Interviews and Clippings

Strategy is not a linear, two-step process, It is interconnected, iterative, and intertwined says Ricardo Viana Vargas

What, in your experience, is the state of strategy implementation in organizations worldwide?

Research indicates that a lot of work has been done towards identifying and defining the best strategy possible for a particular organization. In my experience working and talking with senior leaders, there is a common understanding that having a perfectly designed strategy won’t be enough to deliver great results. Organizations need to invest in the development of their strategy delivery capabilities.

Interview for the Business Debate (Reuters) at Davos about Brightline Initiative mission

Interview Ricardo Vargas gave to Reuters Business Debate channel talking about Brightline's mission and reason for existing.

Ricardo Vargas on "Humans 2.0" | WEF 2019 in Davos

The Economist Facebook live speech directly from Davos at The Economist panel on Humans 2.0. The panel was a partnership between the Project Management Institute, BCG and Brightline Initiative to discuss the future of work.

These are the internal roadblocks that can derail your new strategy

When companies design and implement new strategies, they tend to focus on external factors such as industry trends and competitor moves. But, much like life itself, internal struggles can be the most significant stumbling blocks.

Large enterprises must learn from agile start-ups – or risk stagnation

When it comes to strategy execution, smaller is better. For this reason, today’s corporate giants should look to agile start-ups for inspiration. In the modern world – where change seems to occur in the time it takes to click a mouse or tap a smartphone – newer, more agile companies are beating the long-standing industry players at their own game.

Brightline Initiative's Ricardo shows the road to transforming the future

In an exclusive interaction with People Matters, Ricardo Viana Vargas, Executive Director of the Brightline Initiative™, talks about bridging the gap between strategy development and implementation, and about transforming the future.

The Brightline Initiative is exploring how humans can thrive in the digital age

With technology continuing to grow in speed and capability, it is critical that leaders are able to exhibit the attributes that can’t be replicated by artificial intelligence in order to remain successful...

The Web future

Our interview was done by Paola Pisano, the first Councilor for Innovation of the City of Turin, who, also thanks to her historical research capital curriculum, proposes herself as a pole of attraction for a consolidated social and technological innovation through collaboration and participation, where public and private share objectives, challenges, risks and benefits, and Ricardo Viana Vargas, specialist in project management and implementation strategies based on IT tools and big data analysis for eminent global organizations, both in the private and corporate sector, both in government and non-profit areas.

Public-private partnerships: The only way forward?

Websummit panel about delivering results on public-private partnership.

Developing projects with social impact

Due to the lack of investment, everything points to the fact that without the support of the private sector, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals proposed by the UN can not be achieved by 2030. To find out how a public-private partnership can be promoted that contributes to its achievement , the Web Summit -considered as the largest technological conference on the planet- hosted the talk between two world experts in this area: Sarah Alexander, senior executive director of the Global Innovation Fund, and Ricardo Vargas, executive director of the Brightline Initiative.