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The digital wave that sweeps everything around is so strong that many have been led to speak about the fourth industrial revolution. More and more organizations of all kinds and sizes are striving to find their way in this modern environment… And this is quite understandable, since all of them need to transform themselves digitally, even for ensuring their own survival. However, in order for them to be successfully transformed digitally, they have to learn how they may be transformed anyway. And this seems to be today more relevant than ever!   The main characteristic of the first three industrial revolutions was that machines mainly contributed to the increasing of the efficiency of human effort, which in turn led to an increased productivity by orders of magnitude. They therefore essentially helped in doing things that were being done in the past anyway but in a better way. In this context, the use of the concepts of scale and specialization helped humanity to answer a lot of...

All plans will eventually fail... No matter how carefully one plans, no matter how detailed his or her plans are, no matter the quantity and the quality of the information that he or she has used in order to build them, his or her plans will eventually fail. And they will fail because there is no way that anybody, no matter how clever, no matter how creative he or she is, he or she can ever take into consideration all the possible contingencies. They will simply fail because of change! And if this is the case, a plausible question that would normally arise is why one should plan at all… There is however a good reason for this!   If one does not know where one wants to go, all possible routes would lead him or her there… In the planning process one has to figure out a starting and an ending point. One has to therefore deeply know where one stands and where one wants to go. And this is not a simple task at all simply because knowing where one stands is equivalent to deeply knowin...