Podcast "Tiny Tales of Transformation"
Everything's ok
Episode 01When everything is going well in your SME, you have a rare luxury: you can choose when to transform.
3-Year Vision
Episode 02A vision for transformation for an SME is not a “digital & agile” slogan.
It’s a direction that helps you make decisions, quarter after quarter.
Let's Do Everything!
Episode 03Prioritization often looks like this: “Everything is urgent.” So… you end up with 12 initiatives in progress.
Role of the Board
Episode 04A good board is there to prevent fuzzy bets and to secure the important projects.
The Strategic Roadmap
Episode 05An SME’s transformation needs a clear one-page direction: 4–5 lines that everyone can understand in under 30 seconds.
Transformation and ROI
Episode 06ROI is also time, quality, customer, risk, team, because those are often what create or destroy value.
An empowered organisation
Episode 07If your SME runs “around” the boss, you can spot it with one very simple sign: when they’re not there… everything slows down.
Rapid growth and DNA
Episode 08When an SME grows fast, putting structure in place is about setting the minimum vital safeguards that protect what makes you strong.
Planning Succesion
Episode 09The best time to prepare succession is when everything is relatively stable, because you can build a gradual transition over a few years.
Rethinking your organisation
Episode 10Customers experience a journey: they buy, they wait, they receive, they use, they ask for help.
The Leadership Committee
Episode 11
An effective Leadership Committee is a framework to make decisions fast and execute better.
Centralise or decentralise
Episode 12Centralise the rules of the game and decentralise execution within the centralised rules.
Using AI to Save Time
Episode 13Define a framework and a context to success in implementing AI.
Employee Experience
Episode 14Employee experience : when the structure serves the onboarding, the training and a clear internal communication.
The Overabundance of tools
Episode 15To avoid the overabundance of tools, make an inventory of them, decide which ones add value, and assign an owner.
Task Automation
Episode 16Start by setting a few rules first, and then focus on the tools.
Securing Data
Episode 17Backups, Access rights, Passwords and Employee awareness are the basics that will prevent 80% of headaches.
Communicating with the customer
Episode 18Moving from managing communication with the customer by email to a shared portal can bring tangible benefits in the customer relationship.
The sponsor of the Transformation
Episode 19An effective sponsor must have a significant leadership position in the company, and decision-making power.
Generations and Transformation
Episode 20In a transformation, one of the bottlenecks is often the speed of adoption. Priority : Manage adoption, not just deployment.
Co-construction and Transformation
Episode 21Co-construction can change the way you involve people from all areas in the diagnosis.
The Weak Signals
Episode 22Subtle, gradual, sometimes almost invisible… The Weak Signals mainly offer an early opportunity to act.
Change Fatigue
Episode 23In business transformations, the invisible risk is ”change fatigue”. This is called change debt:
the organisation is asked to adapt more than it can actually absorb.
A culture of Transparency
Episode 24The real fuel of any business transformation is trust, which is based on the driving force of transparency.
On-boarding Partners
Episode 25The success of a transformation depends in large part on the ability to identify the right external partners and engage them at the right time.
Critical Competencies
Episode 26 Identifying your organisation’s critical skills to run today’s business and to achieve tomorrow’s vision become real drivers.
Let's Talk Systems!
Episode 27The success of a transformation depends on the quality of alignment between the system’s components.