Building trust, and specifically digital trust, has been an ongoing challenge for many organisations. In certain companies, employees feel like they are not trusted, as highlighted by the historic reluctance of some organisations to allow employees to work from home. Recent events have [...]
In our most recent podcast episodes, we’ve been exploring the future of work and how it’s been influenced by the pandemic. Many of the changes prophesised years back are finally coming into effect because they’ve had to. People are finally being empowered to [...]
Where the rubber hits the road So you’re sponsoring a transformation programme and you and your team have spent the past six months setting up governance, understanding what needs to change, gathering requirements, selecting suppliers, building programme management and solution design capability, preparing [...]
NOT business as usual, please This is the seventh in our series of articles that consider why so many transformation initiatives fail and, more importantly, what can you do to improve your chances of success. Last week we considered the project and programme [...]
This is the sixth in our series of articles that consider why so many transformation initiatives fail and, more importantly, what can you do to improve your chances of success. Last week we looked at the different methodologies and approaches you can use to manage [...]
Why do so many transformation initiatives fail and, more importantly, what can you do to improve your chances of success? This is the fifth in our series of articles that seek to answer these questions. This week we look at which methodology is [...]
Strategic objectives, design principles and dangerous deviations So many aspects of functional transformation are unknown and unknowable when you begin. By their nature these programmes are disruptive, often formed in response to existential threats or urgent opportunities. Timelines can stretch well beyond the [...]
Destructive forces, burn rates and protecting scope There are three mistakes you can make in defining the governance structure of your functional transformation: Holding too much decision making at the top of the structure Pushing decision making too far down the structure Failing [...]
Welcome to the second in a series of articles that seek to answer the question of why so many transformation initiatives fail and provide practical guidance for success. Many transformation programmes mean changes to existing systems or potentially buying and implementing new technology. [...]
With the ever-increasing demands on organisations to change and transform, we seek to answer this question through a series of articles that give practical guidance for success.