Have you ever found yourself in a meeting where someone is presenting the proposed scope and direction for a change, or dare we say it, a transformation project? How often do you hear about what the project SHOULD do? What we SHOULD be including our business case. What the outcomes of the project SHOULD be. How we SHOULD approach the … Read More

Imagine. Give yourself the time and space – and the permission – to imagine. Use what if to your benefit. Often, we use what if as a negative – what if this doesn’t happen, what if it goes wrong, what if it breaks, etc. But using it as a positive changes your mindset dramatically – what if it DOES happen, what if it DOESN’T go wrong, what if it flourishes, etc? Einstein declared that “imagination is … Read More

Most large corporate organisations have a Chief Risk Officer (CRO) – either someone with that title or someone who takes on responsibility for risk across the business. But we have a theory that we should rename this person the Chief “No-Risk” Officer … In my experience, projects are worked and re-worked until most, if not all, of the risk is … Read More

Think about your business. How well is going at the moment? Give it a score out of 100 with a number that is not divisible by 5. If you want to bump that score up towards 100, you can change the way you do things, you can increase your staff numbers, you can update your systems … But if you … Read More

Many people use the words “change” and “transformation” interchangeably – as though they mean exactly the same thing. But they don’t mean the same thing … whilst certainly related, there is so much more to transformation than there is to change, even big change. Let’s compare dictionary definitions to start with and for, for no particular reason, I am using … Read More

We often find ourselves working with clients who want to “transform their business”. As we have said before, though, it’s one thing to change the business, let alone transform the business. To truly transform the business, can you fix it or do you have to start again? Sure, you can change the way you do things. You can implement new … Read More

Welcome, indeed! A couple of colleagues were sitting in a bar … it sounds like the start of a joke, doesn’t it. But that is literally how the concept of Transformagination was born. Their client was a traditional kind of business – risk averse, run by senior leaders who were late in their career, leaders who had only ever worked … Read More