Disruptive Change

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Implementing constant (disruptive) change is an absolute must in today's business environment. This slide deck offers the foundational considerations necessary to educate businesses on the need to embrace change in the workplace in order to survive.

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Disruptive Change

When Trying Harder… is Part of the Problem

with Gary Westfal

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Change is Progress!

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Change vs.

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Implementing constant (disruptive) change into your

business will result in extraordinary growth

Two Choices…

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Custom tailored solutions

Vs. numbers-driven production

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The only Guarantee

Is Change!

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Redefine

Re-imagine

Re-think Relevance!

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16of the Top 25 Companies! (2000-2010)

90Percent of Fortune 500 companies! (Since 1955)CL

OSED

!

Why?

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Lack of money?

Lack of intellect?

Companies simply fail to evolve, improve, change, grow, and redefine themselves and paid the ultimate consequence for inaction.

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Changing Demographics & Technological Advancements Have Re-Shaped Businesses

• Former third-world nations embracing technology & becoming business powerhouses

supported by middle class populations larger than that of the U.S.

• Start-ups

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• Technology that has changed customer demands & expectations

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Two Realities –

1. No Growth = Inability to attract/retain the best qualified people

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Two Realities –

2. No changes, innovation or improvement = inability to respond to dynamic customer demands

The Sobering Result…

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The Sobering Result: Faltered growth eventually leading to irrelevance and ultimately to failure

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Two Primary responsibilities of a leader:

1. Keep a highly motivated team of people together

2. Make sure the team stays ahead of an emerging base of customers whose needs/desires are constantly changing

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To be Static is foolish.

Stalled companies statistically lose

75% of their market value once they begin to stall/decline.

Collateral staff losses.

CEOs and senior leaders replaced in an effort to adapt, overcome and save the business.

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Innovation Doesn’t Always Trump Change!

Sometimes a simple change is enough…

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Innovation Doesn’t Always Trump Change!

Changes come in many forms and are not specifically limited to your product line.

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Cultural

Economic

Demographic

Technological

Conventional Wisdom Won’t Work

One of the most important decisions a leader will make is to

determine the cultural foundation of the organization.

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Corporate Culture…

The shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices of an organization.

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Corporate Culture is created in one of two ways:

Leadership-Driven: A message of corporate ethos that everyone must know and practice

Default: Ad hoc approach to accepting norms and practices that don’t support the interests of the company

• Quality• Service• Standards• Innovation• Communication

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A Culture of Change

Engaged Workforce

Innovation

Customer satisfaction/Loyalty

Growth

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Customer Experience

The business that offers the best customer experience in a particular category wins!

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Successful Companies Are Giving Customers What they want – Before They Even Know They

Want it

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Beacon

Low-cost hardware device that utilizes a battery-friendly low-energy Bluetooth connection to transmit messages or prompts directly to a smartphone or tablet.

Consumer Demand is ALWAYS Changing

When a company isn’t responsive to consumer demand…

When a company is responsive to consumer demand…

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Consumers are waiting for the next opportunity to spend

money.

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Vendors and suppliers grow.

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Investors/Shareholder expectations.

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Change Killers

Yesterday’s Winners

Ego

Stagnation

Conventional Wisdom

Entitlement

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Risk Averse

Small Bets, Big Yields

Businesses that operate best in an environment of change simply don’t get blindsided by visions of grandeur and huge payoffs.

Instead, a more successful strategy is to take lots of incremental bets…

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Who Stays…and Who Goes

CEOs must have the right people in place at every conceivable level

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Who Stays…and Who Goes

People aren’t the most important resource...

The right people are the

only resource.

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Who Stays…and Who Goes

Companies committed to radical change and growth

recruit and hire workers who exhibit the following qualities:

Basic intellect and lifelong learners

Solid work ethic

Loyal and adventurous

Optimistic

Business minded/customer oriented

Belonging/committed

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Now What?

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Be Decisive.

Be proactive.

Embrace change.

Operate with an expectation of change

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Be Proactive!

When forced to react, do so decisively

Operate with Strategy instead of Tactics

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