Tag: transformation

February 24, 2023

High tech firms and software companies are highly digitized by nature. Yet several industries are still undergoing a transformation journey, which includes digitally enabling client-facing product and service portfolios. The motivations to digitize client-facing solutions vary but are often both […]

January 24, 2022

In his 30-plus-year career, Richard Wiedenbeck has run the bases on business roles. He’s been a program manager, headed up business development, served as the president of a project consulting company, and even earned a near six-figure salary as a […]

January 14, 2022

Despite the billions of dollars and countless man-hours being channeled into digital transformation, too many companies are spinning their wheels, buried in petabytes of unusable data. As a result, many are saddled with initiatives that do little to advance the […]

July 20, 2021

Just as a happy and motivated IT team tends to be efficient, innovative, and highly productive, a toxic staff is destined to bicker, miss goals, and experience the sort of disruption that has nothing to do with positive transformation. Toxic […]

May 19, 2021

IDG’s 2021 State of the CIO survey was conducted in the wake of 2020’s unprecedented business disruptions around the globe. The survey found that – among other impacts – the pandemic cemented the CIO’s strategic business role, as organizations turned […]

July 21, 2020

“Transformation” is a fuzzy term. What does it mean? What does it entail? What does it require? The fact is, the meaning of transformation differs from business to business. What it entails is as unique as each company’s goals and […]

July 6, 2020

Transformation accelerates when leaders enroll everyone in a mission to overcome needless delay. My first article explored the first of three patterns for success leading the way to a better, next normal–build conviction, not consensus. The second is to embrace […]

May 29, 2020

The history of manufacturing is marked with major transformations brought by new technologies. The First Industrial Revolution captured the power of water and steam. The Second Revolution brought electric power to the factory, and the Third brought computerized automation. Today […]

December 17, 2019

Do you know the one thing that you have to change in your organization in 2020? Will you focus on developing new products and services? Surely that’s a critical place to start, especially for the growing number of companies that […]

July 15, 2019

“Everyone needs a side hustle.” This sage piece of advice came from my millennial niece as she explained why she was joining a social media-powered, network marketing-based fitness program. Her statement came amid a ranging conversation about the nature of […]

September 6, 2018

Think about the most common reason you find yourself reaching out to customer service in banking: it’s rarely good news. Much of the time it’s to resolve a problem, and you’re likely not having a good customer experience. As much […]

June 25, 2018

Why is digital transformation still a big deal? It has been on the radar for at least five years, and yet the majority of CEO’s are still saying that projects or transformation initiatives are underway to make their organizations more […]

June 15, 2018

If you’re a regular reader of my column, you’ll know that I write a lot about best practices in corporate innovation and associated strategic themes, techniques and approaches for establishing world-class programs. While we can learn a lot from studying […]

March 30, 2018

Year one of a digital transformation program has its challenges. To get a transformation started, CIOs must get an executive team to formulate a strategy, agree on the program’s leadership, and establish a budget. There needs to be agreement on […]