Confessions Of A Business Transformator: What They Don’t Teach You At Business School
I am a Business Transformator and here is my confession. Well, sort of.
I have been in the Business Transformation industry as a Business Transformator for now closing in on nearly 20 years. I am the guy that clients call to come into setup or clean up their transformations. My clients include the biggest and most powerful government in the world, and their business and processes I fix are some of the most important in the world.
But there was a problem. A problem I was warned against ever talking about, and definitely not writing in a book. But this industry is my life. I am deep inside the industry. I couldn’t sit by any longer. This is my story.
Where I am from (New Zealand), when something needs to be said, you say it. It might be unpopular and fall on deaf ears, but you say it anyway. But before we get into that, the reasons why. Why did I decide to write my book or even start HOBA TECH?
The reason is simple. I wanted to challenge the status quo and address the problems in business transformation no one wants to talk about, namely:
The Problem
(1) the business transformation industry is broken, 70% of transformations end in failure.
In business, you can learn a lot from sport. For example, American Football Coach Kevin Kelly was infamous for never punting in the 4th down which was the done thing, and give the ball away to the opposition. Coach Kelly took an a 350-student school, an unknown team and strategy from nowhere, to a national, top 100 ranking and 5 state championships, winning 90% of his games. Criticized for never punting, he looked at the stats and said, ‘it’s what you do on the fourth, and everyone did it without asking why’.
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