Tag: organizational design

The Evolution of Operating Models: From Projects to Platforms

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Enterprises have traditionally relied on project-based models, but modern business dynamics demand a shift to product and platform models for sustained value creation. While projects are essential for specific tasks, they often lead to loss of knowledge post-execution. Transitioning to products means continuous ownership and accountability, whereas platforms allow ecosystems to generate value. Leaders must consciously design these operating models to adapt to evolving challenges.

Revisiting First Principles for AI-Driven Product Management

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In an AI-driven era, revisiting the timeless foundations of product leadership is critical. First principles provide essential truths that guide effective decision-making amid rapid market changes. Product leaders must maximize mission impact and enable team success by fostering collaboration, using data-driven principles, and anchoring their strategies in enduring truths for sustainable outcomes.

Lessons – shifting from startup to enterprise scale

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Transformation is essential for scale-up businesses shifting from startup mode to enterprise scale. This phase of growth is full of opportunities and challenges, but businesses that succeed in this journey show that transformation goes beyond adding new processes or tools—it’s about aligning people, priorities, and leadership for sustainable change. Drawing from companies that have successfully … Continue reading Lessons – shifting from startup to enterprise scale

Product-Led Business Transformation: Eleven Guiding Principles

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Successful organizational transformation relies on leadership support, patience, and an understanding of unique cultures. Continuous improvement and pragmatic trade-offs are essential, alongside effective communication and celebration of small wins. Prioritization of impactful initiatives is vital, and reflective practices help track progress. Transformation is an ongoing journey that requires adaptability. 1. Leadership support is key ‍The … Continue reading Product-Led Business Transformation: Eleven Guiding Principles

Weekend Reads: Empowerment, OKRs and Signal vs Noise

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Some weekend reads for those in the world of digital, technology, organisational transformation and beyond. One the key challenges for senior leaders within business transformations is how to truly drive decision-making and accountability down to a team level, whilst also providing ongoing context and strategic direction. This empowerment is critical to agility, adaptability, talent retention, … Continue reading Weekend Reads: Empowerment, OKRs and Signal vs Noise

Weekend Reads: The 3Ds and enduring shifts in behaviours.

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Some weekend reads for those in the world of digital, technology, organisational transformation and beyond. It is rare that Benedict Evans comments on the world of corporate technology and transformation, but this piece on the decades of change within businesses and how the 3 Ds (Digitization, Digitalization and Digital Transformation) are creating a new landscape to unleash … Continue reading Weekend Reads: The 3Ds and enduring shifts in behaviours.

Embracing Change: The Journey from Foothills to Peaks in Business

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The content draws parallels between outdoor trekking and business transformation, emphasizing the importance of adaptability and resilience in organizational planning for the future. It critiques the traditional 3 horizon model, noting its focus on incremental innovation and its limited scope for holistic transformation. Instead, it advocates for using the terrain metaphor—foothills, ridges, and ranges—to conceptualize the stages of strategic development. Foothills represent the foundational journey, ridges signify testing adaptability amidst challenges, and ranges embody the long-term vision for growth and agility. Successful organizations focus on these continuous cycles to remain customer-centric and data-driven, overcoming obstacles along the way.

Best reads: May 2020

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With the world in lockdown and stepping into the dual world of; dealing with the COVID19 outbreak and also trying work out the ‘next normal’; there has been a lot of uncertainty, anxiety and also, which is good to see, a large degree of thought around the future being better for humankind. This extends to … Continue reading Best reads: May 2020