Oliver NowakApr 84 minMotivationMotivation. If there’s one thing that leaders of a business would want to bottle up and access whenever they want, surely motivation...
Oliver NowakFeb 85 minMarcus Rashford - Your Modern Day Change LeaderFor a growing number of sporting stars, their media platforms are now managed by PR and marketing experts. It’s a way to enhance their...
Oliver NowakJan 106 minJackie Robinson - Change LeaderTo many of this generation, and particularly here in the UK, the name Jackie Robinson isn’t going to mean much. Personally, I only came...
Oliver NowakDec 7, 20214 minThe 6 Stages of Behaviour ChangeAnyone who has ever tried implementing a successful digital transformation programme can speak of the resistance they felt at one stage...
Oliver NowakNov 10, 20214 minHumanising the Physics of ChangeHuman beings are very often resistant to change, but to understand why we first need to understand the principle of change in the first...
Oliver NowakOct 7, 20215 minSetting up your Organisation to WinIn Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People he refers to the 6 paradigms of human interaction: Win/Win, Win/Lose, Lose/Win,...
Oliver NowakSep 14, 20215 minDeurbanisation of SocietyUrbanisation has long been a sign of progress, it has been something developing countries have strived towards. Historically, it has been...
Oliver NowakAug 25, 20215 minThe Multiplier Effect of Personal Accountability of Digital TransformationWhat is Total Quality Management? I’m really excited about this article, so I’m just going to jump right in. Total Quality Management...
Oliver NowakAug 5, 20215 minUnifying Digital Transformation and Climate Change to achieve Meaningful ProgressI have just finished reading Bill Gates’ How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. The reason why I love this book is that across various...
Oliver NowakJul 13, 20218 minTennis: The Language of LifeWith Wimbledon in the rear view mirror, the post-Wimbledon blues are strong, so in my mourning I was inspired to write about one of my...
Oliver NowakJun 10, 20215 minThe Perfect Team - The Power of SafetyGoogle - The Perfect Team In 2015 Google presented findings from their research into “What makes a Google team effective?”. Over 2 years...
Oliver NowakMay 11, 20217 minToto Wolff - The Truth about True LeadershipThe subject of my next article is one of my sporting and leadership idols, Toto Wolff. As a passionate Formula 1 fan, I have watched...
Oliver NowakApr 15, 20215 minLombardi's Leadership of Character & IntegrityWho is Vince Lombardi? For those on this side of the pond who are unfamiliar with Vince Lombardi, he is known as arguably the greatest...
Oliver NowakApr 14, 20216 minSurfing the Sigmoid CurveWhat is the Sigmoid Curve? Another one of life’s great temptations of simplification is to see life, business, society, and success as...
Oliver NowakMar 24, 20214 minThe Tempo of Decision MakingJohn Boyd’s OODA Loop In this article I wanted to zone in on decision making. What do we need to have in place to act quicker and more...
Oliver NowakFeb 11, 20215 minThe Socratic Method - Have you Questioned your culture?Socrates: “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing”. I have spoken a lot about culture, but what actually is culture? It’s an...
Oliver NowakJan 27, 20216 minA Vision of PurposeThe State of Play It is generally agreed that digital transformation has enormous potential, it influences how companies structure...
Oliver NowakJan 12, 20215 minThe Strangle of Incentives on CreativityThe Wrong Incentives The candle problem was created by Karl Duncker in 1945 as a cognitive performance test which tested an individual’s...
Oliver NowakDec 11, 20209 minTribal Leadership - Fostering Human Instinct in our TransformationWhat is a tribe? Continuing on from the previous blog, I wanted to look at the concept of leadership in more detail. Again, this concept...
Oliver NowakNov 22, 202010 minThe Jackson ElevenI’ve been talking a lot about change culture and creating an environment for change but not really addressed the question as to how you...
Oliver NowakNov 3, 20207 minThe Personality Dimensions that Explain the Adoption and Use of TechnologyThe Technology Investment Decision As this blog has developed, the human side of technology adoption has started to capture my interest...
Oliver NowakOct 11, 20206 minEvaluating Digital Readiness – The Emotional Side of Organisational Change ManagementA New Mission Statement My analysis in previous articles has brought me to a turning point. I have assessed what a digital transformation...
Oliver NowakSep 21, 20207 minThe Big Stumble – Why do so many Digital Transformations Fail?For years, companies have been raving about their digital transformation initiatives. Every time without fail, it pricks the ears up of...
Oliver NowakAug 23, 20204 minWhy digitally transform in the first place?Survival of the Fittest To close off release week I wanted to give you some of thoughts on the big question Why? Again, as I entered the...
Oliver NowakAug 22, 20207 minThe Cloud Availability vs. Security DebateIn the digital age, we want to make our data to be 100% available to ourselves whenever and wherever but we want it to be 0% available to...
Oliver NowakAug 11, 20206 minLiving in the CloudsAre we reaching breaking point? In the last decade or so, the race to digitisation has forced organisations to deploy more and more new...
Oliver NowakJul 27, 20204 minData Insights: Plugging in Business ValueWith the digital transformations of many businesses of all shapes and sizes in full flow, their operations and services have become a...
Oliver NowakJun 22, 20204 minWhat actually is a digital transformation?One of the main motivations of my blog is to condense the 0’s and 1’s of digital transformations into a language that anyone can...
Oliver NowakJun 22, 20203 minDigital Factories – The incubators of agilityIn the last blog I explored how evidence has shown that the most agile companies are the most resilient. In this article, I thought I...
Oliver NowakJun 22, 20202 minDigital Transformation: Where’s the evidence?Advanced digital technology is not a new idea, the field of artificial intelligence (AI) research has been around since 1956. Somewhat...
Oliver NowakJun 22, 20203 minA Brief History of TransformationKicking off my blog series, I wanted to give a brief history of transformation, for in the words of Terry Pratchett: The First Industrial...