Moving the Needle

How to Unlock the Human Side of Digital Transformation
Digital transformation has created a seismic shift that has reshaped industries, disrupted traditional business models, and left no corner of the world untouched. Imagine it as a colossal tsunami, rolling over everything in its path, reshaping the way we live and...

Navigating Uncertainty: Transforming Support Functions for the Digital Era
As the landscape of corporate operations experiences seismic shifts, the traditional concept of support functions finds itself at a critical point: either evolve to drive measurable impact or become fully automated. The challenge for business leaders is to understand...

Re-Thinking How to Delegate: Creating Teams for Success
One of the most powerful aspects of delegating outcomes is that it creates accountability. By entrusting team members with achieving objectives that impact the greater organization, leaders create a sense of ownership. Teams and their leaders should collaborate to...

Rapid Experimentation: The Fast Track to Overcoming Uncertainty
In the complexity of the globally-connected digital world, uncertainties and the assumptions on how to overcome them, hinder organizations from achieving their objectives. Enter rapid experimentation – a dynamic process that allows businesses to test ideas, challenge...

Steps to take to harness the power of innovation in your organization
Readers Note: If you’d like this content in audio format please click here Innovation. A word that permeates boardrooms, management meetings, and the corridors of organizations worldwide. It is key to staying relevant, thriving amidst continuous disruptions, and...

Value Stream Discovery
Note to reader: If you’d like an audio experience instead, please click here It’s likely you’ve heard the term “Value Stream” tossed around quite a bit without much context or definition. This is a shame, as creating greater efficiency without understanding an...

The Rise of Product Management
From its foundational beginnings in early brand management to high tech software program management, product management has emerged as its own collective of product-focused best practices. Product Management is a vital component of organizations undergoing digital...

How Innovation Labs Must Evolve
With the rise of entrepreneurial activity after The Great Recession, Innovation Labs became all the rage in corporate environments. Corporates wanted in on the energy, if not the spirit. The word “innovation” became a popular buzzword that meant so many different...

Re-think Your Next Re-org
When was the last time you went through a company re-org? Re-orgs seem to be happening more and more regularly, especially with large organizations, and the excuses for them are often tenuous. Within the startup world, there’s buzz that Elon Musk’s mass layoffs at...

Creating effective KPI’s for 2023
We’re coming to the end of 2022 and ’tis the season to evaluate 2022’s performance and plan for 2023 targets. Despite ongoing challenges in the economic and business environment, I’ve heard from many people that they had aggressive metrics for themselves and their...