By Sarfaraz Khan, Salford Business School The COVID-19 crisis caused significant disruptions to the business world, causing many organisations to turn to plans for getting back on track and planning for the future. The spread of the pandemic, as well as the fact that UK and EU trade will be Read more…
Help! Our digital transformation team is good at delivering technology. But not so good at bringing significant improvements for the business and for customers. Where are we going wrong? We’ve all heard the statistic that 80 per cent of transformation programmes fail. How true is it? No one knows! Like Read more…
“For the music festivals of the future, technology is the headline act” (Intel,2020). During the past decade, digital technology has revolutionised almost every music festival, and today technology promises further development during a thriving period for the industry. It can be perceived from the world around us how far we Read more…
By Eleanor Gregory Will the Live Music industry survive Covid-19? The year 2020 was set to be the most revenue generating year the live music industry has ever seen prior to COVID-19, but because of this the industry has experienced a catastrophic blow (Winterburn, 2020). An industry worth over £1.1 Read more…
By Tina Judic, CEO of Found In the Strategic Digital Transformation book, chapter 6 is titled ‘How to become a digitally enabled and visionary leader’. In this blog post, Tina Judic discusses leading a digital business through a global pandemic. This is the first time in my life as a Read more…
By Tim Griggs After reading “COVID-19: the new and unwanted member of the C-Suite” on this blog, it struck me that this is part of a broader challenge that many knowledge-based organisations will now face. That is, the excellent and proactive way in which many have reacted to the sudden Read more…
By Gordon Fletcher, Alex Fenton and Marie Griffiths At the beginning of 2020 we celebrated the release of the book, “Strategic Digital Transformation“. As a collection that brings together the combined experiences of academic and business authors, the book makes it very clear that digital transformation requires support from all Read more…
It’s been an interesting year for sports clubs and innovation. PwC’s Sports Annual Survey 2019 went with the headline “Sports industry – time to refocus?”. This came from their survey of 580 industry leaders from 49 countries on their growth expectations. 94% of these concluded that innovation was important or very Read more…
This website is an extension for the limited pages of our book so this case study covers Xentum, which has been operating on a financial service since 2004. With a programme of digital transformation, this SME have been able to achieve: Increased output by 40%. Retained all our their staff Read more…
The book cover image for Strategic Digital Transformation took much deliberation. Usually in these situations, the easy (and usual) option is to pick a stock image from the publishers library of choice. As main authors devoted to digital transformation and from a Business School – artwork decisions isn’t a usual Read more…