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Future-ready part 2: Diversity – an essential ingredient for a future-ready organisation
In his seminal 1937 essay, “The nature of the firm,” the economist and eventual Nobel laureate Ronald Coase argued that corporations exist to avoid the transaction costs of the free market. Yet with transaction costs plummeting (spurred by rising connectivity)...
Organisation Design: Restructuring or Reshuffling to enable Strategy
Customer expectations are not just changing; they are exceeding the ability of a business to deliver on time. They are looking for alternatives, with more emphasis on experience and convenience. To keep up, companies are evolving their offering to meet the...
How to fill the gap between Strategy and Execution
Organisations are great at setting their strategy and identifying their goals, but they fall short when it comes to their operating model review and redesign, the key component that enables the strategy and drives the achievement of goals. Operating models consist of...
Culture PART 2: The role of leaders in a culture shift
In the previous article in this series we examined the effect of COVID-19 on an organisation’s culture. Now, we turn the focus onto the role of leadership and technology in leveraging culture. When an organisation decides to change its culture – be it planned or...
Culture PART 1: Did COVID-19 signal the end for hierarchical organisations?
According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, human capital is defined as: “the knowledge, skills, competencies and other attributes embodied in individuals or groups of individuals acquired during their life and used to produce goods,...
How to get people onboard your data journey to drive usage and adoption
In the preceding articles we have covered topics on building the correct foundations so as to implement data analytics in an organisation with a centralised data function. Using the Sit. Crawl. Walk. Run. Paradigm, we explored how best to...
The Trust Dilemma – how to build trust in Data
In Computer Science, garbage in, garbage out (GIGO), is the concept that flawed inputs will yield flawed outputs, or ‘garbage’. This principle applies to all analysis and logic, in that arguments are unsound if their premises are flawed....
The ‘Sit. Crawl. Walk. Run.’ Principle that drives data and analytical maturity
Biological and intellectual advancement in human beings follows a set pattern, as does implementing data analytics into a business. Unfortunately, many organisations want to rapidly ascend from having no analytics to having mature...
Why a centralised analytics function (rather than distributed) makes sense
Data analytics is the process of analysing raw data to extract valuable insights. Data analytics techniques can reveal trends and ‘dark data’ that would otherwise be lost in the mass of information. This insight can then be used to...
The value of analytics in achieving competitive advantage
Data – it is more than just a buzzword. Today, gathering data to help you better understand your customers and business is relatively easy. In fact, it has become so easy that there’s the danger of having too much data to deal with. Even...
Data Analytics for Community Development in the Mining Industry
It has been fascinating to see the changing approach of mining companies to community development and Corporate Social Investment over the past 20 years. The mining industry stands apart from many other industries in South Africa in that...
Part 3 of 3: Adaptive and Responsive Leadership
In the first two article of this series, we explored the concept of an ‘Adaptive and Responsive’ flavour to strategy formation, planning, budget management, resource management and delivery execution. We understood the shift in mindsets...
Adaptability
This year, many companies and organisation have found themselves caught, to coin a popular phrase, ‘between a rock and a hard place.’ Those in leadership roles have had to make uncompromising decisions due to the external factors which...
Part 2 of 3: Adaptive and Responsive: Budget and Resource Management
In the first article of this series, we explored the concept of an ‘Adaptive and Responsive’ flavour to strategy formation, planning and execution. We found that a high maturity on the scale of being ‘Adaptive and Responsive’ results in...
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Part 1 of 3: Being adaptive and responsive for business resilience
For an in-depth version of this article, refer to the linked document on the bottom of the article. Last year at around this time, organisations would have been busy with the annual strategy setting, annual planning and annual...
Meet Dipti Batta, Senior Principal Consultant & Agile SME
For those who have had the privilege of meeting Dipti Batta, the words to describe her are not hard to come by. ‘Passionate’, ‘energetic’, and ‘amiable’ are the words best suited to her manner, while ‘change-enabler’, ‘client-centric’,...