Tag: process
Overcoming resistance to changing your current operating model
Business leaders are not always willing or able to take on the challenge of transforming the existing operating model. They face resistance due to turf wars, internal bureaucracy, legacy working methods, technology debt and corporate politics. In fact, over 31% of business leaders consider resistance to change within their organisation a pivotal barrier to redesigning the operating model.
Driving innovation and productivity
Maricelle Boshoff | Operations Manager | HansaWorld South Africa | maricelle@hansaworld.com | www.hansaworld.com |
African companies need to implement new technologies if they are to...
Organisation Design for Uber Times
“Doing business in Uber times” has become a metaphor for doing business in a digital world of algorithms, automation, artificial intelligence and non-stop disruption....
The rise of AI: collaborate, rather than compete
The fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotics, Process automation, and heuristics are all developing at a rapid pace.
While we don’t yet know exactly...
What the future of digital holds for retail banking
Banks set to lose the ‘offer’ as digital disruption continues to transform industry. Banks are finding it increasingly difficult to reach and ensure value to their customers in light of the challenge by existing and new fintech competitors who are muscling in on the ‘offer’ - the point at which a customer’s process of research and assimilation culminates in the customer acting.
INVEST IN INNOVATION
That innovation is important and necessary for survival goes without saying. While there is no universal solution for organisations looking to improve their ability...
EXPAND INTO AFRICA
According to the 2016 African Economic Outlook report, Africa’s annual GDP growth increased from around 2% in the 1980s and 1990s to above 5%...
MANAGING INNOVATION FUNDAMENTAL
Driving innovation by sourcing ideas from the crowd has seen some of the world’s largest brands tap into the collective wisdom and creative thinking...