Nick Evans draws on his experience over the years on emerging technologies including cloud, mobile and social computing, big data, IoT, intelligent automation and cybersecurity.

Assessing your organization’s digital transformation maturity

While there are perennial capabilities and skills that are required for business success – investment, leadership, culture, change management, governance – digital transformation requires new capabilities that organizations need to acquire and develop mastery around. With most organizations now several years into their digital transformation journeys, many are looking to measure progress, gauge maturity, and…

Assessing your organization’s digital transformation maturity

While there are perennial capabilities and skills that are required for business success (e.g. investment, leadership, culture, change management and governance), digital transformation requires new capabilities that organizations need to acquire and develop mastery around. With most organizations now several years into their digital transformation journeys, many are looking to measure progress, gauge maturity, and…

4 considerations for navigating ‘innovation antibodies’ and ‘innovation theater’

In recent years, we’ve started to see terms such as “innovation antibodies” and “innovation theater” being used to describe some of the challenges in managing innovation, particularly in larger organizations trying to find their own innovation culture. Today, many innovation leaders must carefully navigate the waters between too much resistance to innovation from corporate antibodies…

5 digital business predictions for 2017

While discrete technology trends often get all the attention in New Year’s lists, this coming year will be highlighted by organizations taking a more holistic focus on digital transformation that taps into platform business models, the power of technology combinations, mastery of digital services and leading practices in corporate innovation. There will also be an…

Platform business models: A primer

Platform business models are gaining a lot of attention lately, but not everyone knows precisely what they are. These business models, which allow enterprises to set up powerful ecosystems for value exchange and innovation among participants, can be used across industries and are fast becoming a dominant business model for the digital economy. Here are…