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Practical thinking on leadership, execution, and the conditions that determine whether strategy survives contact with the organisation.
What Is Digital Transformation? The Configurational Question Your Seat Is Carrying
What is digital transformation, really? A reading of the peer-reviewed evidence on dynamic...
Dynamic Inertia: Why the Analytics You Deployed to Prevent It Are Producing It
A new historical case study of Moody's, published in the Journal of Management Studies, documents...
What Is Digital Transformation? The Configurational Question Your Seat Is Carrying
What is digital transformation, really? A reading of the peer-reviewed evidence on dynamic capabilities, translated to the seat that commissions the work in an Australian mid-market organisation. Published: 10 May 2026 · Last updated: 10 May 2026 · Reading time: 11...
Dynamic Inertia: Why the Analytics You Deployed to Prevent It Are Producing It
A new historical case study of Moody's, published in the Journal of Management Studies, documents dynamic inertia in action: how the most sophisticated algorithmic credit-risk models in finance produced the inertia they were specifically designed to prevent. The...
Mid-market innovation: The configurational question of who sits at the table
A reading of the cross-country empirical evidence on what actually drives innovation in the face of foreign competition, translated to the seat that decides who sits at the leadership team table in an Australian mid-market organisation. Published: 10 May 2026 · Last...
Strategy Lives in the Managerial Interfaces: What Forty Years of Theory Missed
For four decades, the dominant strategy frameworks said almost nothing about managers, and what the recent corrective puts back is not the CEO, but the architecture of managerial interfaces through which strategy actually travels. Published: 10 May 2026 · Last...
The Capabilities Paradox: When Your People Enable and Block Transformation
A new empirical study of 22 incumbent SMEs reports a capabilities paradox. The configurational reading dissolves it. Published: 10 May 2026 · Last updated: 10 May 2026 · Reading time: 11 minutes · By Mark Badger TL;DR, Key Takeaways A new empirical study of 22...
Business Alignment: The Architecture Beneath the Technology
A 2023 empirical study of 129 industry practitioners finds that business alignment, not technology or efficiency, is the strongest predictor of digital transformation success. Published: 10 May 2026 · Last updated: 10 May 2026 · Reading time: 9 minutes · By Mark...
Organisational Agility: Why Your Digital Strategy Has Not Moved Your Transformation
What a 513-respondent study published in the Journal of Business Research reveals about the lever you have been pulling, and the two configurational conditions, organisational agility and digital transformational leadership, you have not. Published: 10 May 2026 · Last...
Digital Transformation Failure: A Configurational Reading of 28 Years of Evidence
A new bibliometric review of 120 peer-reviewed papers spanning 28 years of digital transformation failure literature reveals a pattern the failure literature itself has not been built to detect. Published: 10 May 2026 · Last updated: 10 May 2026 · Reading time: 12...
Structured Digital Strategy: When Structure Becomes a Cage
A reading of the peer-reviewed cross-industry evidence on what a structured digital strategy actually does to a firm's ability to produce disruptive innovation, translated to the seat that decides how much structure to authorise in an Australian mid-market...