by Kimberly Arnold - CEO, Escalate Solutions | Aug 15, 2022 | CEO, Digital Transformation, Kimberly Arnold, Leadership, Strategy, Women in Business
OUTCOMES: A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF ONE YEAR WITHIN THE MICROSOFT ECOSYSTEM What was initially expected to be a 3-month engagement evolved into nearly a year-long strategic and tactical external resource (XR) role for the Microsoft Health & Life Sciences Cloud + Data...
by Kimberly Arnold - CEO, Escalate Solutions | Sep 1, 2021 | C-Suite, CEO, Digital Transformation, Kimberly Arnold, Leadership, Uncategorized, Women in Business
FOCUS ON NEW ENGAGEMENT FOR MICROSOFT CORPORATION Escalate Solutions CEO/Founder Kimberly Arnold has accepted a new engagement (via Waypoint Ventures) to work as a consultant to Microsoft Corporation’s Health & Life Sciences Cloud + Data team. Kimberly will...
by Kimberly Arnold - CEO, Escalate Solutions | Aug 20, 2021 | Alignment, Corporate Culture, Growth Strategy, Operations, Small Business, Strategy, Technology, Value Proposition
ALL STAKEHOLDERS ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL How many times have you heard leadership prioritizing “meeting the needs of stakeholders”, without discerning between who those stakeholders are, how their roles differ, and how each category of stakeholder must be...
by Kimberly Arnold - CEO, Escalate Solutions | Feb 20, 2021 | Brand, C-Suite, Corporate Culture, Culture, Entrepreneurship, Growth Strategy, Leadership, Small Business, Strategy, Value Proposition
YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A CORPORATION TO PROMOTE CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Now, more than ever, inclusion, innovation, corporate responsibility, sustainability, resiliency, authenticity, transparency and trust are critical cores of growth. Not only can...
by Kimberly Arnold - CEO, Escalate Solutions | Nov 23, 2020 | Boards, C-Suite, CEO, CMO, COO, Corporate Culture, CSO, CTO, Culture, Digital Transformation, Entrepreneurship, Growth Strategy, Intelligent Enterprise, Kimberly Arnold, Leadership, Mission, Pivoting, Research, Small Business, Strategy, Value Proposition
STRATEGY IN A “VUCA” ENVIRONMENT CAN BE OVERWHELMING. FOCUS ON THE CONTROLLABLE…& THE OBVIOUS. 2020 will be looked back upon as one of the most disruptive VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) environments the business world has...
by Kimberly Arnold - CEO, Escalate Solutions | Oct 30, 2020 | CEO, Entrepreneurship, Government, Kimberly Arnold, Leadership, Small Business, Strategy, Women in Business
LOCAL STRATEGIC ADVISORY FIRM ANNOUNCES RENEWALS OF ITS WBE, SBE, EBE, EBE & ACDBE STATUS Escalate Solutions, a Denver-based advisory firm focused on leveraging the intersection of strategy, operations and technology, is proud to announce the renewal of its...
by Kimberly Arnold - CEO, Escalate Solutions | Oct 16, 2020 | CEO, Entrepreneurship, Kimberly Arnold, Leadership, Small Business, Women in Business
Escalate Solutions, a Denver-based advisory firm focused on leveraging the intersection of strategy, operations and technology, is proud to announce national certification as a Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) by the Women’s Business Enterprise Council –...
by Kimberly Arnold - CEO, Escalate Solutions | Sep 17, 2020 | Entrepreneurship, Kimberly Arnold, Leadership, Strategy, Women in Business
ARNOLD AMONG PROMINENT DENVER-AREA ENTREPRENEURS LENDING SUPPORT THE RAPIDLY GROWING COLLEGE OF BUSINESS Escalate Solutions CEO Kimberly Arnold joined the Advisory Board for the Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Department of Management in 2018, and was...
by Kimberly Arnold - CEO, Escalate Solutions | Jun 30, 2020 | Agile, C-Suite, CEO, CMO, COO, Corporate Culture, CSO, CTO, Culture, Digital Transformation, Growth Strategy, Intelligent Enterprise, Kimberly Arnold, Leadership, Mission, Operations, Pivoting, Strategy, Value Proposition, Values, Vision
WHETHER CONDUCTING DUE DILIGENCE FOR POTENTIAL INVESTORS OR ADVISING ON STRATEGY FOR THE C-SUITE, ESCALATE SOLUTIONS AUDITS THE OPERATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONS THROUGH A MORE HOLISTIC, FUTURIST LENS Agile frameworks aren’t a new concept, although one might think...
by Kimberly Arnold - CEO, Escalate Solutions | May 2, 2020 | Agile, C-Suite, CEO, CMO, COO, Corporate Culture, CSO, CTO, Culture, Digital Transformation, Disruption, Entrepreneurship, Growth Strategy, Intelligent Enterprise, Kimberly Arnold, Leadership, Machine Learning, Pivoting, Scaling, Small Business, Strategy, Technology
WHAT SOLUTIONS LIKE CONTAINERS & MICROSERVICES CAN TEACH BUSINESS LEADERS ABOUT NAVIGATING THE CHALLENGES OF THE GLOBAL PANDEMIC: WORKFLOWS, ADAPTATION, FILTERS & FOCUS Digital Transformation isn’t just about technologies like cloud computing,...
by Kimberly Arnold - CEO, Escalate Solutions | Apr 25, 2020 | Agile, C-Suite, CEO, Corporate Culture, Digital Transformation, Entrepreneurship, Growth Strategy, Kimberly Arnold, Leadership, Operations, Pivoting, Scaling, Small Business, Strategy, Sustainability, Technology
DENVER-BASED COLLABORATION REDIRECTS CONSULTING RESOURCES TO SUPPORT CRITICAL STAKEHOLDERS IN THE 2020 FINANCIAL CRISIS. << DOWNLOAD THE BANK DECK HERE >> As the economic impact resulting from the coronavirus shutdown intensifies, Escalate Solutions CEO,...
by Kimberly Arnold - CEO, Escalate Solutions | Apr 12, 2020 | Agile, C-Suite, Corporate Culture, Digital Transformation, Growth Strategy, Leadership, Operations, Strategy, Value Proposition
IN THE DIGITAL AGE, COMPETITION HAD ALREADY TAKEN A BACK SEAT TO COLLABORATION. THE GLOBAL PANDEMIC IS TAKING THAT PRIORITIZATION TO A NEW LEVEL. Tech rivals Apple and Google announced a partnership last week aimed at addressing the Covid-19 pandemic. The concept...
by Kimberly Arnold - CEO, Escalate Solutions | Mar 25, 2020 | Agile, C-Suite, CEO, CMO, COO, Digital Transformation, Leadership, Operations, Pivoting, Small Business, Strategy, Sustainability
The other day, a global executive being interviewed on a business news channel described his company’s position as “teetering on the edge of a cliff”. I recognize that countless others feel as if they are in the same barrel. A few months ago, I...
by Kimberly Arnold - CEO, Escalate Solutions | Mar 7, 2020 | Digital Transformation, Entrepreneurship, Government, International, Kimberly Arnold, Leadership, Operations, Small Business, Strategy, Technology, Women in Business
Escalate Solutions, a Denver-based advisory firm focused on leveraging the intersection of strategy, operations and technology, is proud to announce that it has achieved certification as a Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB) and Economically Disadvantaged Woman Owned...
by Kimberly Arnold - CEO, Escalate Solutions | Dec 8, 2019 | Agile, Alignment, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Blockchain, C-Suite, Corporate Culture, CTO, Culture, Digital Transformation, Disruption, Intelligent Enterprise, IoT, Leadership, Machine Learning, Operations, Pivoting, Strategy, Value Proposition
Internal silos are killing Digital Transformation initiatives, because c-suites are failing to collaborate between strategy, culture, operations and technology. In more ways that not, embarking on a Digital Transformation initiative is no different that any other...
by Kimberly Arnold - CEO, Escalate Solutions | Nov 29, 2019 | Agile, Brand, Corporate Culture, Digital Transformation, Intelligent Enterprise, Leadership, Small Business, Strategy
This post is an update to an article originally shared by Escalate Solutions in 2017. The Colorado Secretary of State’s office reports that nearly 2,000 businesses were launched in my home state every week throughout 2019. Nationally, according to the Small...
by Kimberly Arnold - CEO, Escalate Solutions | Oct 28, 2019 | Agile, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Blockchain, Boards, C-Suite, CEO, CMO, COO, CSO, CTO, Digital Transformation, Disruption, Intelligent Enterprise, Kimberly Arnold, Leadership, Operations, Strategy
LEADERS ARE STRUGGLING TO KEEP PACE IN INDUSTRY 4.0 – DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION, AGILE METHODOLOGIES ARE VITAL TO SUCCESS Senior executives are perpetually challenged to parallel their individual skill sets with the fundamentals of their organizations as...
by Kimberly Arnold - CEO, Escalate Solutions | Aug 8, 2019 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Blockchain, Digital Transformation, Disruption, Intelligent Enterprise, IoT, Kimberly Arnold, Machine Learning, SAP, Strategy, Technology
Escalate Solutions CEO Kimberly Arnold Invests in Advanced Training and Certifications Specific to Strategy, AI, ML, IoT, Cybersecurity Blockchain, Digital Transformation and Intelligent Enterprise Escalate Solutions has always been, and always will be, exclusively...
by Kimberly Arnold - CEO, Escalate Solutions | Jul 15, 2019 | Agile, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, C-Suite, Digital Transformation, Disruption, Emerging Leaders, Entrepreneurship, Growth Strategy, Intelligent Enterprise, IoT, Leadership, Machine Learning, Robotics, Small Business, Strategy, Sustainability, Technology, Value Proposition, Vision
Followers of the Escalate Solutions blog know that we love to offer observations about conflicting dichotomies in business, truths that in theory shouldn’t co-exist but still manage to every day (see Birds of a Feather Flock Together vs Opposites Attract from...
by Kimberly Arnold - CEO, Escalate Solutions | Apr 1, 2019 | C-Suite, Corporate Culture, Delegation, Emerging Leaders, Entrepreneurship, Growth Strategy, Human Resources, Leadership, Millennials, Strategy, Sustainability, Women in Business
In early 2019, CNBC conducted a survey of CEO’s that defined the top three challenges facing organizations as:: Attracting & Retaining Top Talent Creating New Business Models to Address Disruptive Technologies Developing Next-Generation Leadership Specific...
