2021 October

Could You and Your Business Benefit from a Business Coach or a Consultant?

The DICE Hard Change Factors framework is a Change Management methodology developed by Perry Keenan, Kathleen Conlon, and Alan Jackson of the Boston Consulting Group. DICE is used to calculate how well a company is implementing or how well it will be able to implement its change initiatives by evaluating 4 "Hard" change factors.

A traditional Value Chain involves a sequence of activities--from conversion of raw materials into components which are then assembled into products. The products are then distributed, marketed, sold, and serviced. This linear progression, however, provides little protection from risks of being outperformed by cutthroat competition in today's disruptive markets.

The disconnect between demand generation and supply fulfillment activities have made organizations suffer consequences of conflicting objectives and sub-optimal resource allocation.

The 4 Levers of Control model, developed by Robert Simons, provides managers in large organizations a framework to manage the tension between Value Creation and Control (managing and measuring value).

Agile software development approach is getting ubiquitous. This approach is imperative to match customer expectations and emerging business trends. Implementing Agile approach to software development leverages significant benefits, including:

Cybersecurity is the protection of information systems from theft or damage to the hardware, the software, and to the information on them. The more we depend on the Internet and related technologies, the more we depend on their security.

Seeking a return to pre-recession levels of profitability and growth, banks are embarking on a Transformation process which touches every corner of the operation--from providing new tools to its sales force to consolidating back-office operations. Research finds that Banking Transformation projects are over budget 41% of the time, behind schedule 29% of the time, and often cancelled midway.