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A Coming Wave Meets a Fragile World
A new era of transformative technology is dawning, with recent breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) making people stand up and...
Oliver Nowak
1 day ago5 min read
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How Global Powers are Shaping the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly ascended to the forefront of global strategic priorities, becoming a pivotal element in the...
Oliver Nowak
Feb 44 min read
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The AI Supercluster Revolution: Are you Keeping Up?
Going into this year, everyone is talking about the speed and scale of change—not just in the technology industry but fundamentally...
Oliver Nowak
Jan 284 min read
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The Dismantling of Enterprise Software as We Know It
Today, enterprise software is designed to augment human capabilities. In the near future, agentic AI will drive a paradigm shift. Instead...
Oliver Nowak
Jan 173 min read
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Digital Transformation: Dream Big, Think LEGO
Digital transformation projects are notoriously complex, with layers of dependencies, risks, and moving parts. Organisations often dream...
Oliver Nowak
Jan 144 min read
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Why Digital Transformations Fail: Are You Making These Fatal Mistakes?
In today’s world, digital transformation is an inevitability for any business, but its track record means it probably inspires more dread...
Oliver Nowak
Jan 95 min read
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The 90-Day Plan Every Business Needs to Survive 2025
When I first started working with clients on their strategies, I noticed a pattern: they were often little more than glorified to-do...
Oliver Nowak
Jan 64 min read
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Don't Think of AI as a Technology
The performance of a business can be best characterised by the quality of its decision-making. The more often the people within a...
Oliver Nowak
May 17, 20244 min read
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Why Everyone is doing People, Process, & Technology Wrong
The concept of People, Process & Technology has been around almost as long as the idea of Digital Transformation itself. And most...
Oliver Nowak
Apr 29, 20244 min read
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Why your Data Strategy Matters more than Ever
In the fast-paced digital world that we have now lived in for the last few decades, data isn't something new, and having a data strategy...
Oliver Nowak
Apr 16, 20243 min read
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Sample AI Maturity Journey in Plain English
As I mentioned in a previous article, AI is here to stay and it won't be long before it's as ubiquitous as cloud technology. But the...
Oliver Nowak
Apr 11, 20242 min read
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AI: Where to Start in the Real-World
With the transformational potential of AI being clearer than ever before, businesses are under enormous pressure to ride the tidal wave...
Oliver Nowak
Apr 2, 20243 min read
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Cloud Computing's Blueprint for Generative AI Adoption
Guess what, we're standing on the precipice of a new digital era. I'm sure you've heard that a million times already in the last year or...
Oliver Nowak
Mar 27, 20243 min read
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The Top 7 Reasons Why Digital Transformations Fail
What is it? – Digital Transformation is all about the process of reimagining how things are done today through the use of technology....
Oliver Nowak
Jan 26, 20245 min read
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5 Top Tips for Realistic Implementation of Enterprise AI
There’s been a lot of talk about artificial intelligence (AI) for years now and for the lion’s share of that time it has felt very...
Oliver Nowak
Jul 27, 20235 min read
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The Importance of Organisational Change Management (OCM) in Today's Digital Business Environment
As companies around the world look to become more agile and shorten development cycles, it has become essential for organisations to...
Oliver Nowak
Jul 25, 20234 min read
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CIOs should Communicate like Psychologists, not Technologists
No matter how well thought out and strategic a CIO’s initiatives and roadmap, they are completely useless unless the business is bought...
Oliver Nowak
Jul 25, 20234 min read
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Become a People Expert, not a Technology Expert
Technology has become an integral part of our lives, but why do we buy technology? The simple answer is: to solve people problems. In...
Oliver Nowak
Jul 25, 20233 min read
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Associating Technology Transformation with Business Outcomes
In today's rapidly changing business landscape, technology transformation has become a critical factor for success. But throwing money at...
Oliver Nowak
Jul 25, 20233 min read
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Strategy Alignment: Creating your North Star
Before we go anywhere, I feel like I need to answer the question: What is digital transformation? Simply put, digital transformation is...
Oliver Nowak
Jul 25, 20233 min read
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Buying your Data with Loyalty
In recent years, there’s been a lot of talk about digital marketing and how businesses are collecting and analysing data to profile our...
Oliver Nowak
May 19, 20234 min read
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Why you Can’t Manipulate Transformation
Why are your customers your customers? Why are your employees your employees? If you don’t have a simple answer to these questions, don’t...
Oliver Nowak
Oct 10, 20222 min read
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Telling the Story of Change
Life is a maze. We have no idea what’s around the corner and we often don’t know where we’re going. At least for most of us, where we are...
Oliver Nowak
Sep 15, 20223 min read
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Creating a truly Transformative Experience
If you asked the majority of people to describe themselves, the words ‘creative’ and ‘problem-solver’ would probably feature in some...
Oliver Nowak
Aug 18, 20224 min read
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Freedom & Responsibility - The Netflix Way
I have just finished reading Marc Randolph’s book “That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea”. As...
Oliver Nowak
Jul 13, 20225 min read
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The Power of Belief
How much do you truly believe that you are going to be successful? Have you ever struggled under the weight of a lack of belief? It might...
Oliver Nowak
Jun 13, 20224 min read
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Motivation
Motivation. If there’s one thing that leaders of a business would want to bottle up and access whenever they want, surely motivation...
Oliver Nowak
Apr 8, 20224 min read
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Marcus Rashford - Your Modern Day Change Leader
For 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 Nowak
Feb 8, 20225 min read
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Jackie Robinson - Change Leader
To 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 Nowak
Jan 10, 20226 min read
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The 6 Stages of Behaviour Change
Anyone who has ever tried implementing a successful digital transformation programme can speak of the resistance they felt at one stage...
Oliver Nowak
Dec 7, 20214 min read
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Humanising the Physics of Change
Human beings are very often resistant to change, but to understand why we first need to understand the principle of change in the first...
Oliver Nowak
Nov 10, 20214 min read
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Setting up your Organisation to Win
In 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 Nowak
Oct 7, 20215 min read
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Deurbanisation of Society
Urbanisation has long been a sign of progress, it has been something developing countries have strived towards. Historically, it has been...
Oliver Nowak
Sep 14, 20215 min read
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The Multiplier Effect of Personal Accountability of Digital Transformation
What is Total Quality Management? I’m really excited about this article, so I’m just going to jump right in. Total Quality Management...
Oliver Nowak
Aug 25, 20215 min read
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Unifying Digital Transformation and Climate Change to achieve Meaningful Progress
I have just finished reading Bill Gates’ How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. The reason why I love this book is that across various...
Oliver Nowak
Aug 5, 20215 min read
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Tennis: The Language of Life
With 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 Nowak
Jul 13, 20218 min read
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The Perfect Team - The Power of Safety
Google - The Perfect Team In 2015 Google presented findings from their research into “What makes a Google team effective?”. Over 2 years...
Oliver Nowak
Jun 10, 20215 min read
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Toto Wolff - The Truth about True Leadership
The 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 Nowak
May 11, 20217 min read
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Lombardi's Leadership of Character & Integrity
Who 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 Nowak
Apr 15, 20215 min read
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Surfing the Sigmoid Curve
What is the Sigmoid Curve? Another one of life’s great temptations of simplification is to see life, business, society, and success as...
Oliver Nowak
Apr 14, 20216 min read
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The Tempo of Decision Making
John 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 Nowak
Mar 24, 20214 min read
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The 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 Nowak
Feb 11, 20215 min read
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A Vision of Purpose
The State of Play It is generally agreed that digital transformation has enormous potential, it influences how companies structure...
Oliver Nowak
Jan 27, 20216 min read
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The Strangle of Incentives on Creativity
The Wrong Incentives The candle problem was created by Karl Duncker in 1945 as a cognitive performance test which tested an individual’s...
Oliver Nowak
Jan 12, 20215 min read
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Tribal Leadership - Fostering Human Instinct in our Transformation
What 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 Nowak
Dec 11, 20209 min read
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The Jackson Eleven
I’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 Nowak
Nov 22, 202010 min read
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The Personality Dimensions that Explain the Adoption and Use of Technology
The Technology Investment Decision As this blog has developed, the human side of technology adoption has started to capture my interest...
Oliver Nowak
Nov 3, 20207 min read
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Evaluating Digital Readiness – The Emotional Side of Organisational Change Management
A New Mission Statement My analysis in previous articles has brought me to a turning point. I have assessed what a digital transformation...
Oliver Nowak
Oct 11, 20206 min read
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The 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 Nowak
Sep 21, 20207 min read
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Why 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 Nowak
Aug 23, 20204 min read
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