I recently spoke to a financial services company about digital disruption in the banking sector. I was able to speak with some confidence about Zopa that is a would be disruptor for both savings and borrowing as I signed up …
Disruptive innovation in financial markets – social trading from eToro Read more »
This week I watched a webinar. I don’t really want to tell you about it though. Sometimes we come across something that is so amazing that we just have to tell others. We Tweet about it, email co-workers, and tell …
Strategy assessment: Quality, value and momentum Read more »
CIOs are destined to play a pivotal leadership role in the transformation of business to a digital business. The nature of business is changing and, in turn, the technology investment priorities of the past must change. The report – Unleash …
Last week I released a blog post and spoke at the Planning Forum’s annual conference. In both settings I challenged the audience to break down silos to improve the customer experience. A tough challenge.
Many businesses consider using open source software as a means of keeping software license fees low. The selection of Drupal instead of Adobe CQ or Sitecore makes eminent sense if you’re primary intention is to keep the cost base low. …
Open source business models – OpenCall Case Study Read more »
Frameworks, models, charts and matrices. I love ’em! This classic framework is a great place to start when organising teams around a digital strategy. It’s taken from Peter Scholtes’ The Leader’s Handbook. The framework defines the components of an organisational …
Digital Strategy Frameworks: Organisational Design Read more »
Digital is a catalyst for business improvement and innovation based around technology, a mind-set and a methodology which remove physical limitations in reaching and serving customers.
October has been a month of change. After just over two years at Capgemini I decided to make the move to join CACI as their Head of Digital Consulting. Given that I’m quite outspoken about digital marketing and business I …
With the first draft of my dissertation completed I’m finding that I now have time to read what I choose to read. I’d expected the MBA program to tire me of reading, but it’s quite the opposite. Over the last …
There is a theory established by Clayton Christiansen that demonstrates how disruptive innovations not only enter markets but how they can topple or seriously wound incumbent businesses. Disrupters achieve this by creating new markets or by creating new low cost …