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Often technology strategies fail to resonate with their broader organisation. Earlier this month, I was chatting with an industry friend...

In March 2018, I spent a week at IMD in Switzerland completing a joint IMD and MIT program; ‘Driving Strategic Innovation’. A memorable...

In 2018 I incepted a business based on relationships, working with clients who shared the same values as me, and not being hell-bent on...

Here is an offsite agenda that several clients have benefited from with new leaders establishing their relationships with their...

At about 6 am one winter morning in 2021 at our local coffee shop, I was asked, "what precisely do you do?" I stumbled in my response,...

My wife and I wake on most mornings at six am and visit our favourite coffee shop, as do many other people. Over the past three years,...

There is so much going on and here is some of what I am thinking about. CYBER IQ Cyber-attacks continue to increase, “cyber partisans”...

‘If I had some idea of the finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?’ - Bill Gates Since the 31st of October, I...

'The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.’ - Jeff Bezos The ultimate digital business has customer...

‘In a digital world, the gift I give you almost always benefits me more than it costs.’ - Seth Godin There has been much talk of...

‘Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.’ - Larry Page The technology industry has many different types of people within...

"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." - Maya Angelou Tactical innovation occurs when leaders set a ‘problem...

How best can innovation be defined? Fifteen experts were asked, and an ultimate definition was ‘executing an idea which addresses a...

The term Remote Working conjures up a range of reactions for various reasons. Try replacing the word “REMOTE” with “RIGHT”; what is the...

The information on your LinkedIn profile and contained within your resume is static. But our world is a dynamic, content creating one, so...

"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So, you have to trust that the dots will...

Delayed action results in a greater future action. A slow rate of action will present a greater degree of future risk. When acting slow,...

Think of risk not as an activity but as a capability. Build the capability as it will allow your organisation to scale. Things may not go...

I am a resolute believer that organisations have idle capability within them; sometimes, those in leadership positions ‘talk at people’...

In 2021 the expectations of the technology team to contribute to future digital business models and demand for resources, will continue...