Transformation Professionals

An increasing number of leaders know that to accelerate digital transformation their organisations should learn to flex their empathic muscle, while at the same time encode empathy in Artificial Intelligence. Following the launch of his latest book “Heartificial Empathy” Minter Dial elaborates on the role empathy plays in digital transformation, its importance for business executives, and how orga...

If you walked into 10 organisations tomorrow that claim to be undergoing transformation and looked at what their initiatives are intended to achieve, you’re likely to learn that some of what's claimed to be transformation is rather fake - and little more than a technology upgrade or a business change project.   While change is important because it makes improvements on what already exists, tr...

Benefits are often colourfully painted in a business case to secure funding. But once those funds are secured, the very people who did a splendid job of selling the benefits to those who held the keys to the budget rarely report on those benefits. A good benefits management strategy describes the process used for monitoring, reporting, realising and assessing business benefits right throughout a t...

Whereas traditional business has been done by one company selling products and services to a customer, the platform changes the traditional dynamics of doing business. Platforms uncover new sources of supply and demand and create network effects. This empowers exponential numbers of buyers and sellers to engage through the platform. The more users on the platform, the more powerful and valuable it...

Disruption is an opportunity for those with the right mindset but a threat to the rest. With recent advances in technology, the possibilities to innovate and disrupt are greater than ever, regardless of size.  🏛 Join the FREE Enterprise Transformation & AI Hub → cxotransform.com/p/hub 🔍 Follow Rob Llewellyn on LinkedIn → in/robllewellyn 🎥 Watch Rob’s enterprise transformation videos → youtub...

Conversational AI combines natural language processing with machine learning.  While still in its infancy, it can already provide a very a cost-efficient solution for many business processes.  The rise of conversational AI is set to drive one of the most significant platform paradigm shifts of the decade as it prepares to revolutionize a variety of industries.  🏛 Join the FREE Enterprise Transform...

Changing business outcomes requires people processes to change. The problem for many organisations is that they think new technology will do that, which is one reason why change and transformation initiatives have been failing for decades. Max Blumberg - a visiting Professor at Leeds University Business School - explains why you’d better get input from people on what changes would be acceptable an...

Using new technology to create a better version of the past is very different to using it to create a new future. Which is the difference between the innovative use of digital, and digital sugar coating.  The Digital Capability Framework is a strategic management tool designed to help companies innovate and orchestrate digitally enabled business transformation.  It helps assess the current situati...

There’s never been a need for organisational change management and a focus on the people side of change more than today, but a lot of organisations still struggle with it. 🏛 Join the FREE Enterprise Transformation & AI Hub → cxotransform.com/p/hub 🔍 Follow Rob Llewellyn on LinkedIn → in/robllewellyn 🎥 Watch Rob’s enterprise transformation videos → youtube.com/@cxofm 🎙 Part of the Digital Tra...

For leaders to build a remarkable, profitable digital business, and leverage their digital assets with their unique audience, their business needs to be connected to their entire digital ecosystem.  🏛 Join the FREE Enterprise Transformation & AI Hub → cxotransform.com/p/hub 🔍 Follow Rob Llewellyn on LinkedIn → in/robllewellyn 🎥 Watch Rob’s enterprise transformation videos → youtube.com/@cxof...

The strength of a transformation certification is based on a fundamental trust that a person who receives that credential has proven they possess the knowledge required to undertake a particular transformation role.  With certification, everyone (except the un-certified) wins.  🏛 Join the FREE Enterprise Transformation & AI Hub → cxotransform.com/p/hub 🔍 Follow Rob Llewellyn on LinkedIn → in/...

One characteristic of modern business ecosystems is that they scale efficiently. They don’t add proportionally more cost as they grow and they allow the underlying platform to create value. But why isn’t this incredibly powerful business model part of more transformation efforts? Haydn Shaughnessy, author of the book Shift - A Leader's Guide to the Platform Economy, explains how new market dy...

Back a number of years ago I helped the low-code software platform company Mendix, while they were developing their digital transformation practice.  A few years later, Siemens bought Mendix for $730 million, which was pretty good for a company started in 2005 by three young guys in the Netherlands.  I want to share one of the great approaches that Mendix developed, which any transformation focuse...

🏛 Join the FREE Enterprise Transformation & AI Hub → cxotransform.com/p/hub 🔍 Follow Rob Llewellyn on LinkedIn → in/robllewellyn 🎥 Watch Rob’s enterprise transformation videos → youtube.com/@cxofm 🎙 Part of the Digital Transformation Broadcast Network (DTBN)

The view of transformation and change can often be one-sided as it takes on the language of the originator and doesn't translate well to those who don't understand that language. This means that a breakdown in communication can happen very quickly. Andrew Ward elaborates on ‘The Layers of Change’, which is a way to model a change so we can all understand it, whether you're from a UX...

It’s important that transformation leaders envisage a new future, ensure the organisation is equipped to build that future, and then orchestrate the entire effort in a way that works as it needs to. 🏛 Join the FREE Enterprise Transformation & AI Hub → cxotransform.com/p/hub 🔍 Follow Rob Llewellyn on LinkedIn → in/robllewellyn 🎥 Watch Rob’s enterprise transformation videos → youtube.com/@cxof...

Neil Perkin and Peter Abraham describe how the components Velocity and Focus combine to create a formula that leaders can use to achieve business agility and position themselves to be competitive. 🏛 Join the FREE Enterprise Transformation & AI Hub → cxotransform.com/p/hub 🔍 Follow Rob Llewellyn on LinkedIn → in/robllewellyn 🎥 Watch Rob’s enterprise transformation videos → youtube.com/@cxofm...

It’s important that transformation leaders manage the risks that relate to the process of transforming their organisation towards a new future, including the risks that relate more to the possibility that the desired state becomes obsolete, ineffective, or unachievable. 🏛 Join the FREE Enterprise Transformation & AI Hub → cxotransform.com/p/hub 🔍 Follow Rob Llewellyn on LinkedIn → in/robllewe...

Most organisations fail at innovation because they fail at change. They aspire to innovate but often struggle and continue to lose pace along the fast-moving business landscape. Two-time author Braden Kelley is a Director of Innovation and Human-Centered Problem-Solving at Oracle and he shares some ways organisations can get better at innovation, change, and transformation. 🏛 Join the FREE Enterpr...

Gone are the days when you could steer a business on gut feel and hunches. Because data is the new driver of the best firms, and authentic digital economy leaders know this. Which is why competitive intelligence is vital for competitive strategy. 🏛 Join the FREE Enterprise Transformation & AI Hub → cxotransform.com/p/hub 🔍 Follow Rob Llewellyn on LinkedIn → in/robllewellyn 🎥 Watch Rob’s ente...

Throughout history, great leaders have worked hard to create change, but not all have succeeded. In recent years – often labeled as digital transformation – that aspiration has spread like wildfire across the corporate landscape. Greg Satell has explored the parallels between revolutionaries, corporate turnaround artists, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, and social visionaries, to discover that by ha...

Innovation is the process of turning ideas into value. So the question all companies need to be able to answer is “what is our innovation process?” After all, innovation is a function within a company, and as with all functions, it requires structure and process. 🏛 Join the FREE Enterprise Transformation & AI Hub → cxotransform.com/p/hub 🔍 Follow Rob Llewellyn on LinkedIn → in/robllewellyn 🎥...

Digital transformation in large and complex organisations continues to challenge even the best traditional managers and leaders – often because they still rely on old ways of thinking and working. Roland Deiser is a Drucker Senior Fellow and, in this episode, he touches on three distinct arenas in which digital transformation happens, along with the ambidexterity challenge and agile architectures....

The Business Transformation Management Methodology (BTM²) is a four-phase holistic and integrated business transformation management methodology. BTM² was the world's first holistic business transformation management methodology that provides a framework with clear phases, deliverables and corresponding methods. It was developed by Professor Dr. Axel Uhl, University of Applied Sciences Luzern...

Delivering digital transformation in government is particularly hard and extremely important. Jack Perschke talks to Rob Llewellyn about some of his experiences and picks out some key dos and don’ts. 🏛 Join the FREE Enterprise Transformation & AI Hub → cxotransform.com/p/hub 🔍 Follow Rob Llewellyn on LinkedIn → in/robllewellyn 🎥 Watch Rob’s enterprise transformation videos → youtube.com/@cxo...