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Leadership relies on Vision

You can’t lead people without having a vision of the future. Where else would you lead them toward? You’ve got to communicate what it is

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10 Ways to Deal with Crises

As a consequence of the worldwide lockdowns, following the life-threatening effects of the corona virus (COVID-19), many revenue streams discontinued almost overnight. Leaders need to

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The Trinity of Design Thinking

The inconvenient truth is that an estimated 93% of Customer Experience (CX) initiatives fail, while in 2016, according to Gartner, 89% of companies expected to

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Decoupling of the Value Chain

Professor Thales Teixeira from Harvard Business School took 8 years to write his book ‘Unlocking the Customer Value Chain: How Decoupling Drives Consumer Disruption’. His

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Customer Carousel™ Blueprint

Customer Carousel™ is one of the outcomes of a 4-year discovery process by Edwin Korver and it turned out to be an amazing panorama, not

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Ride the Waves of Change

In business, performance is key. In performance, how you organize can be the key to growth.

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Where to find future growth?

The big question on every executive’s mind is: Where to find future growth? Whether the question is an urgent one or driven by a regular

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Right on the Money

Since the early 1960s, Silicon Valley is known for its many tech-startups. The birth of the Internet in 1995 meant that information, experiences, opinions, and

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Mind the Growth Gaps

You may have heard the words “Mind the gap” as an audible or visual warning phrase when you entered or left a train, to take

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Youngest Generations Succumb To Pressure

Employee disengagement is one of the reasons why companies fail to achieve their growth aspirations. However, underneath it, lies a much greater problem: “Half of

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Thesaurus of the ROUNDMAP™

During the development of the body of knowledge of the ROUNDMAP™ 4-dimensional framework, we found that existing words or concepts ─ often originating from a

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Digital Business Transformation

Digital Transformation has become a prevalent topic on the boardroom agenda, however, according to BT most CEOs aren’t that confident that their company will be

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Change or Transformation?

Digital transformation appears to be on most corporate agendas, however, most transformations are actually change-initiatives, i.e., adaptations to market conditions. And that’s a bad thing

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Yesterday When I Was Young

A few days ago I watched an interview on television with a well-known Dutch poet, performer, and author, Jules Deelder ─ in celebration of his

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Master of Business Transformation

Following our previous post in which we introduced the Business Model Compass™ and the Cycle of Disruption™, we like to propose an antifragile counterpart of

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Businesses don’t transform by themselves

We know digital transformation is most critical to business survival. However, research by Prophet and VINT suggests that executives are becoming increasingly aware of two

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The Wheel of Dharma

Despite not knowing about the Wheel of Dharma and the Eightfold Path, the resemblance with the structure of ROUNDMAP™ is remarkable to say the least.

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How to deal with uncertainty?

Margaret Heffernan is a former CEO of five businesses, author of five books in which she explores business and effective leadership, and a part-time lecturer

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Heffernan: Dare to Disagree

Margaret Heffernan is a former CEO of five businesses, author of five books in which she explores business and effective leadership, and a part-time lecturer

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Advancing The Customer Carousel

I truly love the series Mad Men, however, there is one scene in particular, which was the grand finale of season one, that has kept

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Who’s the boss?

In order to explain something complex, it may help to use an analogy. Therefore, let me tell you about ancient pillars, keystones, and bosses with

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What makes customers return or refer?

ROUNDMAP™ Integrated Customer Lifecycle differs from the traditional sales cycle – which focuses on achieving customer satisfaction – because we believe customers won’t refer or

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Adapt or Die: IBM’s Rebirth

It can be really harsh to be a casualty of disruption. It is not for the fainthearted. Automakers, the news media, entertainment industry businesses, banks,

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Bypassing the Pecking Order

Margaret Heffernan is a former CEO of five businesses, author of five books in which she explores business and effective leadership, and a part-time lecturer

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Adapt or Die: Adaptability Quotient (AQ)

Whether a startup has the potential to become a success very much depends on its founder(s). To assess the leadership of a startup most investors

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The Case for Customer Compassion

In a previous post, we made the case for empathy. Today, we would like to make the case for customer compassion. When we made the

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ROUNDMAP™ Roundtable Rules

We talked about setting up Customer Roundtables, as a second operating system or shadow structure, to allow the free flow of information between customer-facing employees.

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The Responsive Company

In 2015, during one of my executive assignments, I was asked to write a book on the potential of big data. However, as I researched

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Growth Activation™

The goal of the ROUNDMAP framework isn’t merely to improve your firm’s commercial performance, rather provide a lens through which to perceive the aspects related

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King Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table

The idea for a customer round table began when I started to imagine people sitting around the ROUNDMAP™ to discuss all customer-related issues openly, decoupled

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Harnessing Horizontal Collaboration

We’re all too familiar with the typical bureaucracy consisting of a hierarchy of authority, while employees are grouped by the functions they perform for the

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Driving Customer Excellence™

A tagline serves to clarify a thought, product, brand or proposition. The tagline for ROUNDMAP™ is Driving Customer Excellence™. However, the problem with words is

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Innovation calls for T-Shaped People

In January 2005, Tim Brown, Executive Chair of IDEO, wrote an insightful piece for FastCompany introducing Design Thinking into the field of strategy, while also

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Customer-touching Activities

One of the learnings from creating the ROUNDMAP™ is that, although most firms consider marketing, sales and service as their main customer-facing operations, these activities

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Price/Volume Matrix™

Since price strategy is one of the pillars of any business strategy, I took some time to create the Price/Volume Matrix™. I believe the graph

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The Meritocracy Fallacy

In an alarming article in The Atlantic by Daniel Markovits, professor at Yale Law School and author of The Meritocracy Trap, Daniel makes a strong

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Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis

If you’ve taken our online Coordinator Course, you are already familiar with the universal concept of a ValueHub™ and its Orchestration. However, to capture enough

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ROUNDMAP™ Strategic Playbook

We’ve spent a lot of time to explain the disciplines involved with Customer Dynamics (cross-functional and cross-structure) resulting in the ROUNDMAP™ Framework. Because we believe