How do you measure success in digital? Five metrics for CEOs
As organizations launch more and more digital initiatives, CEOs must monitor whether they are delivering business results. These metrics are ones to watch.
In a time of seemingly nonstop digital disruptions, which have only accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic, the business imperative to embrace digital, data, and analytics is widely understood. The link to ...
How boards can help digital transformations
Boards can add value to their business’s digital transformation in five specific areas.
Few board directors would dispute the importance of digital and how it’s fundamentally reshaping the competitive landscape in almost every sector. But many of those we speak to are uncertain about what their role should be in helping ...
Agile Transformation Office (ATO) is the new Project Management Office (PMO)
This structure defines goals, ensures that agility’s principles stick, and keeps the focus on value. Three design decisions are key:
Agree on the ATO’s purpose and mandate
Define the ATO’s reporting structure and its place within the organization
Determine the ATO’s roles and responsibilities
For years now, companies across industries, bent on ...
How to Successfully Scale a Flat Organisation
Many startups today have adopted a “self-directed” model, which includes flat organizational structures, minimal hierarchy, self-management, and an emphasis on empowerment. When these companies are small, this model confers all sorts of advantages. But it’s hard for companies to stick to that model when they grow and scale. Some companies ...
The best business leaders use these 3 mindsets to unlock growth
Develop your leadership skills by building an optimum mentality, distinct values, and a greater purpose than yourself.
Great business leadership involves improving yourself first, which has an effect on everyone around you. High-performing company executives concentrate on their long-term goals, personal principles, and reason for existing. Optimised company leaders achieve this ...
How Small and Medium Sized Businesses Can Remain Resilient
Despite unprecedented challenges, many small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) around the world have demonstrated remarkable resilience and adaptability.
The Covid-19 crisis exposed significant disparities in the fortunes of various small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Well-capitalised startups have fared better than cash-strapped community businesses; manufacturers of personal protective equipment have seen unprecedented ...