49 Floors: Climbing the Corporate Ladder, One Floor at a Time Posts


The Future of Business Services
Published: 2026-08-24
Enterprise services are evolving from operational hubs into strategic partners, connecting people, processes, data and intelligence to drive resilience.
Networks and Collective Intelligence
Published: 2026-08-21
Collective intelligence turns individual effort into scalable transformation through endurance, leadership and collaborative networks across sport and business.
Scaling Citizen Development
Published: 2026-08-19
Scalable citizen development empowers employees to build digital solutions and transform organizations through trust, governance, and learning.
Consulting in the Age of AI
Published: 2026-08-10
AI is transforming consulting. Discover how adaptability, continuous learning, and values-driven leadership are redefining success.
Reinventing Service Excellence
Published: 2026-07-30
Explore how adapting to change during a pandemic transformed service excellence and intelligent automation at DXC Technology.
Scaling Human-Centered Design
Published: 2026-07-24
IBM’s Enterprise Design Thinking scaled human-centered innovation, improving collaboration, digital transformation, and business outcomes.
Fearless leadership in uncertain times: how courage, resilience, diversity, and collaboration helped transform crisis into opportunity during a TEDx journey.
Volunteering as Leadership Training
Published: 2026-07-08
How IBM’s Service Corps turned skills-based volunteering into a leadership development engine that delivered social and business impact.
Security and Resilience at Scale
Published: 2026-07-02
Explore how IBM built digital resilience through proactive cybersecurity, hybrid cloud security, design thinking, compliance, and trust.
Enterprise AI Platforms
Published: 2026-06-25
Learn how enterprise AI became foundational, from Watson’s early promise to today’s scalable, human-centered platforms driving innovation.
The Cloud and Open Source Shift
Published: 2026-06-18
IBM’s hybrid cloud pivot and Red Hat acquisition show how open source, adaptability and resilience drive enterprise transformation.
From Mainframes to Quantum Finance
Published: 2026-06-10
From mainframes to quantum computing: IBM’s evolution enabling real-world innovation and a new era of data-driven decision-making.
Infrastructure as Competitive Edge
Published: 2026-06-03
Hybrid cloud and human-centered skills turn infrastructure into a resilient competitive edge, driving agility, continuous learning, and enterprise adaptation.
Leadership lessons on driving digital transformation through inclusion, reskilling, and ethical leadership.
When Governance Fails
Published: 2026-05-13
How weak governance erodes trust, culture and resilience – using Credit Suisse as a lesson in human-centered governance for large organizations.
Ethics at the Core of Governance
Published: 2026-05-05
First-hand insight into why ethical leadership underpins governance, trust and resilience, from human impact to AI-era decision-making.
Discover how governance connects people, processes, and data to make transformation coherent, accountable, and sustainable – beyond paperwork and silos.
Sustaining Awareness During Growth
Published: 2026-04-16
How success can weaken governance, create blind spots in organizations and personal lives, and why vigilance matters most during growth.
Why standards and governance guardrails matter: how consistent rules prevent drift, ensure fairness across global teams, and keep transformation on track.
Invisible Hierarchies and Governance
Published: 2026-03-03
Explore the dynamics of governance in organizations, highlighting the visible structures and invisible hierarchies that shape accountability and recognition.
The rise and fall of Credit Suisse shows how overlooked governance can quietly erode trust and long-term success, even in the most prestigious institutions.
Data-driven renewal and governance: a personal story from HP’s spin-off to Credit Suisse, showing how analytics signals change, value, and survival.
Discover why resilient data infrastructure is the backbone of digital transformation and long-term business agility.
A look at how data, analytics, and AI evolve from record‑keeping to strategic foresight, empowering leaders to turn numbers into meaningful action.
A reflection on why enterprises must evolve governance from control to orchestration, ensuring trust, alignment, and meaningful decisions in the age of AI.