean Moffitt & Mike Dover.
CEOs talk to consultancies. CIOs talk to technology companies. CMOs talk to agencies. Strategists talk to research firms, Business and organizational change can't be this tribalized.
Wikibrands' imperative, raison d'être, direction, assets, 3 benefits and 15 types of client engagements enclosed . www.wiki-brands.com @wikibrands
The Future of Corporate Learning: from Training to Learning ExperienceFabernovel
With innovation cycles becoming ever shorter, companies are faced with a new challenge: keeping their key skills up to date in real time. This strategic dimension of ‘workforce planning’ cannot rely solely on recruitment; existing employees must be able to continuously learn new things. As such, the number one skill companies now look for is the capacity to learn, and companies are particularly looking for ‘learning animals’, a term coined by Google.
To download the full report: http://eepurl.com/guJvA5
With advancing technologies, many organizations are focused more than ever on recruiting—particularly for skills they
need to succeed, such as expertise in data science, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. These hard-to-find and
hard-to-hire skills—like so many other skilled professions—cost a lot to recruit. With labor pools shrinking, retaining
talent at every level is critical. Recruiting is more expensive than retention, which can be optimized via training or
creating a culture of constant learning. Choosing recruitment over retention also has a negative effect on employees,
who are left to wonder why their work seems to have less value than that of a new employee.
In this environment, it becomes clear that value lies in the engagement of employees—making sure they are actively
contributing to the company while learning new skills and advancing their own careers. But how to measure something
as intangible as engagement?
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We’re all in business and we’re all constantly searching for the same thing. Something magical with the power to create profit without changing our products, services or customers.
The good news is that I’ve found it! And it may not be quite what you were expecting. It’s been around longer than any technology. It requires no market intelligence. And there’s not a hashtag or emoji in sight! Even better, is that there’s a simple three-step plan to harness it. Or should I say ‘them’.
Because the opportunity is to be found in our people. Particularly our managers who have the ability to take our culture, our people and our performance to new levels. Like all the greatest opportunities, it has been caused by change. People like us who are running businesses are (on average) getting older. Yet, in Asia, seventy percent of employees are Millennials. Elsewhere in the world that number is over thirty percent. Between them and the directors who pay their wages lies a huge gulf in culture, expectations and values.
The ‘C’ suite within so many businesses remains linear and traditional. They have grown-up in a world where the numbers come first, and the culture comes a distant second at best. Employees, on the other hand, are more agile and value-led. They choose to work in ethical, progressive and consultative environments. They are uninspired by the ‘same old’ approach to HR, training and culture. They are desperate to find something newer, better and more empathetic and they are willing to move jobs to find it.
This presents an incredible opportunity. The vast majority of businesses are not bridging the culture gap. They have focused on what their customers want, without making a similar adjustment to the ever-changing needs of their employees. This is so easy to change. Many great businesses have already done it. The majority are run by Millennials. They recognise that, even in the age of technology, people remain our greatest asset, and can produce the greatest returns of all. Each has delivered on these three simple steps:
• They have a clear corporate vision embracing everything they do
• With an agility that allows their people to flourish
• And an empathy that allows them to embrace, not repel, their people
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Next generations CEOs Study 2016 - kienbaum
1. Kienbaum Consultants International
Introduces its 2016 updated study about the Executive Leadership Competency Models of the future
Next Generations CEOs
Foreseeing what leaders will look like in the next decades
and the Leadership skills required at the top
“New Leadership” profiles are and will increasingly be dictated by the Digital surge
(This study is based on face-to-face conversations with more than a hundred business leaders in France and Europe)
2. Macro level evolutions at stake
The growing use of technology,
the economics impacts of automation
and the evolution of the societal model
Companies are getting bigger
and above all, flatter
25 years from now, some 30% of the
world's 2,500 top global CEOs will be
women (around 5% today)
CEOs’ selection, turnover, and
succession issues: an increasing impact
on the enterprise
100 billion dollars: estimation of the economic
cost for the world’ largest companies of
appointing the wrong CEO through forced
turnovers.
Over 80% of the companies are planning their
CEO’s succession and it is increasing.
40% of all forced turnovers have taken place
within the lowest-performing companies.
The companies still need to enhance forward-
looking and creative CEO specifications, with a
big picture and global understanding.
1/3 by 2040
A dynamic complexity
Success trends
A new generation & economy
A clear catching-up and a start to a natural
rebalancing of the particularly biased and unfair
situation, based on the recent trends in female
education, appointments and social norm
evolution.
But this prediction can also be related to the
requirement of a new style of leadership to guide
corporations in times of perpetual changes: more
empathetic, open and collaborative with a high
level of emotional intelligence.
In an increasingly digital-first world, business
organizations are becoming more and more flat
and horizontal structures with fluid exchanges and
the emergence of a liquid workforce.
This liquid workforce will build companies’
tomorrow competitive advantage.
In 2015, millennials became the largest share of the
workforce. By 2025, that number will be 76%
globally.
Worker redistribution with automation taking over
more routine, manual and repetitive tasks: around
45% activities/jobs concerned today.
43% of the US workforce is expected to be
freelance by 2020.
* Figures on that page are from Strategy& study: CEOs, Governance, and Success
3. Complexity is the new normal
When uncertainty becomes an opportunity
The 17th century mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal’s wager can he be used as
an elegant reference to formulate a pragmatic argument:
To build the most durable and outstanding competitive advantages.
Set up a clear strategic course and accept to regularly change the way to get there. Build a tactical agility to test and change as
often as required and as quickly as possible.
Rely on a well-defined vision and shared values and communicate consistently and intensively without altering it to stimulate
confidence and faith to take advantage of every opportunity.
Nearly half of the CEOs feel that they aren’t prepared to handle the ever-rising complexity.
The level of complexity is expected to continue to grow in the next decades.
Coping with change is not enough
Business leaders must interact and step up as part of society as a whole.
Leaders are no longer appointed and need to be elected, trusted, connected to the people.
The foreseeing changes are more than just business fluctuations. It is a inclusive process reunifying and shaking up business and
social pillars.
A
VUCA
world
Necessity to effectively capitalize on complexity and invest on it
To engage in a social, business, politic and technology integration
And accept unbalance
Enhance breakthrough thinking and develop an
experimentation culture at all levels of the organization.
Fight the natural impulse to wait for simplicity and take
calculated risk.
The rational choice is to believe in God
The rational choice is to embrace ambiguity and
act despite uncertainty: invest in the future so you don’t miss it
Volatile & Versatile
An environment with more risk, different and faster cycles
Complex & Open
Not only global but multimodal, deeper, wider and fluid
The wise thing to do is to live your life as if God does
exist because such a life has everything to gain and
nothing to lose.
If we live as though God exists, and He does indeed
exist, we have gained heaven. If He doesn’t exist, we
have lost nothing.
If, on the other hand, we live as though God does not
exist and He really does exist, we have gained hell and
punishment and have lost heaven and bliss.
Uncertain & Unusual
Getting harder and harder to predict long term trends and even
immediate behaviors
Ambiguous
Not an evolution or a transformation anymore but a revolution
engaging all parts of interconnected societies
4. From the mid-sixties
to now
The Top Manager
Large and management savvy C-suite advisors
Career manager profiles
Pragmatic and deal maker
Stronger cultural role
1st half of the 20th
Century
The Indisputable Sovereign
Imperial entrepreneurs
Industry builders
Reduced C-suite and executive team
In the next decades
The Authentic &
Simplifier Visionary
1/3 of the CEO’s will be women
Increased mastering of technology
Less barriers to entry new markets for small players
Continuous learning and more focus leaders
Less autocratic and more collaborative management environment
IT and technology integrated in everything
Better informed and data-supported decisions
War for resources
Age of transparency
Today
The Agile Leader
Flattening of the hierarchy
Great variety of experience
The world is becoming more unpredictable
Global war for talent
Necessity to build durable and strong corporate
cultures
Move towards a service-
based economy
Beginning of
globalization
Global recession
Emergence of
developed countries
Environmental risks
Executive Leadership evolution:
past and upcoming models & trends
Rise of the
complexity
Change is a
permanent process
Technologies
expansion
5. The face of the next leaders
Strategic Skills & Vision
Self Awareness & Communication
+ Emotional Intelligence
Inspirational & Charismatic Leadership
+ Social Intelligence
Execution Skills & Agility
Social Architect & Connector
Formulate guidance and give
orientations
More animation and less control
Talent recruiter and developer
Passionate, Engaged
Complexity Savvy
Inspiring & Federative
Embrace ambiguity
Risk taker, fast and flexible
Tech Adopter
Resilience
Persuasive and enthusiastic
Influencer
Open & Self-learner
Creative
& Big-Picture Thinker
Transparent & Responsible
Exemplarity
Humility
Authenticity
Followership and empowerment
Clear vision
Leverage collaboration
Simplifier in Chief
with every stakeholders : teams, customers, citizens…
Strong communicator, Team player, Customer centric
Prepared for the unknown
Forward looking
Breakthrough Innovation
Intuition
Curious
Agile
Empathetic
#4 major leadership dimensions
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6. About Kienbaum Consultants International
Kienbaum is a world’s leading family-owned provider of senior-level executive search and leadership
consulting, serving clients globally for 70 years. Our consultancy services uniquely concentrate on
leadership and transformation. In Germany since 1945 and in France for over 20 years, Kienbaum
advises large multinational organizations, listed or family-owned medium-sized companies and
startups on building, reinforcing and developing their executive and leadership teams.
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About the author
Romain Eyherabide focuses on Executive Search and Management
Assessment in the Technology, Communications as well as Media
& Entertainment sectors.
He ran several Digital Leadership studies and is part of Kienbaum’s
digital practice advising Chief Executive Officers regarding
transformation challenges.
He also serves clients on Information & Technology Officers
assignments and is particularly knowledgeable in Innovation
projects.
Romain Eyherabide
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Kienbaum Paris
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While continually working in new areas to develop the most creative and independent solutions and
concepts for the markets of tomorrow, we focus our expertise on how an individual can have
impact on competitiveness. Our job in helping organizations is obviously highly resonant with the
world’s evolution and company challenges to address unprecedented transformations and grasp
increase complexity at high speed.
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