Monthly archives: February 2026

DRIVERS Framework
Reading Time: 5 minutesCustomer Experience Has Entered Its Governance Era For more than a decade, customer experience has been discussed as a cultural aspiration – the DRIVERS framework helps executives to understand its impact. Organisations spoke about empathy. They invested in journey mapping, launched listening programmes and tracked sentiment. Yet many leadership teams [...]

Introducing the DRIVERS Framework

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Reading Time: 6 minutesGoverning Service Where Strategy Meets Reality with Enterprise Service Management Organisations rarely collapse because strategy is flawed.They falter when service — the daily delivery of promises — cannot sustain the weight placed upon it. Enterprise service management is not operational plumbing. It is the mechanism through which trust is either [...]

The A–Z of Enterprise Service Management

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+1% Culture
Reading Time: 6 minutesThere is a persistent belief in modern organisations that meaningful performance requires a dramatic intervention. A transformation programme.A system replacement.A strategic reset.A cultural overhaul. Boards often wait for the moment when a bold initiative will propel the organisation forward. Yet when you study consistently successful businesses, a different pattern emerges [...]

Don’t Wait for the Big Fix — Build a +1% ...

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Customer-centric
Reading Time: 6 minutesWhy customer-centric focus fails without governance — and how leaders fix it 1. The uncomfortable truth: most board agendas are still inside-out Most boards would say they put customers first. Very few agendas reflect that claim. Customer topics often appear late in meetings, framed as performance reports rather than decision [...]

How to Build a Customer-Centric Boardroom Agenda

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