Tag: Transformation
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How Work Will Transform for Better or Worse…?
A big question mark hanging over the plans of executives, workers, commercial property managers, and hospitality venues/retail around business districts is: “What is the future of (office) work?”[1] We have some thoughts, mostly on the employee-driven side of change. This gets the most airtime—as though office workers suddenly have excess leverage. Maybe they…
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Transformation is not just a buzzword anymore
I’m often asked—told, really: “Transformation’s just a buzzword.” (You have to imagine the rising intonation and modifier before “buzzword” yourself.) Typically, it’s right after I disclose what I do to a middle ranking corporate or government manager. I have no choice but to say, “It certainly can be.” Digital transformation got us started… …
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7 Powerful Transformation Trends in 2023
In 2023, expect to see several transformation trends emerge to shape the way organizations deal with their changing worlds. As the world rapidly changes and evolves, so too businesses must adapt to stay competitive and relevant, let alone successful in the face of shifting market dynamics, customer demands, and technological advancements. 1. Digital Transformation This…
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Rome was not transformed… in a day
This is an op-ed piece originally published in Canadian Government Executive in January 2018. It suggests that government stick with its transformation initiatives though they may be hard. (715 words; 3 min read) Like any other consultant and successful business book writer, I pontificate like an oracle at Delphi. In my case, about digital transformation.…
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Who says government can’t innovate?
In fact, we’d be lost without it. Op-Ed article printed in The Ottawa Citizen The New York Times carried a story earlier this month, Energy Idea for Mars Yields a Clue for Powering Data Centers, that accidentally challenges a common private-sector saw that government can’t innovate. Not only can it, we would be lost without it.…
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Just One Thing
The Secret to Transformation The real secret of successful transformation is not a set of instructions. It is flexible, universal, and works with any method at any level. The most successful changes make a single, valuable change correctly; the least are those that try to fix intractable problems by addressing everything. Adaptive Transformation™ is the…
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Prepare for Quantum Business
Sweat the small stuff… The shift from analog to digital is just now truly transforming business. Today’s discontinuous digital reinvention acknowledges that the mechanical innards must be ripped out and replaced. What’s coming will make the new economy disruptions seem quaint. The calculus of digital means we have to continually sweat the small stuff.. What…
