Managing Business Transformation

Managing Business Transformation

12 Things to Effectively Manage Business Transformation Recognise the need Assign a Sponsor Assign a dedicated project/programme manager Build early awareness Identify cross-organisation stakeholders Include stakeholders in solution design Create a change management...
Components of Successful Business Transformation

Components of Successful Business Transformation

What Other People on the Web are Saying PLUS 1. Recognise the Need to Change 2. Share Your Jigsaw Lid 3. Invest in the Right Capabilities and Competencies 4. Allow Enough Time 5. Authentic Leadership 6. Communicate and Engage 7. Use a Governance Framework to Manage...
Challenges of Business Transformation

Challenges of Business Transformation

The Difference Between Global And Local Large corporations, especially those that are global, tend to grow via acquisitions. The result is a patchwork of different companies and sub-groups that have evolved over time and have their own unique ways of tackling similar...
Is Strategy the Key to Business Transformation

Is Strategy the Key to Business Transformation

It isn’t necessarily strategy but the reasons for undertaking business transformation are rooted in a wide variety of causes such as changes in the market environment, technology or other things. Strategy – The Guiding Star? It’s a solid principle of business...
When Business Isn’t Working

When Business Isn’t Working

So Your Business Isn’t Working In the present circumstances obviously that might be due to COVID lockdown and no opportunity to produce/sell. On the other hand it might also be due to other systemic factors. The question is – how are you going to deal with it...
Leading From A Distance

Leading From A Distance

Lead From a Distance – But Don’t Be Distant There’s something slightly unnerving about leading people whom you can’t actually see or touch. Things like missing the odd conversations when passing in the corridor, just checking on how things are going and if help...
Transformation In A Digital Workplace

Transformation In A Digital Workplace

Where IS The Office? It’s a question that will be on many people’s minds right now. Working digitally and (often) remotely takes away the usual context for a workplace. There’s no fixed desk nor are there colleagues just over your shoulder. Many folks working in the...
Learning the Ropes in Business Transformation

Learning the Ropes in Business Transformation

It’s Your First Time; Understand the People Involved; Analyse the Root Causes and Problems; Design Creatively; Plan Carefully; Run the Execution It’s Your First Time There always has to be a first time, whether that is leading or participating in a business...
Dealing With External Challenge

Dealing With External Challenge

Lessons From History Once in a while along comes something that derails everyone’s plans. In the 20th Century there were two global wars, Spanish Flu and a couple of other significant events like the Great Depression and the HIV/AIDS epidemic that rumbles on. It seems...
Dealing With COVID-19 in Business

Dealing With COVID-19 in Business

There are some useful things that can be done to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19. Using the Learning What’s pretty apparent is that having to face the COVID-19 coronavirus has forced a lot of learning onto a lot of people and organisations. For example the UK...