Digital Strategy Blog - Ade McCormack

Helping organisations thrive in the digital age.

The digital age is much more than the industrial era amped up on ‘tech steroids’. Ade McCormack’s Digital Strategy blog exists to help organisations thrive in the digital age.

Nov | 27 | 2018

Digital age leadership is different

Biz 4.0, Uncategorized digital-readiness

Digital age leadership is different to industrial era leadership. This leadership reset represents an opportunity for those with leadership aspirations. Recognising this I have spent the last year or so developing an online education service for digital age leaders. It comprises circa 100 micro-learning modules grouped into courses, along with quizzes and assignments to turn […]

Nov | 7 | 2018

Biotensegrity: It’s time for a strategic priority reset

Strategy, Transformation, Uncategorized anthropology, biotensegrity, organisation

Before we get into biotensegrity: We live in an increasingly uncertain and volatile world. One where being too adapted to one scenario, makes you weak in every other. For example: Functional impairment: A large tortoise turned upside down. Structural impairment: Your office building turned upside down. The same is so for fragile organisations. A dinner […]

Jun | 26 | 2018

8 skills for career success in the digital age

Performance skills, work

It’s no surprise that the robots are coming. Along with the algorithms, they are redefining the workplace, which in turn is redefining our role in the workplace. With such an uncertain future ahead, it would be a brave person that picks a career path today on the basis that the path will still exist in […]

May | 30 | 2018

We need to talk about your future

People c-suite, leadership, Talent

You are sitting there at work going through the motions in a meditative / zoned-out state, perhaps even enjoying the uninterrupted streak you are having in respect to getting things done. But then your boss drops by your desk and asks if you have time for a chat. Here it comes Your mind goes into […]

May | 15 | 2018

Is it time to kill the business?

Strategy, Transformation innovation

I am a firm believer that organisational transformation, not simply change, is a bad move. Overhauling business models will just unsettle your people and put your existing cash flows at risk. Swapping from a business that works, at least for now, to something else that might work is akin to betting the farm. Parallel universes […]

May | 11 | 2018

Business focus: Don’t do it!

Strategy attention, cognitive

Many parents lament at their children’s distractibility. Their ability to play Call of Duty in team mode, whilst catching up on Netflix is both amazing and bewildering to witness if you are above a certain age. That they are concurrently keeping track of their social feeds on another device is incredible. How shallow! One might […]

May | 2 | 2018

How to create a truly adaptive organisation

Strategy, Transformation adaptability, factory

Variables are the new constants It’s no surprise that the current annual dream-plan-execute model of organisational strategy is no longer fit for purpose. To work, it necessitated a world where there were many constants and few variables. Today, there are very few constants, so those who operate their organisations in this manner might as well […]

Apr | 26 | 2018

7 strategies to avoid being a ‘Prime’ target

Strategy cognitive, data, market

Data day business Unless you lead Amazon or one of the major data-guzzling market titans, your business is in one or three states: Being digested by Amazon. Been obliterated by Amazon. Wondering when either of the previous will happen to your business / sector. Amazon has played a long game. They have smartly focused on […]

Apr | 19 | 2018

6 steps to success in the cognitive age

People, Strategy cognitive

Digital fatigue? I would not be surprised if you are suffering from digital fatigue. Digital this, digital that. Disrupt here, transform there. My sense is that we are hitting ‘peak digital’, a result brought about by over-usage of the term coupled with under-execution by those in positions of authority. This is exacerbated by a general […]

Apr | 10 | 2018

Career obstacles: Avoid total wipe out

Performance career, cognitive

Have you ever watched the assault course game show Ninja Warrior? It’s the ultimate obstacle course race. The competitors demonstrate athleticism and bravery as they climb, leap and swing between various platforms designed such that only those with Spiderman DNA can avoid an early and murky bath. Some of us went to schools that had […]

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