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In Digital Business persuasion, FOMO might be better than Disruption
Sometimes I think Clayton Christensen’s great work on disruptive innovation has become almost too successful. In recent years, protagonists inside companies, urging digital change, have come to rely...
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Digital to the Core – Force 2: Compound Uncertainty
In our book Digital to the Core, Graham and I identify three digital macro forces that are compelling businesses and whole industries to change. These technology related forces are powerful enough to...
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CEOs: before calling for more digital innovation – answer 3 essential questions.
Issuing a vague call for more digital innovation without thinking how your people are likely to respond to it, could do more harm than good. Listen above or read below, the same text. Recently I was...
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A new year’s resolution for leaders: take digital to the core in 2016
It is December 31st 2015 and like many people I am thinking about my New Year’s resolutions. Some people think that they are a waste of time – but resolutions seem to work well enough for Marc...
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The CIO’s Resolutions for 2016 – it’s never too late to improve.
Do you believe New Year’s resolutions are too old fashioned – too analogue – for the digital age? Marc Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook doesn’t think so. He sets himself a major new self-development...
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Try working with the startup world to take Digital to the Core at your company
Even if they have reasonably good strategies and an intent to commit investment, many medium and large conventional corporations in traditional industries still struggle to advance their digital...
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Is the lack of digital talent a comment on your leadership?
Recently, Graham Waller and I ran a couple of online Gartner webinars about digital business leadership. As usual for those sessions, we operated several live polls of the online audience, interspersed...
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To become a digital business the entire executive team must be fully engaged.
I recently gave a talk about digital business to some country business unit managing directors and other senior executives of a large global group company. Afterwards, the legal officer remarked to me...
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CEOs take note – Nespresso is Digital to the Core
In early March 2016 one the business world’s most admired companies introduced something rather special. 40 years after the invention of the Nespresso machine, the latest models are going digital. It’s...
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Scaling drives digital to the core at McDonalds
My local McDonalds is closing. Only for a week though – they are doing a refit. The printed flyers (leaflets) that explain the reasons to customers, make two promises. First, the food will be fresher....
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CEOs should treat Brexit as the first big shock of the big data era
The average age of large company chief executives is over 50. That means they have seen and navigated quite a few global economic and macro environment shock moments through their managerial careers...
View ArticleCEOs realise Brexit will be a slowmo skyfall
Brexit is fairly drastic economic and political surgery. In the long term it might be good for UK business. In the mid-term, it will hurt. Gartner is not an economic forecasting house. Our goal is to...
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If Brexit was on a hype cycle, what might it look like?
“We got through the Great Fire of London, The Plague, The Blitz and Lehman Brothers and I’m sure we can survive Brexit” – it is reported that the deputy major for business said at a London Fintech...
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CEOs might leapfrog to go Digital to the Core
Over the past couple of months I have been in a few executive conversations where a new digital business strategy thought has been coming up. Some business leaders think their company is so far behind...
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When Will We Reach Business Techquilibrium?
Over the years, since the end of the financial crisis – like many others I have been watching and analyzing the digital awakening of the conventional corporate world. First they pondered the Kodak...
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Why are CEOs not driving productivity?
Economists across the world are both puzzled and concerned about an apparent dip in long term productivity growth. Their worries are giving rise to frequent business news editorials about the issue. It...
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Ten Video Examples of Digital Product Remastery
As we have said many times over the last few years: every industry will be digitally remastered. That means its products and services will become significantly digital. The digital proportion of what...
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What’s most important to digital business success?
“What do you think is the single most important factor for digital business success?”. I was asked that question recently. It was half way up a mountain, at an executive retreat in a beautiful meeting...
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CEOs – Use Three Questions To Find Your Leapfrog Digital Business Strategy
Recently I read a business news article about a techquisition. A large traditional model company bought a smaller online-only company that had invaded its sector. They paid a high price. The writer...
View ArticleThree questions CEOs should ask on the iPhone’s 10th birthday
Reading the tech news today, I learned that it is the 10th anniversary of the launch of the first Apple iPhone. That decade really did fly past quickly didn’t it? I remember the decade before that as...
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