Immersing Strategic Agility
A Leadership’s Must for Accelerating Business Model Renewal, to Prosper, and to achieve the Sustainability of the Business. Strategic discontinuities and disruptions usually call for changes in business models. But, over time, efficient organizations naturally evolve business models of increasing stability and therefore rigidity. A common question in leaders’ minds and in their leadership teams […]
Does the mission and purpose of your organization make you feel important?
Are you having a Great Employee Experience? The employee experience is the journey an employee takes with your organization. It is the sum of all interactions an employee has with an employer, from pre-recruitment to post-exit. It includes everything from major milestones and personal relationships to technology use and the physical work environment. All of […]
What triggers innovation?
There are different triggers for initiating an innovation process. They could include the ambition to develop new markets, to make use of new technologies, to create positive impact, to react to competition, customer needs or regulatory changes, or bottom-line improvements. The triggers are why a company wants to innovate, and there can be several of […]
Are you putting in place a Business Model Innovation for Sustainability?
Innovating a business model goes beyond product, service and/or technological innovation, or changes in single-function strategies such as the sales model. Through business model innovation, several elements of a business model are changed, allowing value to be delivered in new ways. When companies innovate for sustainable business models, sustainability issues and goals are incorporated into […]
Agility: An indispensable component for business to thrive!
Organizational agility is characterized by the flexibility and ease with which an organization restructures and modifies its practices and processes when faced with unprecedented changes in its environment. Most of the companies have been very complacent with its achievements and think that what has been working for years will continue working, however, definitely the world […]
Have a Meaning: Key Component of Competitive Advantage
A Generation Searching for Meaning By 2025 millennials (born between 1980 and 2000) will represent 75% of the workforce and many studies show that for this generation, having a clear purpose is no longer a “nice to have” or “feel good perk”; but an essential element in their career path. Growing up in a world […]
Customer happiness or efficiency? Superior Customer Experience or lowering costs?
How does your company respond to these questions? How would you respond? To adequately respond to these questions, you need a customer-company-connected-strategy that creates value by breaking the existing trade-offs between the value that a customer receives and the cost that the company incurs. The reward of a connected strategy is providing more value to […]
Why Authentic Leadership Development?
The True North Leadership Series – 2 Leading nowadays requires new skills. People in organizations have changed dramatically to the point where many will no longer tolerate nor accept the classic “command and control leaders”. Nor are they impressed by charismatic leaders whose leadership is based primarily on personal ego. Many of us have worked […]
Why Transformational Change? Some Useful Answers!
For companies to survive in this age, they need to have absolute clarity about the value they deliver to customers, the value to the business and to society. To provide that value, they need to think and implement new ways of doing business, need to develop better products and services, definitely need to have the […]
Organizational Agility as a Strategic Imperative
We are living in a time of great change. Bigger, faster, complex, cross-functional, and multi-disciplinary change. But at the same time, we are more connected and processing more information than we ever had in the past. To be successful in this environment of rapid, concurrent, and never-ending change, organizations must grow their change agility not […]
