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How to Fix the Costly Lack of Technology Understanding in Business

How to Fix the Costly Lack of Technology Understanding in Business

by | 1 Dec, 2021 | Board & Governance, Board of Directors, Business - General, BusinessFitness, NEDs, Non-Executive Directors, Profitability, Strategy, Technology

I read an interesting report in ITWeb this week following a survey by Xero, the cloud-based accounting software company for SMEs, of 400 South African small business owners. It shows how a lack of technology understanding and skills is costing these businesses dearly...
Are You Paying For Productivity or Wasted Time?

Are You Paying For Productivity or Wasted Time?

by | 12 May, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, HR & Personnel, Leadership, Motivation, Pandemic, COVID, Productivity, Technology, Work Life Balance, Working From Home

Reading Seth Godin’s blog post this morning really got me thinking: in this “new normal” are we paying for productivity or wasted time? Since the Industrial Revolution, people have been generally paid for a job – doing something in a central place for a number of...
Leading a Business in the “New Normal” Working From Home Age

Leading a Business in the “New Normal” Working From Home Age

by | 14 Apr, 2021 | Leadership, Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, Excellence, Growth, HR & Personnel, Lifestyle, Motivation, Pandemic, COVID, Productivity, Technology, Work Life Balance, Working From Home

One thing has become clear during the past year of lockdowns and other measures associated with the pandemic: Working From Home (WFH), or, as it is increasingly becoming known, Working From Anywhere (WFA) is going to be very much a feature of the “New Normal” business...
“Never change things by fighting the existing reality…to change something build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

“Never change things by fighting the existing reality…to change something build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

by | 12 Apr, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, Growth, Investing, Strategy, Technology

While most changes to business models are incremental, we should always be looking to see how we can make our existing model obsolete by replacing it with something new. Incremental changes are, of course, much easier to copy and so any such changes will only give you...