…a lack of curiosity in your business will kill you! Being curious is hard work. It often means that you are following trains of thought or activity which deviate from the accepted norm, especially within your business. There are 128 accepted human values in the world. Of these, only 11 drive curiosity. Of these, you […]
What’s Information Waste? How much is Information Waste costing your business? It might help to first define Information Waste: Information waste: resources that are being applied to low-value activities These examples will help to illustrate that definition: Information Supply Chains that support no Business Outcome– “we process this information because that’s what we’ve always done” […]
One of the most common responses I get when I ask the question “Why do you follow those specific steps in that process?” is “Because we’ve always done it that way” Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Murray Hopper, a pioneering computer scientist whose work was central to the development of COBOL, is purported to have said […]
Information Flow matters to your business. If you don’t believe me, here’s a challenge. Ask these questions about your organisation: How does it use Information? How do decisions about Digitisation get made? What’s the most valuable Information Asset? Only a few organisations are in the information business. These information-centric entities sell information as their primary […]
Any change or business transformation is based on a cascade of decisions from the most strategic level all the way down to the ultra-tactical “what am I working on today”. When there’s a decision disconnect between strategic vision and tactical activity, it’s little wonder change falters. The more strategic the change aspiration, the more the […]