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Go MAD or Leverage Disruptive Change — A Call to ACTION!
Summary
• Disruptive change is the new normal!
• Disruptive change is occurring in more ways than through digital and physical technology, but via new business models, customer expectations, supply logistics, global competition, future of work and more, at an unprecedented scope (more than digital — also social, economic and environmental), scale (global), speed (exponential) and systemic impact (everyone, everything, everywhere).
• Organisations have two choices — leverage disruption or go MAD — fail through being trapped in a confusing cycle of Managed Adaptive Decline (MAD) whereby they adapt to declining market and operational conditions in a supposed well-managed manner until they die.
• The future for organisations is to:
- Be ready to leverage disruptive change, and
- Generate sustainable value
• Where to start:
– Diagnose and understand your organisations readiness to leverage disruption and drive a Disruption Readiness Action Plan (DRAP)
- Create culture change through a new mindset, skill-set and strategic action in three key areas — board and c-suite, leaders in strategy, innovation and transformation, and critically, in your learning…
