Future oriented leadership in stormy times Bad times are good Foresight times With the 2023 fall quarterly closings, most companies are in the process of approving their budgets for 2024 or…
GBS trilogy on the digitalization of back offices III Part Three: «Quo Vadis - Global Business Services?» Sometime in the 1990s, the digital transformation of the corporate world began. While this…
GBS trilogy on the digitalization of back offices II Second part: «The Revolution Behind the Scenes - Where Are We Today?» Sometime in the 1990s, the digital transformation of the corporate world…
GBS trilogy on the digitalization of back offices I First part: «Fascination Global Business Services» Sometime in the 1990s, the digital transformation of the corporate world began. While this process…
What resilience has to do with the future and strategy About «Black Swan Events» and the unpredictable I recently wrote a post on the topic of «Black Swan Events» and gave tips on how to prepare for the…
About customer journeys and HR processes Wooing customers and scaring off applicants - can that work? To avoid getting into hot water, I'll start this article with a disclaimer: I am…
The world of work in the digital age Goodbye Change Management - Welcome to the «Future of Work» For me, the topic of «Future of Work» took shape between 2016 and 2017, when I was…
A great Kick-off - the smart way to launch a strategy Or about senseless CEO Strategy Roadshows My vocation is to make companies fit for the future in the role of a sparring partner and to ensure true…
Consultant, advisor, coach or mentor? The world needs more Sparring Partners! In a corporate world where terms like consultant, advisor, coach, and mentor pop up everywhere, it's often…
Strategic Foresight project follow-up Go «back to the future» with me today! Hand on heart, how many visions of the future have you watched and how often have you seen or done a follow-up…
AI, ChatGPT and Spatial Computing The digital future is knocking loudly on our door! It may sound like a corny joke, but it's true: The future is not what it used to be! Although the…
Culture eats strategy for breakfast ... My Leadership Trilogy - Part three «Psychological Safety» My credo is based on the principle that good leadership is not rocket science, despite the…
The business of business is business, really? My Leadership Trilogy - Part two «Diversity in the Team» My credo is based on the principle that good leadership is not rocket science, despite the…
To be or not to be future-ready - that's the question! My Leadership Trilogy - Part one «The common Goal» My credo is based on the premise that good leadership is not rocket science, despite the variety…
3 examples what leaders can learn from team sports It is difficult to say just how much, but football has had a major impact in building both my character and my leadership competence. For 15 years I…
10 people, 8 nations, 3 continents, 1 team: Diversity is worth the struggle Everybody agrees that diverse management and leadership teams make better decisions than non-inclusive ones. Why is it changing in such a slow pace?…
Benchmarking and the power of facts, data and numbers My mantra in decision making is: «Numbers aren’t everything, true. But without numbers, everything is nothing.» Let me try to explain why.
When leaving IKEA An Artwork about my Life This gift created by Marika Szaj I got late fall 2020 from my Group Shared Services management team during the farewell…
