Leadership
History is filled with people who by their sheer skills have persuaded their followers to act on their vision. Ignoring the morality of their teachings we will be well served to learn from the approaches of Hatshepsut to Hammurabi, Henry VIII to Hitler, Mohandas Gandhi to Martin Luther King or Julius Ceaser to Jesus Christ. However, why does organisation still fail to get this fundamental concept.
I want to explore the topic of leadership through a series of blog.
- Leadership of the gaps
- Leading to a vision
- Where leaders fail (in progress)
Design
Design in the Digital industry has become synonymous with customer value. Also, it is one of the tripwires. One can easily be branded as old school or biased if its value is questioned. The concept of a Balanced Team or some flavour of the viability, desirability and feasibility mix has been used for at least a decade. This has further been expanded to add sustainability accessibility amongst a few more rendering achieving an intersection of these concepts next to impossible.
I want to explore this concept and break down the sacrosanct views.
External Articles
Driving Business Agility Without Large-Scale Transformation Programs
Indeed, if we scroll through the annual reports of Fortune 500 companies over the last decade, many of them will detail going through some version of a digital transformation. While such transformation efforts have come to be expected by shareholders, most organizations either haven’t completed them or have failed to achieve their desired outcomes. So, why do organizations still persist with this treacherous multi-year, multimillion-dollar journey? Continue reading
Strangling a Monolith by Focusing on ROI
The answer to the simple question “Which problem do we solve first?” often determines the success of any product. The response, however, is more complex—especially when we are talking about strangling an existing monolith. If we dial up the challenge further, with the pressures of the government sector and the innate complexity of the payments domain, then the answer to the original question can almost sound improbable. Continue reading
Collective ownership of culture
After spending over twenty years in various consultancies across the globe, I joined Roam Digital as a Senior Client Partner. As a person with product management as a primary craft, I always look at every organisation as a product. I focus on helping organisations become lean, customer-centric and scale by continuous learning and improvement. While many organisations preach it outside, it is rare to see consultancies practice it. Continue reading