Business Transformation

How do you change the nature of work in a 300 year old company employing more than 50K people in more than a dozen countries? How do you teach, inspire and manage them? How do you bring new skills to middle management? How do you become truly customer driven, fast moving, and agile?

In partnership with the Chief Innovation Office, MTN and ING pioneered a transformation model named “PACE” for customer-driven innovation and employee empowerment to accelerate the speed of brining bold products to market.

AI and Digital technologies are creating a seismic shift that has reshaped industries, disrupted traditional business models, and left no corner of the world untouched. At its core, effective AI adoption and digital transformation requires a human-centric approach. Enter Growth Innovation — a blend of methodologies that acknowledges and navigates uncertainty and complexity effectively, enabling businesses to adapt to ongoing disruptions quickly.

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The goal of the book Disruption Proof is to help leaders and founders of companies to create what I call RAD companies, which stands for being resilient, aware, and dynamic. RAD requires new behaviors and skills for all, while also establishing new systems, processes, and structure to deal with an increasingly complex and uncertain world.

RAD companies are necessary to survive and thrive in the Digital Age. Many of the trends we see in business–increasing diversity, agile practices, developing empathy, running experiments–are in response to the complexity and uncertainty in our sociopolitical, economic, and working environments.

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In today’s episode we’re excited to have Sonja Kresojevic, the VP of Product Lifecycle at Pearson. In the episode we cover:
- How teams leverage the product lifecycle framework to focus on the right things at the right time.
- How Pearson funds different early stage projects based on stage specific criteria and metrics.
- How Pearson has scaled lean innovation throughout the business and created a culture that enables innovation.

In this episode, we interview Neal Cross, the Chief Innovation Officer of DBS. DBS is a bank headquartered in Singapore that generated $11 billion in revenue and $4.5 billion in profit last year. They know the finance landscape is changing rapidly, and as a result are on an inspiring journey towards not only creating an innovation group within the bank, but turning the entire bank itself into an innovation group.

In today's episode we're honored to have our guest and Moves the Needle executive advisor Simeon Sessley. Prior to becoming the Director of Strategic Programs at World 50, Simeon played a paramount role in the development of GE Fastworks internal coaching community.

What new ideas should corporate leaders be exploring in the coming months? Here’s a brief list of books, articles, videos, and tools to promote innovation, transformation, and growth within the enterprise.