As digital technologies dramatically reshape industry after industry, almost every business is now forced to look into Digital Transformation in order to capture new opportunities or to keep up with competition. As IDG noted in their 2018 State of Digital Transformation Report: More than a third of organisations (44%) have already started implementing a digital-first approach to business processes, operations and customer engagement. Some 19% are in the integration process of

“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.” Albert Einstein said. How often are businesses asking the right questions to solve their problems? Based on my experience of helping companies solve problems, most of the time their focus is on finding the right answer more than asking the

To me leadership means finding an objective more important than myself and engage with other people in a reciprocal manner trusting that all I have is what I give. Leadership often demands to deal with uncertainty and to take decisions hoping that other people will follow. Success in leadership does not come from role and title but from clear purpose, passion and self-awareness. Here is a three step approach which defines this: 1. Build trust - Trust is hard to build and easy

Technology is transforming the world and today’s global market place is more volatile than has ever been. Supply chains have grown more global and interconnected with consequent exposure to increasing complexity and disruption. Supply chain speed and pressure to reduce lead time from source to the consumer are pushing businesses to treat the value chain as a whole and not as a sequence of separated silos.It is no longer enough to build supply chains that are efficient, demand

If there’s one thing that is always constant in retail, it’s change. Although most of the change we have witnessed in the past few decades has been relatively incremental, today’s need for innovation represents a seismic shift in the industry. Let’s look at the UK - the grocery market is growing at its slowest rate since 2005 and concerns are intensifying over the fortunes of big supermarkets. In the past few weeks the news has been less than positive: Sainsbury’s suffered it

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, imagination encircles the world. Logic will get you from A to B but imagination will take you everywhere”, as Albert Einstein said. I always thought each person is the result of his own imagination and we get from life what we become in the process of pursuing our goals and dreams. Dreams can come true and all it takes is imagination mixed with action and self-belief. My wife Melisa always dreamed of creatin