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So many USA companies follow a common pattern when they want to start to compete in Europe: they basically do it starting their moves in Ireland. The main reasons are : English, as common language so they can communicate well each other and start with UK as main market target. In the main cities there … Read more
Scenario planning of a company, product, solution or organization is a tough work. You have to understand the landscape, competitors, your capabilities, inertia, common patterns, weak signals, anticipation & game-play. I face the situation on solutions (which is less complex) and an start-up company and the concentration to do it well is enormous. To gather … Read more
This is a nice article that talks about some myths about digital transformation. I like the comments related to: Maturity of your organization: not all organizations can start from the same start line, the level of current maturity is important to understand how drive it. Talent challenge: as in the 90’s the companies wanted their … Read more
Traditional banks have so many challenges with their conversion to the digital world. Same thing is happening with the newspapers and other industries. With the banks the bottom-line is that they come from a very regulated market with big barriers for the penetration of new competitors. They have an ecosystem who has been changing so … Read more
I need to remind this article which contains so much valuable details about how to discover the situation of a corporation through mapping the different areas of the company. The phases are simple: Day 1 – Let us be Honest Day 2 to Day 20 – Map it! Day 21 to Day 40 – Analyse … Read more
There is a common mistake we all do sometimes, and it’s to confuse capabilities and assets when developing an strategy. Assets (brands, facilities, patterns, customer connections, cash…) cannot be center of the strategy of a company. If the assets should be the primary component of a strategy, then any successful company just have to re-invest … Read more
Position and move are essential information you need to put in place a strategy. The strategy is put in place through attacking and defensive actions. In this case, the customer wants to reduce the number of vendors on IT space. We have classified the different vendors depending if they are tier-1, tier-2, tier-3. The picture … Read more
Twitter just announced that they are removing the 140 characters for direct messages. To me as user this means they become a clone of Facebook. Which of the main things you do in Facebook cannot be done in Twitter? Facebook did a move adding the possibility of replying to replies, so the replies are more … Read more
The essential advantage defines coherence as a resolute, clear minded focus in a company on three critical elements: Its way to play its most distinctive capabilities its lineup of products and services The better aligned these three elements, the more coherent company. There are four basic, specific, observable ways in which coherence generates value. Effectiveness … Read more
This post talks about contracts = http://blog.gardeviance.org/2015/03/other-tools-i-use-with-mapping.html Points to remind: Good contract structure small and structured contracts Poor contract structure Large contract covering many uncharted components Highly common to cause highly structured processes to be applied to uncharted components. Large cost overruns.