THE BREAKTHROUGH INSIGHTS
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP AND UPDATES FROM THE TEAM
3 UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS
WHY YOUR ORGANISATION’S TRANSFORMATION EFFORT IS FAILING The last couple of weeks have been even more full of travel and meetings than my standard schedule. All of these interactions with business leaders, from a variety of industries, led me to generate powerful insights. Where most people hate airports, I find that airport-time creates the white space to reflect. In doing so, 3 key [...]
BREAKTHROUGH BUSINESS LEADER : THE 5 DISTINCTIONS
What are the 5 distinctions of a Breakthrough Business Leader? How does a $2 billion dollar company become a $5 billion company in a few years? Why do some companies excel at innovation, while others fail to sustain their growth engine? The key to exceptional business is exceptional people, and to transform your people, you must build a culture [...]
MUSGRAVE: A BREAKTHROUGH TRANSFORMATION CASE STORY
In July 2014, Breakthrough Global was contacted by Musgrave Group’s CEO, Chris Martin. Chris was passionate about transforming and turning the business and Musgrave leadership team around following the recession and declining market share as a result of competitor pressure. He wanted rapid, sustainable growth that would secure the future of the heritage family business. Many areas were not delivering, [...]
JDE BUSINESS CULTURE: FROM MERGER TO FULLY-INTERGRATED CHAMPIONS OF COFFEE DEMOCRACY
Breakthrough transformed the JDE business culture by reaching 3,000 of JDE’s 12,000 employees worldwide, providing them with the capabilities that would be the bedrock of the newly-formed company’s culture of ‘Pride and Performance’. BUSINESS CASE FOR JDE BUSINESS CULTURE TRANSFORMATION In 2015, Mondelez International Coffee and D.E. Master Blenders, merged to create the second largest coffee company in the world, [...]
BREAKTHROUGH POWER TIME PRINCIPLES
Time is one of our most valuable resources. In business today time is a critical factor. There never seems to be enough of it to accomplish what we want. Deadlines get tighter. There is more to do on a daily basis in less time. We measure time in smaller and smaller degrees. Yet it isn’t the quantity of time that [...]
A DIGITAL MINDSET IS A BREAKTHROUGH MINDSET
Consultants over-complicate Digital and the Digital Mindset to try to trick corporates into spending millions. In this article Breakthrough's Director of Digital Transformation de-bunks the complexity and explains why Digital Transformation is about putting your people first. What do we mean by Digital? We work with global clients and what we’ve found is that when I talk about ‘Digital Disruption’ [...]