The tl;dr of ‘Digital Posture’: Organizations with mature digital capabilities are more agile and resilient to external shocks.Digital Posture has four facets: Breadth and maturity of digital products & services portfolio, end-to-end data enabled digital...
The art of strategic planning in unprecedented times
One month? Two months? Maybe three? Most data suggest COVID-19 will peak within three months in the United States, but it could be with us for much longer, with possible new resurgences over the next 18 months. Pandemics will recur. What then, should you be asking...
How private equity firms can adopt a digital mindset
Mod Op Strategic Consulting has been working with clients in the private equity industry since our inception six years ago. We’ve helped PE firms win better deals by assessing the technical, product and business capabilities of target acquisitions and we’ve helped...
5 skills every chief digital officer needs…
The rise of the Chief Digital Officer is here. By 2016, around half of Fortune 500 companies had CDOs navigating the waves of digital innovation and disruption in their businesses. It’s a progressive position, taking pressure off both overburdened CIOs and CMOs while...
Strategic alignment: How to navigate the multiverse
Achieving top-to-bottom alignment on strategic direction is one of the most vexing problems facing leaders of any organization. In this case study we illustrate how any for-profit or not-for-profit organization can create a strategic plan with measurable goals that...
Platforms for growth: Business models for a digital world
There is an increasing understanding that driving future sustainable growth in the transformed digital economy requires us to think differently about the structure, operations and product strategy of our businesses. The label for this new approach is a “platform...
Sony’s journey from transformation loser to winner
Back in March, 2015 I wrote an article on the company that I saw as the biggest transformation failure in the last 20 years: Sony Corp. At the time, the company was suffering from a combination of competition from Chinese and Korean electronics products that made...
Five keys to a modern operating model
Ask a dozen consultants what the term “digital transformation” means and you’ll likely get a dozen different answers. The term has become so overused and so lacking in definition it has become meaningless. This lack of clarity is problematic for senior executives...
Is your organization’s technology a mess? You need ‘Principles’
January 10, 2019If you hold a leadership role in any type of enterprise, you’re well aware that digital technology will make or break your organization’s success. But, if you’re like many executives, you may also feel your organization is saddled with technologies...
Putting a square peg in a round hole: Lessons from Apollo 13 on team problem-solving
The beginning of a new year is a good time to take stock. If you’re looking for a good team-building exercise to kick off 2019, try what I call the “Apollo 13 exercise:” Identify a difficult problem. Do some inventory. Dump all your stuff on a table. How can you solve...