Personal observations while on vacation in Sardinia I write this as I chomp down on pieces of a cool, ripe, sweet white melon from Sardinia, picked from a farm just a couple of days ago. My family and I had a chance to visit friends in Cabras, on the south-western…

The rising popularity of business models as a ‘buffer’ construct — Business Strategy, Business Models, and Business Processes are presented as points along the same continuum of business operations between the conceptualization, planning and execution steps in an enterprise. The impact of a pivot on the strategy can have a potentially tremendous impact on your business model and business processes. Strategy…

What should life beyond 50 be? — Zipping by 50 last year I still see my 50th birthday in the distance of my life’s rear-view mirror of May last year. I didn’t have time to celebrate it. Of course, there was nowhere to celebrate as nothing was open anyway because of the pandemic, but I was also going at full speed on…

Emergent EU framework for ESG has far reaching implications on your data strategy — Primer: ESG is an acronym for Environment, Society, and Corporate Governance. …

Use your business processes to embed ESG principles — ESG is an acronym for Environment, Social, and Governance — three umbrella factors that businesses are being evaluated against, besides their earnings, by a range of stakeholders including investors, institutions, authorities, customers, employees, and communities in which businesses operate. There has been a steady rise in Boardroom discussions about ESG…

Watch out! Your Dirty Laundry Will Be In Plain Sight — In short… Demand forecasting has typically been an internal affair, at most seen by and collaborated with your B2B customer. Adopting ESG reporting will change this, stepping up the elusive search for better logic, methods, and analysis for demand forecasting. ESG factors are impacted by your demand forecast in both direct and…

ESG Reporting — Proposed Solutions and Roadmap Approach — In Part 2 of this series, we discussed the burning platform and the nexus of 3 critical factors that are making ESG Reporting both important and urgent. …

ESG Reporting is the roadblock — how to deal with it — In Part 1 of this series, we explained the fundamentals of understanding ESG factors and their urgency and importance for companies. In this part, we dive into the critical factors and highlight the most immediate roadblock — ESG Reporting. We are at a critical intersection today We are at the nexus of 3 important factors: 1) Consumers…

A holistic approach taken one step at a time — In the past 5 years, we have witnessed the rise of the term ‘ESG’, an acronym for Environment, Social, and Governance. Its rise has been evident mostly in financial services circles, but has spilled over to the general marketplace and has reached the masses through mainstream media articles in Medium…