Are you a hall of famer? Despite the steady growth of the ‘digitally hapless hall of fame’, whose honourees include GE, Kodak, Toys R Us and Nokia, many business leaders are pressing on with their industrial era business models as if we had just hit ‘peak-Victorian. Unfortunately for these leaders, the golden age of ‘synthetic […]
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 […]
Welcome to the second post in the Biz 4.0 series. In the last post, I set the scene in respect of how the world is changing and how we need to raise / transform our game to stay in play. In this post I am going to outline the Biz 4.0 organisational transformation model, which […]
This post is the eighth in the series of Biz 4.0 posts; the aim of which is to address misunderstandings in respect of digital transformation and to provide guidance on how to succeed in the digital age. In the previous post, we looked at the importance of ensuring your people were onboard in respect of […]
Like everything else, work in the digital age is subject to disruption. Take this scenario: You have worked hard. But that was never a problem because you are passionate about your goals. In many respects, you have designed your own personal hands-on MBA through a mixture of formal education and real-world experience. So you are […]
The future of work The clock speed of business and society is on the rise. So much so that strategy and tactics are converging, as are the present and the future. Thus, the future of work is not an abstract concept reserved for discussions about the future working lives of those born today. Post-industrial work […]
For many, the digital age is simply the industrial era ‘amped up’ on tech steroids. Perhaps marked by the IT industry’s coming of age as new technology became as much part of the social fabric as it was in the world of business. But that doesn’t really cover it. So, what is the digital age? […]
Many people use the term ‘digital’ without really considering what they mean. I see it all the time amongst senior executives. Possibly it is a term they use when they want to talk about IT, but don’t want to involve the IT function! When I started out as a software engineer, IT and digital were […]
Given that the very notion of work is morphing, as we wave goodbye to the industrial age, you might be forgiven for thinking that such a guide would be something of an anachronism. It can also be thought of as a survival guide, because they are one and the same in the digital age. Firstly, […]
To set the scene, let’s go back a century, or two. Back then, for many of us, the opportunity to become part of the emerging industrial era, and ‘share’ in its economic spoils was very attractive. Farming was a little too unpredictable (too many environmental and market variables), as was being an artisan (having to […]