Enterprise business transformation is only 26% successful. This is how you succeed!
Digital disruption and enterprise business transformation are hot topics. Most would agree that some level of transformation is needed. And that the need increases as change and disruption accelerate. If the speed of change in [...]
Purpose or Perish: Separating Fact from Fiction
I have never had a rant. And perhaps this isn't either. But close it. Direct and to the point on something I am passionate about, which is Purpose. Purpose in business is in vogue. [...]
To Platform or to Perish. That is the critical CEO question!
I have led transformation projects for 20 years. Across most industries. From the start of the Internet and the WWW to today's digital disruption. And each era between. They all hold one thing in common. [...]
Platform Scalability Beyond Reason
Platforms defy reason. We are used to 1:1 relationships in our analogue world. Put so much in and get that much out. But platforms do not operate on a multiplier of 1 but much higher. [...]
Are smart goals unusually dumb?
Everyone knows we need goals. Most of us have one. But is it the right one? And can it be measured? Let's begin with the latter. How to measure goals. Here we have few options, [...]
Sun Tzu – The Art of Transformation
The Art of Transformation Sun Tsu is one of the most influential thinkers ever. He is the grandfather of military strategy and created a new genre of strategic thinking and reasoning. About 2,500 years ago. [...]
Self-Disruption is Essential to be Agile
Benjamin Franklin said that only death and taxes can be certain. Heraclitus, 2,500 years before him, said that only change is certain. Today, it's more like only increasing change is certain. In addition to death and taxes [...]
Eastern Philosophy is your Unique Key to Digital Transformation
The principles of Eastern philosophy is like the digital world. And different to the principles of Western philosophy. In summary, they have little in common. We like to make comparisons. But we cannot compare them. [...]
Purpose is the Light that will Save your Business
Something important has changed Purpose was not taken seriously in the past. It wasn't needed. Life and business predictably went on, as planned. Then something happened. Change velocity suddenly increased and became disruptive. The era [...]
Enterprise Architecture is Dead. Long Live Agile Architecture!
The origin of Enterprise Architecture (EA) was created in the late 1980's, to overcome the challenges of information systems integration. Today there is still no formal definition, but a commonly accepted intent of EA, is to [...]
Change Management is Dead: Long Live Change Leadership
I remember back in the 1990's when I became a project manager. I especially remember my first project management course, in 1991, where the instructor dramatically announced that more than 50% of projects fail. [...]
