Certified Business Transformation practitioner helping leaders successfully digitally transform, innovate using technology
Certified Business Transformation practitioner helping leaders successfully digitally transform, innovate using technology
While standard methodologies and techniques are helpful, this is never a cookie-cutter process and each engagement is customised for each customer and their unique needs. For Digital Business Transformation projects I prefer to adapt the THRIVE framework created by Rob Llewelyn to the specific needs of each engagement and organisation.
The Key Principles of THRIVE Framework are:
Transformation: Explore how transformation is about creating a new future, without the constraints of the past while change simply creates a better version of the past. Many other disciplines are all needed to deliver a transformation like change management, portfolio management, benefits realization management, program and project management, technology management, risk management and governance management to name a few.
Holistic: Transformation requires a fundamental shift in multiple components of an organisation. Governance, mindsets, business models, innovation, digital use cases, etc. THRIVE equips you to facilitate a holistic approach to transformation, and avoid the blinkered and siloed approaches that many take.
Response: Helping organisations respond strategically to the opportunities and threats they are presented with - both inside their organisation, and externally in the market. And how to encourage appropriate leadership mindsets, workforce culture and capabilities required to transform strategy into reality.
Innovation: While Cloud, Mobile, the Internet of Things and Robotics, etc. can bring about the most rewarding business transformation when used strategically, only through the innovative convergence of digital technologies can companies truly transform through new business models and ways of working.
Value: Transformation must create value, and so value needs to be measured, which means transformation leaders need to ensure they are gathering the right data to measure both the tangible and intangible value of digital business transformation, and reporting it to executives.
Enterprise: We work on how transformation is achieved by encouraging, embracing and educating people from across the enterprise and building a collaborative culture of new capabilities and mindsets. Opportunities to upgrade workforce capabilities need to be identified and people made to feel safe and comfortable about innovation, success and failure.
My mission is to create relationships, not transactions and my promise is that I'll be there, as questions or issues arise, every step of the way until we get to the desired outcome.
When helping businesses with Digital Transformation and emerging Technology Consulting I often see organisations chasing the resolution of symptoms rather than the real underlying problems. The importance of a strong discovery phase using appropriate discovery techniques and maturity assessments helps create a strong shared future vision and understanding for the business to rally around for the delivery of a holistic digital business transformation strategy. This early work is the key to deliver real speed to value in the longer-term rather than chasing causation shadows.
Other Engagements that are not holistic strategic Digital Business Transformation Initiatives usually revolve around a few tactical and limited strategic focal areas:
If any of these sounds like challenges in your organisation then reach out for a no-obligation discussion to see how I can deliver real value and outcomes for your business.
Advisory 33 is a digital business transformation and technology advisory, a certified consultant with decades of experience in business and technology that thrives on helping customers navigate the challenging business environment using digital transformation skills, innovation and disruption techniques in the digital economy. Taking a holistic approach to avoid digital transformation icebergs, identifying new business opportunities and acting on them with speed and agility. Ensuring that leadership have new digital mindsets, strategies, business models and capabilities required to THRIVE in a fast-changing digital economy. The process for your business is to ensure it gets specific business value from the services early and often.
Whether you're just starting on your digital transformation journey, needing to urgently pivot your business or looking to restructure to create efficiencies or have technology solutions not delivering the value and speed needed by the business, I've got you covered.
Digital Transformations are not easy and in fact, they are often difficult to execute well. Many companies often try to achieve this by adding this new transformation work onto the current team's existing workloads which can cause initiative failure. Bringing in the right skills, methods and resources to support your key teams with these additional workloads especially in the early part of a project can go along way to achieving success. Also, this work must ensure that organisational change structures and capability are built within the business as part of the project to allow for ongoing change initiatives. Change is never-ending and as such new organisational structures that are more suited to a constantly changing environment are now more important than ever. My mantra is to always start with a hum business and management consultant an-centred approach to all digital or technology transformation engagements.
The emerging technology advisory side of the business is focused on alignment between the technology and business strategy or helping CIO's and IT teams with the challenges created by the transforming organisation. Technology is the ultimate enabler to deliver the amazing customer experiences required for success in our digital world but some basics must be in place first to support the transformation agenda. The technology systems, architecture and technology teams often benefit from the external perspective I provide as they grapple with their transformation initiatives to ensure they can deliver on aggressive corporate digital transformation plans. technology consulting
The Technology Advisory side of Advisory33 is focused on alignment between the technology and business strategy or helping CIO's and IT teams with the challenges created by the transforming organisation. Technology is the ultimate enabler to deliver the amazing customer experiences required for success in the digital economy but some basics must be in place first in order to fully support the transformation agenda. The technology systems, architecture, governance and agile delivery teams often benefit from the external perspective I provide as they grapple with their transformation initiatives to ensure they can deliver on aggressive corporate digital business transformation agenda.
The Future of Work advisory focuses on Collaboration strategies, technology, systems and processes and physical workspaces (incl. work anywhere requirements) required to support digital businesses and innovation. Decades of experience gained from consulting to Fortune 1000 customers on collaboration technology, its effective deployment, adoption via change programs and the end-user experience in various organisational settings delivering organisational agility and enabling a productive and agile workforce.
Collaboration technologies are key to supporting teams, agility, change, communications, innovation and enable alignment required for general business and ongoing transformation initiatives.