Digital Transformation
What a Road Trip by EV Taught Me About Digital Transformation Paid Members Public
This July, my wife and I attended a wedding in rural Sweden. Instead of the direct route from Stockholm to the venue, we decided to turn this into a week-long road trip covering almost 3000 km, by EV! From Stockholm to Åre, through to Kristiansund and down the coast past
Data-driven Commercial Leadership: One Year In Paid Members Public
While I find it hard to believe, I am now more than a year into my Chief Ecommerce Officer role! As they say, time flies when you are having fun, or at least when you have ambitious top-line targets to hit. At the same time, when I consider how much
Hardly Working: Governance Theatre in Digital Transformation Paid Members Public
While some find inspiration in quiet meditation, majestic nature, or beautiful music, this article was inspired by a recent journey through airport security. Bear with my logic, but this reminded me of digital program governance. Who exercises control over investments, who defines gates and dates, and who get to decide
The Secret Courage of Small Changes Paid Members Public
When you think of having the courage to make a difference, what comes to mind? Tackling an intractable problem, investing sleepless nights in a rush towards your goal, maybe making the impossible happen at the moment suprême? Or do you think of encouraging incremental changes, establishing new routines, and working
From Data to Commercial: The First 100 Days, Part Two Paid Members Public
It is a truth not universally acknowledged, that people rarely reflect on their first 100 days on the job. Yet despite the temptation to simply plough ahead, it can be valuable looking back. In part one [https://qstar.ai/from-data-to-commercial-the-first-100-days-part-one/], I considered some of the challenges I had faced since
From Data to Commercial: The First 100 Days, Part One Paid Members Public
Last month, I shared my thoughts [https://qstar.ai/the-data-leaders-solution/https://qstar.ai/the-data-leaders-solution/] on moving from Chief Data Officer to Chief Ecommerce Officer. Now eight weeks in, I have roughly completed half of my first 100 days in the role. While many books have been written on what one
The Data Leader's Solution Paid Members Public
More than two years ago, I started this blog [https://qstar.ai/have-data-want-impact/] by posing the question: "How can we move from simply having data to using it to deliver positive impact?" As I shared in The Data Leader's Dilemma [https://qstar.ai/the-data-leaders-dilemma/], there is no clear answer. Data
The Data Leader's Dilemma Paid Members Public
There is a misconception that people working in the field of Data, Analytics, and AI are academic types. This conjures up images of rarified enclaves of computer science minds, debating how to design the optimal model to crack some arbitrary performance benchmark. While it is true that data scientists can
