Highlights

Pillars of Success

Culture eats process & strategy for lunch, but without processes & strategy there will be no culture. – There is no either or. We are process and result driven, but that’s not all and shouldn’t be the only focus if we want to change things and grow these days. Just focus on process & strategy is a dead end. The culture should be within the boat.

The Limitation of Customer Journey Thinking

Ginkgo should be very good for peoples memory and thinking. Thinking is why I’m not a big fan of the Customer Journey. People typically think in drawers. The Ginkgo leaf shows that there are hundreds of lines which comes together. Customer Journey thinking limits ourself to much an drawers and makes it difficult to think out of the box, change ways and be flexible. Let’s do the right things with the right view.

Directions – Agencies and Management Consultancies in a changing world of people and processes

Agency vs. Management Consultancy… or People vs. Processes – Meeting people and talking about topics drives me always to re-think topics, directions and ideas. Sometimes it’s just the half of a sentences which point me in a direction and let me brood about something. Now I came to the different direction, the different culture and the different approach between agencies and management consultancy.

Cross-Channel vs. Platform Strategy

It’s a fight between online and offline. Amazon is well known for his platform strategy and is very successful with it. On the other site there is the cross-channel strategy which has it’s advantages. Some voices say that a platform strategy is killing offline within commerce. What is the truth? What is the solution?

Customer Experience & Digital Transformation