Lessons From The 1950’s, Real Transformation (And Value) Come From Systems Level Changes Not Technology Change

Traditionally technology has been used to automate and streamline business processes.  This started with mainframe based solutions that automated payroll or certain accounting functions, spreadsheets that enhanced and improved analytical capabilities or MRP and ERP solutions that sought to automate end to end supply chain processes and in some cases attempted to create an integrated whole.  What these solutions have […]

Analogue to Digital – How to Balance Old With New

This series of blogs is investigating the issues that traditional organisations, face in their journey to becoming digital organisations (in this context a traditional organisation is an organisation that was born and matured before digital was “a thing”). One of the major issues that leaders of traditional businesses face is the need to operate their dominant legacy traditional business alongside […]

The Need for Speed – One Team’s Transformation

Speed is one of the imperatives of our time.  Every organisation I work with wants to be able to do things faster whether it’s speed to gain an advantage or the not so positive, but equally important, speed to close down a competitor’s advantage. Everyone wants to go faster. The need for speed is not a new phenomenon. For as […]