253: Boost Chances To Successfully Transform

28 Aug 2023 | Oliver Only Solo Shows, Podcast

253: Boost Chances To Successfully Transform - The Retail Transformation Show with Oliver Banks

Publish Date

28 August 2023

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Oliver Banks

In a world where digital technologies and changing consumer behaviour have made transformation business-critical, it’s vital to avoid small delays and unseen challenges that can snowball into larger issues. Join Oliver Banks for this episode and explore the importance of assessing your transformation to help overcome the challenges that block transformation efforts. Oliver introduces the new Retail Transformation Tune-Up service and encourages you to reflect on how you can optimise your transformation strategies and approach.

Listen to this episode to hear:

  • Understand the critical business problems that often block transformation efforts, from an inadequate understanding of the business problems to cultural resistance to change.
  • Learn why it’s important to audit and assess the transformation to identify unnoticed issues, foresee pitfalls, and provide recommendations for course correction.
  • Discover the ‘Retail Transformation Tune-Up’ – a comprehensive service designed to optimise your strategies and approach and maximise your chances of success.

 

Tune-up your transformation

Oliver Banks and OB&Co are here to help you transform better. If you’d like to learn more about the Transformation Tune-Up service which will help maximise your changes of successful transformation, then email oliver.banks@obandco.uk or message Oliver Banks on LinkedIn.

Together, we’ll drive your retail transformation forwards.

Additional podcast episodes to listen to next

If you’d like to explore more episodes of the Retail Transformation Show podcast, check out these 3 episodes.

Firstly, in episode 250: Becoming Fit For The Future, join Oliver to discover 5 elements to becoming fit for the future, and how to re-engineer your business based on these 5 elements.

250: Becoming Fit For The Future - The Retail Transformation Show with Oliver Banks

Next, in episode 229: To Disrupt Or Not To Disrupt, discover how disruptive transformation can drive growth and profitability for your business. Oliver shared the key considerations and opportunities that exist with this type of transformation.

229: To Disrupt Or Not To Disrupt- The Retail Transformation Show with Oliver Banks

Also, check out episode 210: Making Marginal Gains To Drive Profit where Oliver Banks shares 10 ideas to deliver smaller projects which collectively will help drive growth and profitability.

210: Making Marginal Gains To Drive Profit - The Retail Transformation Show with Oliver Banks

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