There is common trend prevalent amongst organization across the globe from past couple of years concerning employees leaving away their cushy corporate jobs for seeking a taste of start-up life. Some of the key reasons behind employees such a bold step is: Live up the passion Stressful job Robotic routine life Lack of clarity/growth at…
Hyper-Personalization — Next Generation Customer Experience Redefined?
We are living in a world where every other organization on the planet is striving hard to sell their products / services to potential customers by wrapping them under the glossy & glittery packaging of digital transformation. Though, it might make their lives easier to achieve those conventional sales targets at the end of financial…
Digital Transformation: Decoding Transition from B2B to H2H Experience
Digital Transformation has become one of the hottest ‘buzz words’ of today’s times. And why not, when we discover even baby products manufacturers and renowned accounting firms are heavily betting on this term. The increasing internet and mobile penetration has led to a digital disruption & none of the industries had remained untouched with this…
IoT and VCR – starting with V
Introduction Apologies if I’ve piqued your interest in video tape recorders but I’m afraid you’ve been led astray. This article is not about the Panasonic PV-V4520 or the Sony SLV-N700, although I’m sure they are fine products. VCR then, I’ll touch on this later. In the meantime, a confession. I have to admit that I’m…
The Main Reasons Why Business Projects Fail
If we are going to stem the tide of failed projects, we need to get an understanding of the common reasons why business projects fail. Here are some of the more common reasons, and what can be done to mitigate them. Depending on which research article you look at, anywhere … Read More
Got Feedback? Don’t Wait To Give It!
I believe every manager wants to be the best they can be, but busy schedules, and conflicting priorities can get in the way. So I thought – “why can’t a piece of simple software handle all the boring/routine administrative tasks, and give managers nearly automatic insight into the state of their team?” I sat on this idea for over 2 years, and decided in late 2015 I had to pursue it.
What Leaders Can Learn from Playing Video Games: Why Excellence is a Mystery
Be it Angry Birds or Galaga, Fallout or Call of Duty, knowing what good likes like is pretty easy. You gain an achievement, rack up three stars or land on a leaderboard. In the pre-social gaming days, it was a local leaderboard, the one on the game you were playing at Shakey’s Pizza during lunch from your sys op job on a HP 3000. Today your achievements are splattered across screens around the world. Good is easy to find, excellence not so much.
Systems Thinking, and why lean tools don’t work on their own
We all know about the “5 Whys”.But how do you know how many times to ask “Why?” if you don’t fully appreciate the system in which you are working? (Clue: it’s not always 5 times…)
The Healthful Alternative To Management
The Healthful Alternative To Management “Everything is a fiction.The only thing that really matters is which particular fictions we choose to believe.” Most businesses choose to believe in the fiction labelled “management”. They choose to believe that there is value in having people, most often called “managers”, “in charge” of other people, most often called…
What Leaders Can Learn From Playing Video Games: Mentoring
Angry Birds players rack up high scores from exhibiting the most destructive of behaviors. In the world of management, however, it is important to think about the young birds, before they become angry, and how to help them find their place. How can you help them prosper? How can you apply mentoring to help them test and master …
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