welcome to the expert talks executive corner by kalkine tv i'm sage and today's guest is
jamie mare maya the founder and head specialist of business at nine carat business consulting
and with the pandemic restrictions causing many businesses to have to pivot and find
alternative strategies and alliances business consultancy has come into the spotlight a nine
carat business consulting redesigns businesses as an enriched and multi-dimensional framework
they invigorate or reinvigorate businesses their foundations futures and approach to progress
so we'll find out more soon and as you know we bring you the industry advocates and business
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and bringing you live today we have jamie meyer founder and head specialist of business at nine
carat business consulting welcome to the show jamie thank you for having me sage
it's a pleasure i mean i'm not sure i need to talk that introduction was pretty amazing
that was just the drum roll we're keen to hear your insights jamie so according to you what's
the one fundamentally more sophisticated way of thinking about business that transcends
limitations i'm pretty sure i only have 10 minutes and i cannot thoroughly answer the question
in an all-encompassing way in 10 minutes but a very short version
is first to recognize that sophistication does not necessarily equate to complexity
the second is that limitations are set by our attitudes and ideas of what business
is or should be and then what we should be within business within that space and thirdly i think
that thinking about business as though it is not a lifeless entity
but rather an ecosystem that requires animation and substance and this is something that's
possible when we consider that business isn't solely reliant on a level of exterior investment
but an investment and interaction of people of both those within that business and outside of it
that's so true thank you for summing that up in a nutshell you've really broken down a complex
idea into something that's a lot more understandable and manageable so how can
businesses move towards achieving a sustainable practice in their success in your opinion
that's a difficult one to answer in such a broad capacity because i do believe that
the actual answer to that question is very specific depending on businesses
so businesses are as an individual as people are and to try and say that there's one way to
achieve that is probably not a recommendation that i have but depending on the size and
level of current success of a business i think that sustainable success is based
more on having an unshakable foundation and and shapeable foundation is something that's
constructed when you have your long-term goals in mind when you were actually starting it so
a lot of people have you know they start a business and they have this small idea of what
it's going to look like and then try and scale it um with that same small foundation and kind
of becomes like jenga and things start falling all over the place and it gets wobbly so a shakeable
foundation and then a thin understanding the velocity and capacity that you have from that
foundation that you've created where you need to make adjustments to it to go further great
thanks so much for sharing your insights and i think you're so right about saying there's no one
copy-pasted one-fits-all solution for every business it is so specific and uh depending
on business goals and business needs it varies so could you please give us your expert opinion
on how businesses should align their relations interactions and environments synergistically
i think all of those things are hinged on
understanding clarity and communication of the values and motivations of any one business
and then how everything that you do and everybody that you come into contact with contributes to
that vision and why i think that a great um disconnect between any kind of synergy
is the fact that we don't have a thorough idea of what we're trying to achieve or we're not
communicating in a way that people understand what they're contributing to when people understand
the impact that their actions have and the impact that they can potentially achieve then there's
a higher level of synergy that's available no matter what the dynamic of the business
well thank you so much for sharing your insights there i had an experience recently which seemed
like a good example of synergy i don't know if you would agree but i had seen a business
advertising something about how tech is affecting the hr department or hr industry i downloaded that
thinking it would be an interesting document to read and maybe invite them on the show they then
called me to see if i needed an update to my hr services here in the office so i found that
synergistic would you think that's the business ecosystem working in a mutually beneficial manner
i depend i suppose it depends if that email
okay so potentially all right they haven't actually
signed up for coming onto expert talks yet but i'm still working on it
okay good luck with that i mean hopefully it is synergistic yeah so um back on the mainline
discussion now could you please talk about business strategies to watch out for in 2022
i i honestly think that that's going to depend on how people have been affected by covert
there's a number of different ways the beautiful thing about covert is that it has opened people's
eyes to breaking some of the myths that have been told about business for you know 40 odd years
whether people decide to throw their hands in the air and not
know what to do because their idea of business has been shattered or whether they decide to actually
step into a new ideal or model of what business can be i think if they decide to not shift then
nothing will change there'll be quite a substantial amount of businesses that continue
to struggle to either recover from covert or understand that there's going to be shifts in
the market i think one of those biggest shifts is the idea of remote work i think that businesses
the idea of business can be restructured and they will be considered restructuring based
on the idea that you can access a greater pool of talent uh having a remote foundation rather
than expecting everybody to be within living distance or driving distance of a premises
and i think that the other biggest thing is that companies now have a really great opportunity to
listen to people i think that you know something about remote work in the past has been quite a
faux pas because we cannot be micromanaged and we don't have people physically at work where we can
enforce and restrict the way that they work every day and i'm hoping that companies are
realizing that in environments where people thrive they're happy and great at granted lockdown isn't
necessarily a choice that people have enjoyed but it is is more of an environment that they
choose to be in every day so the level of productivity and investment and the quality of
our integration before those companies will have elevated so i think that there's a big
shift into remote work and i think that structure structurally that would be the biggest change for
businesses in 2022 um and understanding the way to now capitalize on those kinds of restructures
great well thanks so much for sharing the insights on that and it's interesting to see uh how many
businesses have reduced their carbon footprint by not having to do all the business travel
and instead just use the the video conferencing instead sort of interesting to see how many stick
to that strategy instead of the travel um option and the other one is i think i heard facebook
saying that they're keen to get people back in the office because the level of innovation is actually
a lot less now that people aren't getting their heads together and talking about things in person
instead doing it all online they're finding that it's actually not helping much so they're keen
to get people back in the office um but lastly jamie how is the consulting business in australia
been from your experience and around the pandemic and what have you noticed
this is a hard one because usually when we go into a recession that's a perfect time for a company to
start working on itself you know when they're busy and the economy is booming companies tend not to
have the time to look into those avenues and fix holes because they're so busy just facilitating
growth or market share um so a usual recession you would see an increase in
consulting in australia i think that there's it hasn't necessarily been difficult but it's an
environment to navigate a lot of companies have been closed legitimately closed so had no options
to work or facilitate business for themselves at all and not at any point had any idea of when that
would resume for them so bringing in a consultant in those instances is probably not a decision a
lot of people made it would have probably been a healthy one to make because they could have
explored different ways to then bring them back into business even within the limitations of
lockdowns and then you've got the other side of it where companies did actually had either
had a skeleton crew or were concerned about how they were going to navigate the different
landscape that covert introduced and they heavily invested in consulting so i i think that if you
were a business in 20 to 20 21 you definitely should have invested in a consultant and and
the companies that did i think they thrived the biggest great thank you so much for making time
for the show today your insights were so valuable and i hope you enjoyed our discussion pleasure
sage thanks so much for having me and if you've just joined us we just had a very interesting
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