Change in an organisation is like trying to assemble IKEA furniture without the instructions – it’s possible, but unnecessarily painful. The biggest challenge? Most organisations struggle to see the full impact of change before making it. Without a clear picture, decisions are based on gut feel, best guesses or endless debates that lead to… well, […]
Having the right data is the cornerstone of a successful digital transformation project. Without it, your transfortmation will be fraught with challenges, and you are likely to be amongst the 70% whose digital transformations fail! In a 2022 McKinsey Global Survey of 2,190 companies, two-thirds reported they were merely ‘treading water,’ taking no decisive action, […]
A Business Value Model is a representation of how your organisation enables value. Value for your teams, value for your customers, value for your shareholders. The ‘how you enable value’ is the important bit. A Business Value Model (BVM) should provide with enough knowledge to quantify and qualify the work that goes on in your […]
SIPOC (Suppliers, Inputs, Processes, Outputs and Customers) is a change management tool which has been around since the late 1980s. Often presented at the outset of process improvement efforts it is used: To give people who are unfamiliar with a process a high-level overview To reacquaint people whose familiarity with a process has faded or […]
We’ve all been in meetings with our decision makers, trying to get agreement that the change we want to implement is necessary, only to find some level of resistance? That resistance slows things down, generates re-work, creates frustration and generally leaves everyone involved wondering what just happened, especially given the effort required to get to […]
ContinuousNext was the focus of the opening Plenary session at Gartner Symposium on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. As you’d expect from an organisation with the reputation of Gartner, they didn’t fail to create an environment of learning and possibilities. More than 2,500 CIOs from across Asia Pacific were in attendance along with almost 50 […]
Over 2,000 years ago the great Roman playwright Plautus said “You must spend money to make money” Is this true? Is the only way to make it in this world to have money to start with? Of course it’s not always the case but what you do need are strategies, people and tools that […]
Have you ever worked out how much it costs for you to develop the business case for change in your organisation? I have, and it’s not pretty! The thing is, I believe that the workflow used to generate the case for change today is broken; It takes too long, Inapproriate tools are used, Prioritisation is […]
How’s business transformation going for you? I’ll hazard a guess: not well! Statistically that’s likely a good guess because so few transformation initiatives deliver. Under 20% of organisations have achieved their digital potential. You’ve read this far, so I’m also going to guess that you want to find a better way. Why we Invented LINQ […]
In this series of blog posts, we are looking into the business enablers of what is a new way of seeing your business by modelling information flow. The challenge that exists in the marketplace was described in this blog post; it is a challenge which is growing daily as the pace of change and the […]