How do I succeed at selling?
If you want to win in business, you can’t rely on your monthly management reports. You need a clear perception of "what affects what", so that you can easily tell how one factor influences another.
Planning for digital value creation
The need for Digital Value Creation Plans has never been greater. Businesses currently operating in an exceptionally tough environment can learn lessons from Private Equity on how to achieve razor sharp focus on Value and build solid foundations for growth within a Digital Transformation Strategy.
What is DevOps and why should I care?
DevOps is a culture and set of practices applied to technology engineering teams. DevOps can change an organisation into a continuous value-delivery machine, ensuring that your investment in technology makes its way safely into the hands of users and customers, where it starts to generate revenue.
In conversation - pragmatic Digital Transformation answers
David Seacombe and Fortune Nwaiwu discuss digital transformation, why it is important and practical implementation. In the 36 minute conversation David answers a number of questions from Fortune, as he gathers information for his university dissertation.
Providing clarity through change and chaos
Clear and concise messaging is the key to convincing others to take action. Simplicity frees the recipient from interpretation due to a lack of clarity. Communicating with clarity helps build much-needed resilience during times of change.
The challenges of Servant Leadership
A Servant leader shares power, puts employees first and helps people develop and perform as highly as possible. Servant leadership inverts the norm, and makes the teams nearest the customer the priority. Digital transformation requires leadership; servant leadership accelerates customer-centricity.
The Serverless Revolution
Serverless computing is the provision of computing infrastructure on-demand, not to a fixed number of servers or amount of bandwidth. For those who want to build customer-centric services, this approach simplifies the tech and encourages innovation whilst providing cost aligned elastic scale.
Digital transformation in the insurance industry
We might assert that the insurance industry has not been good at transformational change of any sort, digital or otherwise. It’s difficult to move forwards when confusion and uncertainty exist so, like organisations in any sector we explore how companies can simply focus on ‘being better’.
How to build digital capabilities
Digital capability describes the skills and attitudes that individuals and organisations need if they are to thrive in today's world. It is also the capabilities a company requires to transform itself into a sustainable, relevant and successful business by using digital technology as an enabler.
Digital transformation in Banking
Customer expectations of banking have evolved over the years. If traditional banks don’t meet needs, then the challengers will. If banks keep delivering value to their customers they will be rewarded with loyalty. The true value of digital transformation to a bank is what it can do for its customer.
Payments Architecture
An efficient payment system is indispensable to the interbank, money, and capital markets. Previously Banks built in-house payment processing systems to ensure performance, compliance and security, but challengers are using APIs and Cloud-based Vendor solutions in their Payments Architecture
Finding Product Greatness
A great product answers a genuine need. If it looks good, is easy to use and long-lasting then all the better. In a B2B world the challenge is keeping the product focused on solving the customer's problem. Building the right thing and incorporating it profitably into the business model is paramount.