Is your company future-proof?
What are CEO’s saying about barriers to achieving the performance results they deserve?
What are the biggest barriers to achieving the performance results you deserve NOW?
Gaps in skills or knowledge
Workplace environment issues / company culture
Low employee motivation and engagement
Politics, turf wars, lack of alignment at the top
Internal friction due to unnecessary complexity and bureaucracy
Distortion of time and busyness: lost hours in wasteful meetings, slow time to decisions, slow execution
Lack of access to critical knowledge assets
Procrastination / inertia
Lack of execution; inability to act on critical information
Lack of adoption of emerging technologies
If you still experience these barriers, you must add them to your responses to question #2 because removing them is foundational to future proofing your organization.
2. What are the biggest barriers to achieving the performance results you deserve IN THE FUTURE?
Meeting the changing needs of a diverse workforce
Maintaining operational efficiency in the face of uncertainty
Designing effective hiring practices to attract and retain the right talent
Becoming excellent at audits so changing industry regulations don’t get in your way
Meeting diverse, non-traditional customer needs
Effectively managing inventory to reduce costs and take advantage of opportunities
Effectively managing supplier networks to avoid disappointing customers
Harnessing your data to know the decisions you make are fact-based
Building a change-able organization to avoid becoming obsolete
You may be surprised that we didn’t mention any specific technology. That is because technology’s impact is a given. And the barriers to finding success with new technologies remain people and process.
Get your culture right, set up your employees for success through a culture of innovation and an obsession for operational efficiencies (or a complete distaste for waste), and technology can come and go without being a negative disrupter, but an enabler, to your business.
Adopting technology to be able to do more of what you exist to do just becomes part of who you are.
As McKinsey says, “the secret to tech’s full potential is never just tech.”
Is your company ‘future-proof’?
