Reducing the risk of transformation failure.

Shaun Taylor·19 February 2024·Delivery

...Imagine investing £5m to £50m or more in a business with a 70% failure rate. According to McKinsey, Boston, and Bain, that’s what many organisations do when they embark on transformation initiatives. A recent Forbes article says 31% of CEO change is for not managing change well enough. A Gartner… Read More...

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Unlocking the potential of AI in HR: a comprehensive guide with 50 use cases

Stefano Besana·1 February 2024·People & Change

...I have in a previous article introduced guidelines for integrating Artificial Intelligence into HR. This piece aims to… Read More...

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What to do about Fragile Systems

Jim Wilt·29 September 2023·Delivery

...When we look at legacy systems built on out-of-support platforms in deprecated languages using dated data repositories, we can easily relate to their fragility. We’ll discuss this in Part 1. However, there are also new products built on less solid foundational practices that introduce a whole new level of… Read More...

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The Tractor, Farmer and Generative AI

Jim Wilt·29 September 2023·Data & Analytics

...The tractor did not replace the farmer, the calculator did not replace the mathematician, and Generative AI will not replace any of them either. Having recently relocated to Minnesota, I have grown to appreciate the beautiful rolling landscape of endless farms. Living here also means you regularly follow the “Millennial… Read More...

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Bridging the trust gap between leadership and engineering

Jim Wilt·1 May 2023·Delivery

...In 2016, Forbes assessed the risk of failure in digital transformation to be 84%. Today, Harvard Business Review indicates that the rate of digital transformations failing to meet their original objectives averages at 87.5%. Taking into account margins of error, we are essentially stagnant in our ability to improve. Five… Read More...

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The Human Heart of Transformation: An interview with Michael Leckie Author & Coach To The C-Suite

Tim Ellis·9 February 2023·People & Change

...I had the pleasure to speak to Michael Leckie, author of The Heart of Transformation and executive coach to C Suite, CEO and transformational leaders for global organisations. In this interview Michael shares his perspectives on exactly what is at the heart of transformation, the capabilities required to… Read More...

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Digital Transformation: it’s all about the people, stupid!

Tim Ellis·2 December 2022·People & Change

...“It’s the economy stupid!” To take Bill Clinton’s strategic advisor James Carville’s observation during the 1992 US elections on the overriding importance of the economy in the electorate’s minds, the same can be said of ‘the people’ in the world of business and commerce. I first heard “it’s all about… Read More...

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Measuring Digital Transformation.

Massimo Marcolivio·16 September 2021·Data & Analytics

...Peter Drucker’s mantra – You can’t manage what you don’t measure – applies as much to digital transformation as it does to any other business context. Yet, digital transformation provides a number of additional challenges. In some areas, such as digital marketing, there is a plethora of metrics and… Read More...

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Measuring Digital Transformation..

Michael Wade·22 July 2021·The Case For Digital Transformation

...Peter Drucker’s mantra – You can’t manage what you don’t measure – applies as much to digital transformation as it does to any other business context. Yet, digital transformation provides a number of additional challenges. In some areas, such as digital marketing, there is a plethora of metrics and… Read More...

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Measuring Digital Transformation

Michael Wade & Massimo Marcolivio·22 April 2021·Delivery

...Peter Drucker’s mantra – You can’t manage what you don’t measure – applies as much to digital transformation as it does to any other business context. Yet, digital transformation provides a number of additional challenges. In some areas, such as digital marketing, there is a plethora of metrics and… Read More...

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Data Strategy Made Simple – Episode 4 – Why your data is worth nothing … until you find out how to use it efficiently

Laurent Fayet·28 March 2021·Data & Analytics

...What if you had millions in your bank account and no mean to access it? How would you feel? What would you do? Sounds frustrating isn’t it? Well, that’s a situation many companies are facing. Sitting on gigantic piles of data and yet, not being able to leverage their full… Read More...

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Data Strategy Made Simple – Episode 3 – The 7 dimensions of data strategy

Laurent Fayet·15 March 2021·Data & Analytics

...Which topics you need to address to design an efficient data strategy and why. In Episode 1 of the Data Strategy Made Simple series, I explained that a simple one liner statement is enough to define a data strategy, BUT it is only the beginning of the story. Read More...

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