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Business Transformation Roundup
Everything Should Focus on Digital and Data Really? Although the vast majority of articles and commentary are focused on this topic, it doesn’t really make sense. For one thing just how many businesses are data rich? It works if you have a massive customer base and...
Leading Business Transformation
Needs a Good Leader Big changes require direction and leadership. Dictatorial changes are highly unlikely to embed once the power has been removed. So remember that if you are trying to transform your organisation, then presumably you want that to last beyond your...
People, Styles & Innovation
Innovation works if every member of the team plays to their strengths. What’s the Connection? Innovation requires people to look at the existing and visualise the new or different. As a consequence the way in which they interpret the world and the context will have an...
The Transformation Mix
What’s the right mix for business transformation to work? Three Big Things to Get Right I thought I’d keep this one quite simple. There are three big things to get right if you want a business or organisational transformation to work well. That said, of course you...
Transforming Small Business
Transforming small business can be a minefield for the unwary - yet it offers many fruitful possibilities. So where do you begin? Where is the Focus? It’s interesting to think about where the focus lies with a small business. Do they confine themselves to a locale or...
Business Transformation Blueprint
Some Simple Stages This time round I’d like to take you through a few simple stages that, taken together, form a blueprint for how to go about business transformation. It’s not quite an end-2-end process sequence because a couple of things need to work in parallel....
Post-COVID Growth & Consumerism
What Kind of World Do You Expect? There’s a serious question that is still awaiting answers about how things should be once the pandemic is behind us. It presupposes that humanity (in the developed world at least) is going to change somehow. Are we seeing a massive...
Myths of Online Business Transformation
There are Two Ways to Look at This First of all we’ll consider the approaches that are offered online. Virtually all of these are incomplete methods or processes to tackle a business transformation that is in part founded in bricks and mortar. Real people at a desk or...
Should You Restart A Failing Transformation?
A Tricky Question Deciding whether to restart when things go wrong isn’t an easy decision to make. In the first instance what evidence do you have that it isn’t working as opposed to just taking longer than expected? What planning and measurement was put in place from...