Category: Business Management

What Happens When Data Stops Being Strategic Power
Posted in Business Management Business Transformation

What Happens When Data Stops Being Strategic Power?

For years, organisations and governments have treated data as a strategic asset. More information creates greater insight. Greater insight improves… read more What Happens When Data Stops Being Strategic Power?

What If My Customer’s Behaviour Wasn’t Part of My Business Model
Posted in Business Management Business Transformation Change Management

What If My Customer’s Behaviour Wasn’t Part of My Business Model

For much of the digital economy, the customer relationship has expanded far beyond the original transaction. Someone buys something. But… read more What If My Customer’s Behaviour Wasn’t Part of My Business Model

Does Accountability Require Everyone to See Everything
Posted in Business Management Business Transformation Change Management

Does Accountability Require Everyone to See Everything?

Organisations need accountability. Someone needs to make decisions. Someone needs the authority to act. Someone needs to own the outcome… read more Does Accountability Require Everyone to See Everything?

What If Knowing Less About Me Was Better for Business?
Posted in Better Business Business Management Business Transformation Digital Transformation e-Commerce

What If Knowing Less About Me Was Better for Business?

For decades, digital business has been moving in one direction. Know more about the customer. Collect more data. Build richer… read more What If Knowing Less About Me Was Better for Business?

Why Do We Assume Organisations Need To See Everything?
Posted in Business Management Business Strategy Consulting Future of Work

Why Do We Assume Organisations Need To See Everything?

Modern organisations are built around visibility. We monitor. We analyse. We track. We measure. We justify these activities as necessary… read more Why Do We Assume Organisations Need To See Everything?

Business concept of success and an innovative individual with a different way to succeed using advanced technology as a 3D illustration .
Posted in Asset portfolio management Banking e-Commerce Financial Services Investment Management Transformation Projects

Daily P&L for Finance Risk and London Markets

Some people may be astonished to know that daily profit and loss (P&L) exists let alone the capability to delivery… read more Daily P&L for Finance Risk and London Markets

A short guide to Agile Transformation
Posted in Agile Agile Transformation Business Management Future of Work

Agile Transformation

The book about Agile Transformation is not theories but real consultancy refined by the experience of working in enterprises with… read more Agile Transformation

Business Agility Agile World
Posted in Business Agility Business Management Business Transformation Organisational Design Workplace Culture

Ways of Working Organizational Design Service launched Agile World Inc.

Agile World offers the service of organizational design consultancy, to meticulously define and organize the structure of companies, create job titles, and allocate resources (i.e. personnel) to improve efficiency and increase productivity including ROI.

Posted in Disruptive innovation Executive Management Thought Leadership Unicorns

Innovation is a Cultural Action

Having a strategy in business is critical, but a business without a focus on innovation and an understanding of how to do it efficiently and effectively won’t survive. This articles talk about quick innovation being based on truth.

Posted in Business Bullying Workplace Culture

Business Bullies and the Modern Workplace

Bullying has victims and is a crime against humanity. This article focuses on victims identifying the experiences that indicate they are the subject of bullying.

Posted in Leadership Unicorns

True Leaders grow up Emotionally

As leaders we often review our actions against our intent, sometimes we are assured we did the right thing, other times we accept we did not and more often than most people want to admit we bluff our way through and hope no one noticed (they always do).

DevOps Maturity Ideas to Value
Posted in Agile Business DevOps Business Management DevOps Enterprise DevOps MVE Scaled DevOps

Speeding up the Wrong Work DevOps Maturity in Business Decisions #BusinessAgility

It’s a fact that common sense it not that common and is often not a factor except in reflection after… read more Speeding up the Wrong Work DevOps Maturity in Business Decisions #BusinessAgility

Posted in Analytics Artificial Intelligence Business Management Smart Living

#DigitalBusiness and #AI should use Hegelian Logic to find very different and valuable customer insights

There is a continuous drive for human to be more like machines, but the problem is they are not. No… read more #DigitalBusiness and #AI should use Hegelian Logic to find very different and valuable customer insights

Posted in Asset portfolio management Blockchain Business Management Business Transformation Disruptive innovation Investment Management

#Blockchain end to financial services and banking #STP and #BPO Accounting?

In the same way that digital downloads has crippled the mass market of vinyl and CD’s does Blockchain means the… read more #Blockchain end to financial services and banking #STP and #BPO Accounting?

Posted in Pervasive UX Research Unicorns Usability User Experience (UX)

5 User Experience (Customer Journey) lies, damn lies and absolute myths

1. Anyone can do user experience, nope! I meet a lot of people claiming to do user experience, process and deliverables aside,… read more 5 User Experience (Customer Journey) lies, damn lies and absolute myths

Posted in Asset portfolio management Banking Business Management Digital Strategy Disruptive innovation Financial Services Future Investment Management

Smart Living or as we might live with artificial intelligence and an open IoT in a new reality

I tend to think of myself as a futurist, I immediately see the possibilities of technologies as part of a… read more Smart Living or as we might live with artificial intelligence and an open IoT in a new reality

Humanity in Digital Landscapes
Posted in Agile Change Management Committee Conference Customer experience Human Centred Design (HCD) Lean Mobile Research Speaking Transformation Projects Usability User Experience (UX) What is user experience (UX)

UCD2015 Conference Speakers Humanity in Digital Landscapes

UCD2015 Conference 23rd & 24th October, Deans Mews, 11-13 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0AN. We are delighted to confirm… [Keynote] The Joys and Sorrows… read more UCD2015 Conference Speakers Humanity in Digital Landscapes

Posted in Agile Business Management Competitive Advantage Digital Strategy Research User Experience (UX) User experience benefits

Can real #UX be done in a #global #consultancy?

As with Agile, UX has suffered fools having a go and failing. Focusing on titles, roles, activities or outputs misses… read more Can real #UX be done in a #global #consultancy?

Investor High Level Processes
Posted in Asset portfolio management Banking Change Management Competitive Advantage Customer experience Financial Modelling Investment Banking Investment Management Lean On boarding Policy Private Equity Private investment Transformation Projects

#Strategic and #lean #thinking in private investment and asset portfolio participants part 2

There are several types of on boarding that relate to both business and investors structure and size, their specific purpose… read more #Strategic and #lean #thinking in private investment and asset portfolio participants part 2

Posted in Banking Business Management Change Management Financial Services Hedget Funds Investment Banking Investment Management Lean Private Equity Private investment Program Management Transformation Projects Venture Capital

Five most #common #failures of business #change and #transformation projects

Ever since transformation and change were linked to technology some of the worst parts of both have been combined on… read more Five most #common #failures of business #change and #transformation projects

reach and richness in analytics
Posted in Analytics Competitive Advantage e-Commerce Holistic user experience

Do #eCommerce #analytics prove #customer #affiliation?

Analytics for e-Commerce can be split between two contrasting and not necessarily companion aspects. analytics of success in terms of market… read more Do #eCommerce #analytics prove #customer #affiliation?

Design thinking in User Experience
Posted in Agile Usability User Experience (UX) User experience benefits What is user experience (UX)

5 #UX #lies, damn lies and absolute #myths

1. Anyone can do user experience, nope! I meet a lot of people claiming to do user experience, process and… read more 5 #UX #lies, damn lies and absolute #myths

Information Systems
Posted in Educational Publishing Information Architecture IA Investment Banking

#Information #Architecture (IA) the #classification of #information Part 2

Given the response from the last post I’m going to take the educational publishing example a bit further, if I… read more #Information #Architecture (IA) the #classification of #information Part 2

Posted in Agile Business Management Change Management Investment Banking

Save 35% ££ on banking change, requirements gathering should take no more than six months

Requirements gathering in Banking change programs are over detailed, over long and for the most part undeliverable. There is and… read more Save 35% ££ on banking change, requirements gathering should take no more than six months