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Future-ready part 1: What does a future-ready business look like in the new normal?
The pressure to change had been building for years. Well before the COVID-19 pandemic, senior executives routinely worried that their organisations were too slow, too siloed, too bogged down in complicated matrix structures, too bureaucratic. What many leaders feared,...
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,...
Meet MAC’s Executives: Karina Jardim, Senior Executive
“Exceptionally talented consultant” “An absolute pleasure to work with” “Driven by a desire to see people grow” If you know Karina Jardim, you know that these phrases used to describe Karina ring undoubtedly true. She is a name that is valued to every MACer, whether...
Thriving in the Age of Digital Adoption: Embracing the Workforce Ecosystem (part 2)
In the first part of this series, we looked at how the fears of technological innovation are resulting in an unproductive resistance toward modernisation, even as it gains extraordinary pace in 2021. We also delved into the importance of a growth mindset in allowing...
Thriving in the Age of Digital Adoption: Overcoming the Fear of AI (part 1)
“What if artificial intelligence takes over my job? What if I become redundant?” Every one of us has experienced technology encroaching on our lives, more and more so with each year that passes. It appears that technological innovation is a certainty that is only...
Business Case Analysis - What a Project Manager should know: Part 3
Business Case Analysis - What a Project Manager should know: Part 3 In part 2 of this article we looked at the various components of the Business Case that should be considered. In this part we dive into the various aspects of...
Business Case Analysis - What a Project Manager should know: Part 2
Business Case Analysis - What a Project Manager should know: Part 2 In part 1 of this article we looked at the importance of the Business Case, and where it should fall in the lifecycle of a project. In this part we dive into the...
What a Project Manager should know: Part 1
There was a time in the not too distant past when the only type of financial justification required for an internal Information Technology (I.T.) project was that the end-user wanted it and they would take the allocated charge back....
Re-inventing the Organisation for The Future World of Work
“The future ain’t what it used to be” – Yogi Berra If the 2020 pandemic has taught us anything, it is that we can move very quickly if we need to. Organisations have reconfigured processes and organised their people to work in...
One in three companies won’t survive the current turbulence.
Changing times has accelerated the inevitable. It has exposed underlying problems that were always there. It's here and it's about survival. Remember the good old days when you could take months or even years to make critical strategic...
Enabling agility for competitive advantage and sustainable relevance
https://youtu.be/8iYFwNKKnVE True agility is “being agile” supported by “doing agile in the right way”. When embarking on an agile transformation journey, there are many ways of working (methodologies and practices) to consider that...
Meet MAC’s Executives: Trevor Jamieson, Senior Executive
Passionate, energetic and an all-round team player. That’s me! I’m a Senior Executive at MAC Consulting, a management consulting company which focuses on broad base management consulting. We’ve been in business for 26 years. MAC is a...
Is your organizational transformation set up for success?
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, organizations were faced with challenges pointing to the need to rethink strategies and business models. Pressures resulting from trends in digitisation and customer behaviour have now been...
The Agile Parenting Journey: Part 2
As parents, if we are not guided by a desired vision of our parenting journey and its outcomes, we may unknowingly get trapped in a situation where we are continuously on a treadmill but not getting anywhere, or moving towards a goal that...
Ensuring optimal business continuity through change
https://youtu.be/r762vaUnHDo Today, organisations are faced with more uncertainty than ever before, and the ability to remain stable and excel during these changing times has now become the make or break factor. Rapidly responding to,...
The Agile Parenting Journey: Part 1
Agile: adjective, noun: Agility (Oxford dictionary)– able to move quickly and easily; nimble. In the professional world, a more formal definition of Agility is the focus and commitment to achieve the right outcomes* in a timely manner...
Stability is Change
Expecting and embracing change enables organisational stability. What can organisations learn from the Maasai to remain stable in times of change? Our “ever-changing world”, words so oft heard, yet today, more than ever before, so...