Just over a decade ago, my then business partner Tim Morley and I were looking at the business world and saw that there were only a few typical ‘symptoms’ of problems that we tried to address. Many of those symptoms seem very much alive today as well. We noticed that most businesses feel the need…
In this -slightly longer- post, we will discuss a special type of business: family firms. This blog idea was triggered by a blog posting from David Oxley on business change in family businesses (11th July 2017) and a consequent correspondence we had on this. I would like to build on his thinking on business change…
Like many others in today’s business world, I have been involved in many transformation journeys in one form or another. That could be as the responsible transformation programme manager or managing –for instance- the implementation journey associated with it. ‘Inside the fence’, so to say, as an integral part of the client’s team. But, I…
My name is Frank Smits. After my industry career with Exxon Chemical, I have worked for over 20 years as a business change, leadership and transformation consultant. I started in 1996 with PricewaterhouseCoopers, then with the specialised change consultancy Partners for Change Ltd and since 2002 as an independent management consultant via my own business….