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    Have you ever felt your workday is packed with unproductive meetings, remote or in person, and you don’t have time to do any real work? Don’t worry. You’re not alone. According to Asana’s Anatomy of Work Index, employees waste six working weeks each year on duplicated work and unnecessary meetings. A few weeks ago, Shopify...

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Core Transferable Skills Between a Consultant and Football Coach
Change Management | Innovation | Technology Consulting

Core Transferable Skills Between a Consultant and Football Coach

Professional sports and business can be very similar in many aspects: both value leadership, strategy, and competition. In both worlds, success comes from hard work and a committed team. With the right mentalities and company culture, a business can go a long way to drive growth and revenue. Unsurprisingly, sporting metaphors are so common in…

3 Steps to Building a Successful Process Automation Strategy
Business Process Management | Change Management | Innovation | Technology Consulting

3 Steps to Building a Successful Process Automation Strategy

Process Automation is considered a technology initiative of strategic importance as its operational benefits such as increased productivity, efficiency and accuracy are clearly visible to business leaders. However, we often see organisations failing in their automation initiatives because they have taken the leap with poor strategy and/or execution. We have developed a 3-step approach to…

Increase the Chances of Digital Transformation Success with an Agile Mindset
Change Management | Innovation | Technology Consulting

Increase the Chances of Digital Transformation Success with an Agile Mindset

Across industries, COVID-19 has accelerated the need to transform companies’ digital capabilities. While executives recognise the importance of digital transformation, not all organisations will be successful in their journey. In fact, according to a new report Flipping the Odds of Digital Transformation Success from Boston Consulting Group (BCG) 70% of digital transformations fail to meet…

Creating a Remote Ready Organisation
Change Management | Innovation

Creating a Remote Ready Organisation

Working from home is becoming more critical as companies try to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and minimise the disruptive impact the current situation is having on the economic activity and financial markets worldwide.  Twitter was one of the first companies to ask its entire workforce of 5,000 employees to work remotely for the…

Skills to Foster in a Stage of Constant Change and Technology Innovation
Change Management | Innovation | Technology Consulting

Skills to Foster in a Stage of Constant Change and Technology Innovation

As companies shift to compete in a digital world, organisations recognise that change is the new normal in business. Technology innovation, like artificial intelligence, automation, and robotics, are changing the fundamental nature of work. In 2019, Forrester predicts that automation will become the tip of the digital transformation spear, impacting everything from infrastructure to customers…

Summer Reading: 6 Books on Business, Innovation and Change
Change Management | Innovation

Summer Reading: 6 Books on Business, Innovation and Change

Summer is a great time to catch up on reading, whatever your plans, relaxing on the beach, taking a road trip, going hiking or a flying overseas to build a snowman in the southern hemisphere. Reading helps your brain process, inspire passions to refocus your priorities and goals and enables you to stay on top…

How to Drive Effective Change
Business Process Management | Change Management | Innovation

How to Drive Effective Change

Today, for companies to stay competitive, they need to innovate continuously. Transformation programs are triggered across all industries to meet new customers’ expectations, improve products, implement new technology and create agile organisation ready to adopt the innovation. Leading change initiatives is hard. Nearly 70 per cent of change programs fail to achieve their goals, proving…

7 Tips to Succeed in a Multi-Country Business Transformation Project
Change Management | Innovation

7 Tips to Succeed in a Multi-Country Business Transformation Project

We live and work in a period where technology is making us more connected; this interconnectivity means that the chances of being involved in international projects increase exponentially. Any given project represents a significant challenge for many reasons, no matter what the location: budgets, tight deadlines, sharing resources, among many others. If that project takes…

The Key Role CFOs Play in Business Transformation
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The Key Role CFOs Play in Business Transformation

Companies in the finance and leasing industry, focused on digital strategies and are looking to CFOs to help them develop the strategies needed to respond to technology innovation, build their business transformation plans and lead the change.  Making business transformation projects a reality is not easy. In today’s market, characterised by extraordinary urgency and tougher…