We live in disruptive times, don’t we?
The great have fallen and the many small have disappeared before they were even noticed.
Memories of Kodak, Enron, Pan Am, Blockbuster Video and Nokia remain with us.
Start-ups have become global leaders and disrupters inside a decade.
Facebook, Ali Baba, LinkedIn in the digital world and Uber and those amazing non-tech start-ups featured on Shark Tank attest to the surging disrupters coming.
The Internet, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, robotics and intelligent materials development, are the platform for massive almost continuous disruption.
Will your organisation be next?
As subject matter experts in organisational behaviour (from leadership to corporate character), and organisational design, development and delivery, we are acutely aware of the probability of disruption in our own sector.
Only recently a colleague received funding to complete development of an app that will make many business consultants redundant – globally!
A professor in an Australian university is creating a smartphone app that is your own pathology clinic.
We believe it is time to decide on deliberate disruption, rather than wait to let it happen to us.
We are certain that every element of business, if not life itself, is set for disruption, so we may as well be proactive, take the initiative and disrupt wisely ourselves.
So what can we deliberately disrupt?
- People – their development and their roles – aiming for them to thrive in disruption and be valuable and fulfilled. Considering all stakeholders, not just members and shareholders.
- Leadership and Management – how they are evolved and the rise of the Subject Matter Expert as the core employee.
- Organisational Structure – departments, roles and job descriptions, communication methods that enable nimble effective delivery of market offering and adaptability.
- Corporate Character – be the organisation that all stakeholders want to belong to, be associated with, or purchase from.
- Processes and Systems – agile, simple and timely, delivering seamless measurable efficiency.
- Products and services – with a focus on our excellence in offering the market’s current and future needs and desires.
- Market and Marketing – which market to serve best and how to best market in accordance with our corporate character?
- Technology – harnessing and adapting to the most appropriate technology.
- Environment – how and where will we work?
How do we deliberately disrupt?
Our desire for comfort and stability keeps the status quo and makes us vulnerable to unexpected and unwanted disruption.
We can be stuck in our past because of our fear, habits and ignorance.
To deliberately disrupt we must therefore embrace:
- Courage – to overcome our fears
- Disruption – to address our habits and develop flexibility, adaptability and resilience
- Wisdom – to overcome our current ignorance
When do we deliberately disrupt?
Now. Or be disrupted by others, in ways you may not like.
Stand by, or register for our, with my colleague Simon Bowen, forthcoming book on the topic. We’ll be gifting copies to the first one hundred registrants.
Register easily by just sending me this email – it’s already got the subject line Register Me for Deliberate Disruption and there’s no need to say anything else. We don’t abuse email addresses.
What do you think?
