Was your organisation intentionally designed or has it evolved over time? Is the way it operates a result of informed choices aimed at realising its strategic intent or an outcome of repeated compromises aimed at optimising what’s already in place? Is your organisation agile and able to respond to ever-changing threats and opportunities, or one that is inflexible and difficult …
How an organisation’s digital architecture enables or inhibits business agility
If you’re a senior executive and someone asks you what makes organisations agile, could you confidently explain how digital architecture enables or inhibits business agility? Would you offer an opinion on ‘kappa’ architecture and the importance of having a data pipeline? If not, then you’re unlikely to be taking the necessary actions needed to make your business agile. These, and …
Setting a Trajectory to a Digital Future
If an enterprise is serious about becoming more digital then it needs to rethink how the business and IT parts of its organisation can better use their different perspectives and complementary capabilities to turn an idea for a digital customer experience from concept to reality as seamlessly as possible. David Trafford and Peter Boggis believe that to achieve this a …
‘Being Digital’ as an Organisational Capability
David Trafford and Peter Boggis argue that if organisations are serious about becoming ‘more digital’, they need to give focus and attention to developing ‘being digital’ as an organisational capability. They describe the seven conditions that need to be in place to develop and sustain this capability. All organisations are digital to some degree. The question is: how digital do …
Most strategies don’t work! Here’s how to have one that does
The Next Ten Years, 26 February 2018 Nick Bush from The Next Ten Years interviews David Trafford on the thinking behind the book Beyond Default. NB: The idea of an organisation being on a trajectory is a compelling one, but I’ve not seen it articulated in this way before. Has anyone else defined strategy in a similar way before? DT: Not …