As I was driving my car last week, I noticed that driving was less stressful than it used to be. There were no traffic jams, but that wasn’t the reason. It was because the speed limit was changed. Let me … Read More
Heard in a discussion on leadership this morning: “Do you choose to have a clear vision or operate in an unclear fog? In a fog you move slowly and carefully, but with clear vision you can speed up.” Have you … Read More
How do you want to steer your business? By reacting to daily events, which risks firefighting, or by working towards your goals? The latter is the subject of my second (Dutch) book review at Managementboek.nl. The book ‘Navigeren op essentie … Read More
Step #7 in digital transformation sucess is to adapt and innovate quickly. This is often taken to mean “adopt Agile development”, but that’s no use without speeding up management decision-making as well. Think about the steps for adopting an innovation: … Read More
As a business leader, what’s your no-regret move in our current economy? My conversations with CEOs suggest it’s to improve operational efficiency and cut operational costs. Demand continues to grow in many sectors, so companies are not just looking at … Read More
If you’re planning to launch a new product, service or business line, you probably want to test your ideas before launch. How would you go about doing that? I have expanded my love of business books into writing book reviews, … Read More
If company strategies risk sounding the same when written by people, what happens when they get written by AI? In this post I examine an AI-generated strategy statement for what it says about the abilities of AI and creating strategies. … Read More
Have you heard of the peanut butter strategy? That’s the one where a company spreads its resources thinly across lots of initiatives, so none of them have enough critical mass to make real progress. I’m not a fan of it. … Read More
Step #6 in digital transformation sucess is to integrate your systems. It follows directly from step #5, transform the whole company. Once you have multiple data sources, they must come together in a “single source of truth”. Ideally there would … Read More
Step #5 in digital transformation success is to transform the whole company. Your entire management team needs to support and implement the transformation because it cuts across all functions. When you digitise one process, like customer service, it cannot run … Read More