We’ve all seen a transformation program fail or go off the rails. Although difficult, now more than ever, our organisations need to successfully transform. That’s because despite the massive disruption we’ve collectively experienced over the last several years, we’ve not yet reached “peak change.” Global forces such as Artificial Intelligence,...

It’s become empirically obvious to every executive that the world is changing, and that this change is accelerating.  Artificial Intelligence is disrupting business models across retail, banking, insurance, health, and professional services, and everything in between. Climate change will force the rethink of manufacturing, construction, transport logistics, mining and aviation....

My observation over three decades working as a CEO, big-4 bank CIO, and management consultant is that most organizations have a strong inbuilt default to maintaining their traditional ways of doing things. This isn’t surprising because I imagine we’ve all heard stories about how difficult it is to truly transform...

We live in an incredible time of disruption, change, and opportunity. We've not reached 'peak change' yet, and the combined weight of several different forces – including artificial intelligence, climate change, geo-political forces, technology development, and other macro and industry trends – means that this pace of disruption is likely to...

It’s become a truism of corporate life that transformation is difficult. According to Harvard Business Review, over 70-80% of transformation projects fail, and reflecting on my thirty years of leading change there’s clearly a gap between developing a strategy and successfully implementing the organizational changes required to make it a...

Given the variety of different forces impacting companies, such as the rapid take up of artificial intelligence, geopolitics impacting supply chains, inflation putting upward pressure on interest rates and employment costs and technology change inspiring new business models, it’s become obvious that most will need to transform to remain profitable....

There are many technology, geopolitical and commercial forces currently impacting our organisations and pressuring existing business models and mindsets. Many organisations will need to transform, and these programs will require clear and effective governance. Before proceeding too far, let’s agree a definition for transformation. True transformation requires the presence of...