Each year, around Christmas, I have fun reading the predictions for the following year, and, depending on what I read, my mood balances between amusement, doubt, glee or even sometimes anger. In 15 years of experience in digital, I have seen the “hype cycle” of Gartner evolve through time, right or wrong, too optimistic or too pessimistic. But its easy to criticise and never do the exercise - so this year, it’s my turn to dip my toe into it and we’ll see in the coming years if I was right or wrong.
Read MoreWhen you receive the mission to design your digital transformation & new customer experience, whatever it is a new challenge or your daily routine, you most probably already have tons of ideas and ambitions, fed by market trends, new technologies, management requirements, success stories, group strategy, … but is this enough to start to build your new vision?
Read MoreThe big trend nowadays is to say that a Digital Strategy is no longer needed, that digital should be embedded in all strategies, it is mainstream, part of a global approach and that stand-alone digital strategies are no longer needed... that Digital strategy *IS* your Business strategy. But can you really do without one today?
Read MoreA few days ago, an article was published in the Belgian magazine "L'Echo" asking if Belgium had missed its Digital transformation. While I'm always happy to read about Digital transformation in Belgium and see that the debate is becoming front and center, I felt I needed to react on this one.
Read MoreAmong the missions we get to work on, a lot start from customer journey redesign - an ambition to rethink the overall customer experience and revisit solutions and services proposed along the story, altogether building relevance and competitiveness. But have you thought about your change readiness?
Read MoreAfter having been at the heart of transformations initiated by Digital the last 10 years, I tried to look back and find patterns – looked at what went well, what didn’t, and why.
After analysing carefully – it seems that indeed there are some patterns out there, similarities between companies/industries that managed to transform successfully their business, mainly because of Digital.
Read MoreIt has been repeatedly claimed that the biggest challenge to achieve a true (digital) transformation is to overcome challenges which are mostly internal: Lack of buy-in from executive committees, no real vision of change, no leadership, internal politics, heavy governance, reluctance to change…
Read MoreThere is not one day where I don’t see a post worshipping entrepreneurs. People who didn’t hesitate to aim for hardship, uncertainty, take risks, all that to steer their business in total freedom, achieve great independent success or even sometimes in…
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