Curating An Adaptive Wine Business - Michael Walton
Curating An Adaptive Wine Business - Michael Walton
Curating An Adaptive Wine Business - Michael Walton
CURATING AN
ADAPTIVE WINE BUSINESS
TODAYS SESSION
▸ Strong organisations are deeply reflective. They know their
mission and core values. This allows them to adapt and
make choices efficiently as the environment changes
▸ Forces of Change
▸ The Nature of Change
▸ Ways Forward
INSTITUTE OF MASTERS OF WINE SYMPOSIUM 2018, LOGRONO SPAIN
FORCES OF CHANGE
1. WHAT HAPPENED TO TAYLOR SWIFT’S
ONLINE COMPETITION FOR HER PLAY AT
YOUR SCHOOL …
a) It broke the internet
c) Who is Taylor Swift and what does her wine taste like?
b) Wearables
c) Fidget Spinners
b) A 1% increase in volume
4 8.7
3
5.9
2
2.8
1
1.8
0
b) Netflix
c) Domino’s Pizza
d) Amazon
6. IWSR ESTIMATES GLOBAL WINE
MARKET VALUES AT $224B IN 2021.
HOW BIG WILL CHINA & THE US BE …
a) $23b and $45b respectively
b) Critical thinking
c) Creativity
d) Emotional Intelligence
INSTITUTE OF MASTERS OF WINE SYMPOSIUM 2018, LOGRONO SPAIN
WAYS FORWARD
CAN
TECHNOLOGY
WORK BESIDE
US TO BUILD
NEW
EXPERIENCE
CAN WE
RETHINK WHAT
OUR VINEYARD
ASSETS MIGHT
REALLY BE
ABLE TO
OFFER?
CAN WE RESET OUR CONSUMER MODELS TO
BETTER COMMUNICATE ….
CAN WE RESET OUR
ORGANSISATION?
• NEW STRUCTURE
• LIVED VISION
• EMBRACING NEW
MODELS OF
WORKING
CAN WE RESET OUR
ORGANSISATION?
• NEW STRUCTURE
• LIVED VISION
• EMBRACING NEW
MODELS OF
WORKING
CAN WE RESET OUR
ORGANSISATION?
• NEW STRUCTURE
• LIVED VISION
• EMBRACING NEW
MODELS OF
WORKING
CAN WE RESET OUR
ORGANSISATION?
• NEW STRUCTURE
• LIVED VISION
• EMBRACING NEW
MODELS OF
WORKING
YOUR ORGANISATION
▸ When did you last have a real review about what drives your
team?
▸ They can define their brands role for a retailer in the category or restaurant or store
▸ They are constantly learning and sharing about its existing and potential customers.
Even better if you talk to those that left.
▸ They celebrate experience above all. They Invite their customers into their “community’.
They do it in an easy digitally savvy way. They probably do the same type of thing with
their retailer partners
WHAT MIGHT A “BEST IN CLASS”
ADAPTIVE WINE BUSINESS LOOK LIKE?
▸ They have a set of core values and mission that as large a pool of staff as possible have
created and identify with. It’s honoured in decision making.
▸ Teams are led with intellectual humility, care and encouragement. Failure is celebrated.
▸ Individuals are rewarded directly in line with the core values and mission
“Change management would not be the industry it
is if organizations were changing. Change
management is huge precisely because
organizations are not fundamentally changing”
Zuboff, S. & Maxmin, J. (2002) The Support Economy: Why Corporations are Failing
Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism. New York: Allen Lane, p.21.
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WH GORE
▸ Everyone should know everyone
▸ Anyone can talk directly with anyone
▸ Project-based. Not functional
▸ Teams decide bonuses based on contributions – past,
present and future
SEMCO
▸ Extreme internal democracy
▸ Dynamic, open and changeable
LINCOLN ELECTRIC
▸ Major focus on “social capital”
▸ Special focus on trust.
WISETECH
▸ Core values and mission
▸ Enshrined in key “slogans” for testing behaviour and choices
internally
REFERENCES:
▸ World Economic Forum | The Future of Jobs 2016
▸ Also :
CONSUMER CONFIDENCE
B. United States
C. United Kingdom
D. Australia
5 COUNTRY CONSUMER SNAPSHOT
CONSUMER % SAY POSITVE % SAY A GOOD TREND
CONFIDENCE ABOUT THEIR FINANCES TIME TO BUY
THINGS
AUSTRALIA 91 51 42 ➡
NEW ZEALAND 103 58 48 ⬆
UNITED 102 53 53 ➡
KINGDOM
UNITED STATES 123 70 63 ⬆
CHINA 108 61 51 ➡
THE QUIZ
B. Trend Stops –
Closures at 2015
levels
C. Trend Reverses –
Back to Historically
High Levels of
4500-600 stores
D. Something Much
Worse
THE QUIZ
▸ NZ the largest driver of Sauvignon Blanc & the largest growth driver in imported wines (+15%)