“Digital Transformation”: the ONE thing to focus on?

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It’s been a while since I last wrote on my blog! The reasons being big changes in my family and professional lifes: moving end of 2016 with my wife and kids from France to Singapore, starting a new job in Singapore while mentoring a startup in France… After 18 months living in Singapore, I saw some interesting parallels between Singapore and startups.
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For a company not purely digital that aims to make a big shift towards digital, there’s another issue it must be aware of: the company must integrate digital in its core business. It means that digital skills must come skills that are highly valued within the company. Both on business and tech sides. Keep reading →
In the previous episode, I talked about how Management 3.0 may be a positive approach for management of companies and how to avoid some of the hurdles when making a change towards this kind of management. However, I can easily hear many CxOs and managers, used to working in classic “control & command” organizations, who will raise their voice and say: “yeah, yeah, that’s pretty nice on the paper, but letting people be autonomous and do whatever they want will just be a mess!” Actually, my first answer for them would be “yes, you are completely right!” Keep reading →
I’m making a little pause on my “Digital Shift & Accelerated Disruptions” episodes to share my current return on experience of transforming an idea into a real MVP ( Minimum Viable Product) in a startup context and how this could translate in the corporate world.
First, let’s give some context. Not so long ago, while I was working as an IT Director for the first e-commerce player in France, I came up with an idea that finally led me to quit my senior management position and launch a startup with a small team in the first months of 2016: Oh My French. Keep reading →
About ten years later, the situation started to change dramatically, in every region of the world.
For the past few years, we’ve witnessed accelerated disruptions in many areas of economy, and big traditional companies have been challenged on their own core business. Digital-born players have taken significant market shares in the traditional industries: