Endless meetings, big plans with far too much Nespresso in the boardroom . Yet another external analysis to be sure is often the answer to organizational and marketing challenges. But those don't work anymore. Embrace disruption as your friend . The new normal is that the world is never finished, and after version 1.0, 2.0, 2.4. and 3.0 will follow in quick succession. Innovation means continuity.
Endless meetings, big plans with far too much Nespresso in the boardroom .
Failure = okay (but learn from it)
Disruption and volatility (volality) can cause confusion and mistakes. That is never bad. Because you learn from worst practices . How millions of community funds were burned at the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) due to the sick corporate culture caused by slow decision-making. Or how superficial contacts and too little supervision led to a drama at the Amsterdam Ambulance Service. Or how a merger at the Tergooi hospitals did not result in synergy hongkong phone numbers but in a headache due to uncoordinated ICT systems. Or V&D that lagged behind in innovation, partly due to failed reorganizations.
Huge failure costs due to untapped potential, high direct costs or overworked employees
A strategy that has not been experienced, because then it has no value in the execution
Unclear responsibilities and poor financial accountability
Lack of information, or too much information provision
Burning 80 percent of budget before taking action
Insufficient attention to motives, images, behavior and motivating and inspiring
Wake up in action mode
Disruption promises sleepless nights for CEOs and boards of directors who are into quiet planning. For them, the publication Strategy = Execution (aff.) belongs on the bedside table. Every day, a mandatory half hour of reading Jacques Pijl, to wake up the next morning from the bedroom silence in the do-mode. And that well-founded and thought-out.