Four out of five executives make decisions based on gut feelings. I was taken aback when I recently read the results of a new study. In our personal lives, we sometimes rely on intuition too—but fortunately not for major endeavors like thoroughly renovating a house. Nobody undertakes such a project without a skilled architect and…
Agility or ‘agility’ has become the code word for organizations that don’t want to be left behind. Unfortunately, in many organizations, that agility remains stuck at the operational level. Agile delivery is a step in the right direction but, for organizations that want to survive, it is high time to take agile to the next…
According to Tim Groenwals’ view this is crucial to the success of digital transformation. Every organization is different. So every digital transformation will be different. There is no single scenario for its success. And even if you have a good blueprint, many unexpected issues can crop up. To increase your chances of success, good collaboration…
Anyone can innovate. There is so much information out there, there are so many tools to help you – with a minimum budget and a little technological ingenuity, anyone can become an innovator. Only: if innovation is not embedded in an organization’s strategy, it will never be viable. As Geoffrey Moore put it in his…
A digital transformation not only gives an organization more clout, it also makes all parts of the organization collaborate more closely. Just as a digital transformation does not happen without a struggle, something often goes wrong in the translation of high-level organizational objectives into their realization through the deployment of technology at the operational level….
If we compare the role of the CIO to a book, it’s a story with lots of cliffhangers. And, right now, we are writing a particularly exciting chapter. One in which the CIO will no longer play a supporting role, but will instead determine the plot himself. After all, the CIO is the most appropriate…
Companies are increasingly looking for people who can do everything as part of their digital transformation. People who can think conceptually and specialize deeply at the same time. Unfortunately, not everyone is a ʽhomo universalis‘ who can do it all. Fortunately, there is also a solution to this challenge: the agency model. An agency brings…