This really resonates with me Chris. In my view the word has been slowly corrupted by becoming increasingly used as a euphemism for cost reduction efforts in large organisations. Now heads go down when they hear it.
I don't think the transformers are always to blame. True transformation is hard, and requires a lot of resource (time or brains) to achieve real impact. Restructures are comparatively easy to demonstrate impact (but also hard to get right).
I think people need to see real change happening and with most transformation, especially data transformation the changes are big (infrastructure/ platforms) but not linked to value. Meaning that actually underlying the same issues exist, or worse.
This really resonates with me Chris. In my view the word has been slowly corrupted by becoming increasingly used as a euphemism for cost reduction efforts in large organisations. Now heads go down when they hear it.
I don't think the transformers are always to blame. True transformation is hard, and requires a lot of resource (time or brains) to achieve real impact. Restructures are comparatively easy to demonstrate impact (but also hard to get right).
I think people need to see real change happening and with most transformation, especially data transformation the changes are big (infrastructure/ platforms) but not linked to value. Meaning that actually underlying the same issues exist, or worse.