Each month, “Araujo on Transformation” episodes feature conversations with Charles Araujo, founder of the Institute for Digital Transformation. We all hear a lot (too much?) about Digital Transformation, but Charles is working to ground that platitude in reality. An engaging speaker and best-selling author, Charles is spreading the gospel of business change through an equally human and technological lens. Today, we talk about “the new resilience” and why leaders need to think bigger than continuity.
Episode 4
In this episode: Charlie talks about the Digital Enterprise Readiness Framework, and its connection to the evolving idea of resiliency. These days, executive having business continuity plans (BCP) at the ready isn’t enough. We’re not going through a traditional disaster or disruption. The current moment of transformation is totally new.
Charlie wants leaders to accept, and even embrace, the fact that they cannot plan their way into the new future. What they can do is commit to the process, upgrade their technology and encourage their teams to be creative, adaptive and relentless.
Also in the episode:
- How to create a resilient organization
- Compensation models are still tied to the old world
- Creativity is from the top down
- “The beatings will continue until morale improves”
You can also stream the audio-only version of this episode:
Highlights
'The new normal isn't a new normal, the new normal is a state of continual transformation.' #CloudWars Click To Tweet 'This idea that we can go and lock a bunch of people in the room for four months and build a two year plan… throw that out the window.' #CloudWars Click To Tweet 'If you're running on this ancient, rigid technology, you can do all the people and process work, all the cultural instructional work, but you're not going to be able to pivot.' #CloudWars Click To Tweet
Cloud Wars Live Digital All-Stars
Charles Araujo is one of our regular Digital All-Stars. The All-Stars are experts who will appear in regular video podcasts focused on the critical themes shaping (and re-shaping!) the business world in the digital age of 2020. Our intention is to provide regular chunks of timely ideas, insights and conversations on high-priority subjects from industry veterans with diverse backgrounds.
