Go For Governance Gold!
Governance is a fundamental enabler of any transformation effort. While sound governance design is a must, success depends on sustained execution to keep alignment between goals and implementation efforts.
Scaled Agile, #MySAFeStory
Once I stopped looking at SAFe simply as a set of extremely effective tools, I understood how the framework power lies in its ability to touch the core of an organisation, its leadership style, values and behaviours, enabling deep and lasting change in the enterprise #MySAFeStory #ScaledAgileFramework
Let Experience Drive Successful Transformation
Business organisations expect their transformation programmes to generate multi-million worth of value. But the efforts often fall short of the goal, as not enough investment is made in individuals with the experience to deliver on them.
GDPR: information security red herring, cause for concern, or hidden opportunity?
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes live in May 2018. The pending deadline is starting to cause alarm at some businesses. Yet others remain relatively unperturbed. Whichever camp you fall in, we see GDPR as a bit of red herring if considered in isolation. That is not to say that a business can rest on its laurels and do nothing – on the contrary, in fact…Read more
Stop Trying To Predict the Future – Prepare Your Business Plan for It Instead
Leicester City, Brexit, President Trump…. Who Knew!! Virtually no one with a major media platform predicted these outcomes. And even if one got them right, the reactions by financial markets and business community in general still went against expectations.
If 2016 was rough for pundits and pollsters, perhaps more surprising is the astonishment over the fact that forecasters got things wrong. One could say it was just another bad day in the office for those trying to predict the future. That’s not surprising, we’re only human.
Under the dark veil of cybersecurity is a human face
A theme that underscores cinema’s modern sci-fi classic, The Matrix, is the underlying fear that technology makes us humans redundant: it plays on our innate worry that the future is beyond our control. Today this insecurity is very real – and our approach to cybersecurity shows how our own ignorance and helplessness feeds this anxiety.
None of this is new. Government and security organisations spent years suggesting companies patch and update their operating systems and third-party applications, restrict administrative access and use malware defences. But this general advice seems to miss the bigger truth – that people still have the largest impact over a company’s IT security.Read more