Robin Speculand

Nine Uncommon Practices for the New Business Landscape

Organizations are at greater risk and pressure due to business model disruption than any other time in history. They can no longer rely on yesterday’s success for tomorrow. This is leading to new ways of working in a new landscape. This engaging and entertaining keynote highlights what just a handful of successful leaders are doing differently.

These uncommon practices are the latest thinking from our client work and research. It includes, 1. how to achieve your strategic objectives by doing less, not more and 2. how you need to provide people with choices for higher engagement, and 3. how to constantly review in order to create a rhythm.

Each of the uncommon practices are explained using examples, stories and research and are:

• 90-day chunks – why action items should only be set in 90-day compartments
• Structure your success – provide a framework for your leaders to follow through the implementation journey
• Make choice your collaborator – allow your people to choose the right actions as it increases fivefold they will take the right actions
• Less is more – when you ask people to do less, more is achieved
• Communicate throughout – don’t let the communication dissipate after the launch
• Abandon yesterday – you can no longer rely on yesterday’s business to deliver tomorrow’s revenue and must look at disrupting the business today
• Point out what’s right – most leaders only point out what’s wrong, not what’s right. Requiring a balance.
• Review rhythm – conduct regular reviews at all levels across every part of the business
• Implementation never goes according to plan – one of the few absolutes in business

Digital Execution
Enterprise + Intelligence + Implementation

According to Forbes Magazine, 84% of Digital transformations fail. As many organizations adopt Digital, there is an early pattern emerging from those succeeding. It is not about implementing robotics or big data or Artificial Intelligence; it’s about integrating all three across the enterprise with a proven playbook.

The top reason Digital Execution succeeds is when there is C-level consistent engagement, rapid adoption, execution ability and cultural alignment.  Robin, in his presentation will discuss how corporations can avoid the pitfalls of Digital Execution and succeed where others are failing. Robin’s approach to Digital Execution allows you to go beyond adopting Digital to save costs and leverage it as the competitive tool it can and should be. This is achieved by integrating Digital into your strategy and then driving the execution across every part of the enterprise, starting with digitized operations. The approach focuses on making the organization more agile, efficient and responsive to market opportunities.

Excellence in Execution

The current approach to strategy execution is not working as more implementations fail than succeed. We need a different approach and different thinking. This extremely informative keynote is packed with useful tips and highlights what leaders need to address to achieve excellence in execution. It focuses on developing the discipline of execution, how to translate the strategy in to the organization and key building blocks.

Strategy Implementation Challenge

You have created the strategy and now you have to implement it. You go from discussing it with only the top leaders to sharing it with the whole organization and giving people direction. Strategy is about making the tough choices; implementation is about taking the right actions. This interactive and informative presentation introduces the Implementation Compass™ and how to take the right actions.