Video: Digital disruption – THE question to ask your business

Adam Burns·11 April 2016·Enabling Technologies

...A big problem for many companies dealing with digitally-enabled market disruption is not knowing where to start the transformation. We react to competition, but don’t focus on where we – as an organization – want to be. Read More...

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Technology in the Boardroom

Peter Murchland·6 April 2016·Strategy & Innovation

...One of the comments made about my article – Architecture in the Boardroom – started with … Architecture is too closely connected with technology to get anywhere near the Board. I was quite concerned by the implication that technology is not part of Boardroom discussion and decisions.   This prompted thoughts about the various ways in which I have seen Boards dealing with technology, including: Read More...

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Architecture in the Boardroom

Peter Murchland·28 March 2016·People & Change

...This article seeks to explore some of the challenges facing Directors and to explore how the development and maintenance of an architectural representation of a digital enterprise might contribute to better dealing with these challenges. Issues facing enterprises Different enterprises face different issues.  However, some issues faced in common… Read More...

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5 Takeaways From SaaStr Annual Conference From The One and Only, Dharmesh Shah

Sangram Vajre·28 March 2016·Customer Engagement

...Outside of Jason Lemkin and Jason Green, the one person I respect the most in the SaaS industry is Dharmesh Shah. This guy has literally shaped the SaaS industry and proved that it can be built outside of the Silicon Valley. If you didn’t get a chance to go to SaaStr Annual Conference, check out the Livestream here of many of the sessions right here: Read More...

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Digital program: 15 critical success factors

Joseph Dolphin·22 March 2016·Delivery

...Project teams need to be aware and keep-in-view the critical success factors, that impact management of enterprise-wide Digital implementation programs. Examples: Projects that impact over 50+ users Projects that will impact several offices across locations Projects that will impact significant number of business processes Projects that will introduce a new enterprise-wide application Read More...

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Are you ready to change?

Richard Morecroft·22 March 2016·People & Change

...Digital Transformation (DT) means different things to different people but I can tell you now, there is no magic formula to adopt to make it happen. DT covers a huge subject area, but generally refers to the process of changing your business by embracing the changes/opportunities in online customer behaviour OR through the adoption of digital technologies directly ….OR (which is actually more likely) both! If you are contemplating embarking on digital change then you are contemplating changes to strategy, skills, technology or operations just to name a few. Read More...

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Start a Change Revolution

Braden Kelley·22 March 2016·People & Change

...The pace of change is accelerating, and for many people (and companies) things are changing so fast that they feel overwhelmed and retreat to the familiar instead of embracing the change. In fact we are approaching a tipping point where what is becoming interesting to the young is not the new, but the old. Vintage Michael Jordan sneakers, vinyl albums, rotary telephones, and analog amplifiers all have growing numbers of fans. In fact, vinyl album sales are increasing as CD sales decrease. Read More...

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Industry 4.0: What it means to global industry and consumers

Philip Dwyer·22 March 2016·The Case For Digital Transformation

...We are in the midst of Industry 4.0 – the fourth wave of technological advancement which will fundamentally alter the way that industry and consumer ecosystems will evolve. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the world's top 2,500 business leaders, international political leaders, selected intellectuals, and journalists met at the World Economic Forum in Davos recently to discuss the most pressing issues facing the world, of which, Industry 4.0 was front and center. Read More...

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Blockchain Technology in Capital Markets – A long journey with many unknowns

Indra Chourasia·16 March 2016·Enabling Technologies

...“It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true”                                      – Freeman Dyson (theoretical physicist and mathematician) Blockchain or distributed ledger technology[i] and its application in financial services has generated… Read More...

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“Doing the right thing”. What does this actually mean?

Micha Veen·10 March 2016·People & Change

...In the last couple of days, I have come across various organisations that have, as one of their values, “Doing the right thing”. Although, I fully support this organisational value and as an entrepreneur it’s crucial to live by this, “Doing the right thing” but Doing the right thing” means different things to different… Read More...

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Work e-mail is the purest form of hierarchy there is

Ted Bauer·10 March 2016·People & Change

...Before we get into this, let's just be clear up front: e-mail is probably one of the worst things mankind has wrought upon us. There's a ton of topics in the general 'working world' that we never discuss, but should discuss -- because those topics pretty much define everything that happens between people in cubicles and offices. The most notable example is failure; that happens every second in most offices, and yet, we often decide to gloss it over with a new, cheapened success metric. Read More...

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Increase Your Organizational Agility

Braden Kelley·2 March 2016·People & Change

...Companies seeking to cope with the pace of accelerating change are looking for ways to go faster, and managers in non-technical disciplines have become increasingly infatuated with the Agile Software Development methodology and many are finding ways to adapt parts of it to create agile change or agile marketing or other such things. Sure agility sounds like a good thing and sure agile marketing sounds like it must be better than regular marketing, but is it? Read More...

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