Tag: Transformation

Innovation, transformation

Starting a Digital Transformation Journey

Premise: It seems like there can’t be a day that goes by when I don’t hear the word transformation being tossed around, usually with the prefix – Digital. At a deep level, I think everyone knows and understands that transformation of any kind is not only difficult but in most cases has an extremely low probability of success. The term digital transformation is a misnomer which has quite a lot of people confused. It is first and foremost transformation, of course enabled by digital technologies but people confuse this with digital becoming the operating word instead of transformation. This is […]

Ideas, transformation

Book Review – The Disruption Mindset by Charlene Li

Overview: I got a digital preview copy of this book via NetGalley. The book is about is basically about what do organizations (typically incumbent organizations) do to be successful at the business of disruption, the assumption being that it is unusual for the incumbents to disrupt themselves or their industries. You can find more information about Charlene here and buy the book here. What is the book about: Charlene gleams some key insights from some case studies of incumbent organizations, which either lost their way or got disrupted found their way to disrupt themselves and in some cases their industries. […]

Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership, transformation

ABCDEFG of Successful Digital Transformation

I came across this very interesting post by John Hagel, where he brings up a very interesting topic, one that I feel strongly about – Digital Transformation. It appears that you can not go through a corporate presentation or a CxO presentation without hearing the word “Digital Transformation”. Not a day goes by when I don’t read about some initiative run by a business under the banner of “Digital Transformation”. As with any other loosely thrown around words, this term has also lost a lot of meaning and significance. As John clearly points out in his post, doing the same […]

Entrepreneurship, Strategy, transformation

To succeed, Optimise the one variable that matters

Premise: One of the things that almost everyone of us does is to optimize. We optimise our time, our money and at times even our relationships. We want maximum efficiency in almost everything that we do. In organisations, we compensate sales guys on sales made, product managers on product development, marketing folks on leads generated, manufacturing folks on operational efficiency. Everywhere we look, we can find efforts to maximise efficiency in that part. This, in general, is our attempt to gain local optima. We try to reach optimal performance in that specific domain with no regards to the effect it […]

Personal Growth, Podcast, transformation

PBTO S2E5: Personal Knowledge Mastery with Harold Jarche

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Opening music credits goes to Riju Mukhopadhyay & Pavan Cherukumilli Who is on the show: In this episode, we host Harold Jarche. He is focused on providing actionable insights for workplace transformation. He works with individuals, organizations, and public policy influencers to develop practical ways to adapt to the technological, demographic, and societal changes facing us today. Why is he on the show: I have been reading his blog for almost a couple of years and have learned a lot. He helped me change my approach to internalising important information that I come across through a framework that he has developed. What did I learn […]