The transformation imperative: Don’t be a transactional... Paul Bonington May 4, 2017 The pressure for businesses to transform and sustain a culture of change has never been greater. Traditional companies are giving ground to upstarts at an increasing rate. In fact,...
Can’t prioritize your goals? Try pairwise comparisons
As executives, we’ve all been pummeled with advice on the importance of strategic planning, setting goals and making tough choices. (At Mod Op Strategic Consulting, we’ve done our share of the pummeling). Less discussed is how to make tough choices as a group: How can...
Your employees are also your ‘customers’
You’ve heard it many times: Be customer-focused, understand the customer experience, and employ customer-centric design. The customer experience is one of the appropriate and needed aspects of the digital experience. Now, take this one step further and ask yourself:...
Is your business digitizing or transforming?
Is your company in need of digital transformation – or digitization? There’s an important distinction. With digitization, you’re doing the same thing – albeit in a digital way – but are not producing new results. In fact, this usually just adds costs without...
Eight steps toward successful “enterprise agile”
Large projects often fail. Many times, a lot of time and money is expended before that failure is recognized, simply because the projects are so large. So, while it is best to succeed, if failure is in the cards, it’s best that it happens quickly. However,...
Here’s Our Stack, What’s Yours?
Mod Op Strategic Consulting is constantly experimenting with new platforms as well as sitting for product demos (see below for our latest update to this post). There are hundreds of digital tools out there to help make your business run better. Every function, from...
Data is the ‘Oil’ of the Digital Economy
Data is the ‘Oil’ of the Digital Economy Adriaan Bouten September 15, 2016 It’s become a business cliche but it remains true: data is the ‘oil’ of the digital economy. Data enables everything in the digital marketplace, it is the means by which every company or...
The New Digital Economy Requires New Ways of Working
The New Digital Economy Requires New Ways of Working Adriaan Bouten August 11, 2016 Take a close look at the structural differences between startups—and just about everyone else. Startups, which rely upon being quicker and more innovative than legacy organizations,...
Digital is not just an update, it’s a new beast
Digital is not just an update, it’s a new beast Adriaan Bouten July 22, 2016 At the risk of sounding redundant, I’d like to unpack the meaning of my assertion that digital is not just an update but rather a completely new beast. I’ve written about it before as it...
Digital’s Most Important Lessons
This week my team at Digital Prism delivered best-in-class work to our 20th client. Last month we passed the two year mark, that’s two years of helping to bring digital success to companies and organizations in all types of spaces. I want to share the most important...