Are We in Good Shape for a Digital Transformation?
By Anand Swaminathan & Jürgen Meffert
Innovation cycles run ever faster – with each of us experiencing ever more discontinuity. Anand Swaminathan and Jürgen Meffert,...
Rethinking Strategy for the Digital Age: An Executive Primer
By Stijn Viaene
Professor Stijn Viaene sheds light on the essential role of strategy in the digital age. The article further elaborates on what really...
Building a Culture of Continuous Innovation
By Braden Kelley
Building a company is not as simple as having the right amount of money. More than having a business plan, creating a...
Must-Have Technology Capabilities for Digital Transformation Mastering the Magnificent 15
By Stephen J. Andriole
Digital transformation is about efficiency and competitiveness. It requires a deep understanding of current and emerging business processes and models and...
Organisational Identity as the Touchstone for Strategic Decision Making
By John C. Camillus
A firm’s Identity – its core values, enduring aspirations and distinctive competencies – is intended to guide management’s decision making. This...
Future Work: Changes, Choices & Consequences
By Jonathan Trevor
Despite enabling widespread automation of routine tasks, mechanical technologies have created many more job opportunities than they have replaced in our Industrial...
What causes managers to change their business model?
By Tina Saebi, Lasse Lien and Nicolai Foss
Business models define how companies create, deliver and capture value. But business models are not static –...
Creating a One-Company Culture: Internal Strategy for External Success
By Paul Argenti
In the last century, large corporations have expanded in size, reach, and complexity. To keep employees aligned strategically, management must dedicate resources...
The 4 D’s of Successful Business Transformation
By John Sutherland
You cannot build successful transformation in a hurry. The best transformation projects are slow-cooked, not microwaved. In this article, John Sutherland introduces...
Leading Enterprise Wide Transformation and the Change Leader’s Job
By Douglas Ready
Implementing Enterprise-Wide Transformation has proven to be troubling – well-regarded consultancies’ research can back this up. In this article, Doug Ready discusses...
The Building Blocks of Digital Transformation: Intelligence, Integration and Impact
By David Dubois
Leading an organisation’s digital transformation simultaneously entails driving change within three key pillars of one’s business: intelligence (competitive insights); integration (organisational structure...
Disrupting the disruption: 10 Principles for Digital Success
By Chris Outram
These ten principles for success will steer the most digitally ambitious organisations (pure-play or hybrid) safely along on the road to digital...
The Key Levers for Sales Transformation Success
By Warren Shiver and Michael Perla
For a sales organisation to reach its “ideal transformational advantage” it needs to pull the right levers in...
Why Robots May Not Be Taking Your Job – at least, not in...
How Organisations Can Embrace Automation
By Leslie Willcocks
In this article Professor Willcocks discusses the reality of robots, what they mean for ‘human’ jobs and how...
The Transformation Imperative Collaborative Leadership is Key For Future Success
By John Mattone
In this article, John Mattone discusses how progressive leaders in the business world are moving away from a conventional leadership culture and...
Change Capability Building
By David Miller and Audra Proctor
The volume and complexity of change that organizations are facing continues to increase, and they cannot risk the negative...
Change as Strategy
By Walter McFarland
This article suggests that some traditional approaches to organisational change are obsolete – and recommends a new approach focused on creating new...
Impact of Digital on How We Implement Change
By Audra Proctor
No one doubts the effectiveness of face-to-face workshops for organisational change implementation. But the practicality of things, such as, availability, time, expense...
A Transformation Manifesto
By Richard Lynch and Jack Calhoun
Transformation is not about external forces, they are inevitable. It’s not about reorganisations, they don’t work. There are more...
Strategising to Win On the Global Playing Field: Making Real Strategic Choices in...
By Bart Tkaczyk
Attract the best people. Own shares either in good ships, or in none at all. Make your ship attractive, then good people...
Learn or Die: Every Business Will Be In The Business of Learning
By Edward D. Hess
The velocity of business change will increase over the next decade driven by technology advances making the speed and quality of...
The Heart of Change Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations
By John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
In The Heart of Change, John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen argue that successful large-scale organizational...
Leading towards Change of Ethics and Caring: Resisting Temptation and Reaping the Benefits
By Riane Eisler, Simon L. Dolan & Mario Raich
Businesses stand at a crossroads, and our current systems are not sustainable given the present economic...
The Strategy-to-Execution Process: A Critical Component of Transient Competitive Advantage
By Jack Calhoun
It’s not simply having a good idea that separates marketplace winners from losers – it’s possessing the ability to execute. In fact,...
Changes in Work, Changes in Self? Managing our Work and Non-Work Identities in...
By Lakshmi Ramarajan & Erin M. Reid
Diverse workplaces are challenging the boundaries between workers’ personal and professional lives, as workers today navigate employer pressures...
Leadership and Culture: Part 2 – Engaging the Enterprise: Creating a Growth Mindset Tribe
Mindset Tribe
By Sean Culey
Part 1 of this article (published in The European Business Review, May/June 2012) set out the case for Culture; it’s impact...
Delivering Transformational Change
By David Miller
Change is becoming more frequent, radical and complex. Failure rates of change projects are high because organisations fail to implement the change...
Managing Paradox: the discipline of strategic execution
By Andrew Binns and Wendy Smith
When a business faces the paradox between transforming for the future and securing its current market position, leading change...
Building Change Capacity in your Organization: Ensuring that you have the talent and bench...
By Charles H. Bishop, Jr.
Introduction
Business has experienced an evolution from the agricultural age to the Industrial Revolution to the information age. Now, the talent...
The 7 Keys to Unlocking Organisational Greatness
By Sean Culey
Sean Culey, member of the European Leadership Team of the Supply Chain Council and CEO of business improvement consultancy SEVEN Collaborative Solutions,...
The Sustainable Organisation – Driving value through organisational change
By Claire Arnold, Co Founder of Maxxim Consulting
Everyone who has the ambition, drive and competence to want the top job has to be alive...