Lengthy reigns at the top may be the next thing to get disrupted. Carol Ryan – Wall Street Journal Writer What’s the CEO’s role in COVID time? “Point people to the light at the end of the tunnel” according to the Wall Street Journal.[i] The challenge: many CEO’S are unfit for VUCA duty. In other words, …
You’re either the one that creates the automation or you’re getting automated. Tom Preston-Werner – Software Developer Robots are coming. Robots and smart machines are doing a lot of our work and will do a lot more over the next year. Take a look below: Machineswill do 52% of worker tasks by 2025. Startups are re-visioning the entire food …
VUCAN DRIVERS – PEOPLE Old Norm New Norm This too shall pass Constant transformation here to stay Industrial robots are static – ‘pick and place’, ‘welding’ robots Commercial and cobots are flexible, smart, adaptive, and learning Individual leadership Collective leadership MBA Just-in-time work learning Brick and mortar education MOOC and online education Fact based education …
This element of the 7P’s framework deals with people or VUCANs. Work is all about people. At the end of a long day, you work with and for people. You share ideas with people. You plan, direct, organize, and deliver with people. You innovate new products. You service people – your customers. The VUCAN or people element is probably the …
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. William James – Writer So, you’ve spent valuable time reading Working It: Disruption Rules. Great! But, what are you going to do about it? What are your next steps? We end each section Working It: Disruption Rules with …
There are lots of lessons to learn from Amazon. Never stop innovating or questioning the fundamentals of your business. Disrupt yourself before others do. Brad Stone – Journalist & Author Consulting firms, academics, and consultants are developing models for the Future of Work. Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) developed a scenario called the Future of Work: …
Companies (and workers) face 5 questions COVID: When should they (you) self-disrupt? How quickly should they (you) self-disrupt? How should they (you) self-disrupt? What’s their (your) final destination? How are they (you) going to monetize (make money)? All companies are searching for the next killer business model, app, platform, product, or idea. It’s too late …
Retail and hospitality industry is going to be disrupted for a long time if a COVID vaccine is not invented and applied quickly. The doomsday sayers are forecsting: “The retail industry is faced with the greatest disruption in recent memory: a global pandemic with massive economic impact. Certain aspects of consumerism as we know it …
All organizations do change when put under sufficient pressure. This pressure must be either external to the organization or the result of very strong leadership. Bruce Henderson – CEO Boston Consulting Group Companies in traditional industries are the most susceptible to tech disruption. In our neighborhood in Portland Oregon U.S., a retailer occupies a city …
Change is inevitable, and the disruption it causes often brings both inconvenience and opportunity. Robert Scoble – Technology Evangelist “Only 8% of CEOs believe their business model will survive the current levels of large-scale digital disruption.”[i] Digital disruption is the use of tech to make an organization competitive. This is only one piece of the puzzle. The …