🎙️ Business Transformation Podcast – Episode #41

🎧 Slow is Fast: Business Architecture, Change Management & the Illusion of Efficiency with Jim Landgraf | Business Transformation Podcast [041]

In this episode of the Business Transformation Podcast, host Heath Gascoigne speaks with Jim Landgraf—a “business cartographer,” transformation strategist, and author of Slow is Fast. Jim shares his unique perspective on mapping business landscapes, why "marketecture" is a dangerous distraction, and how to find the signal in the digital storm.

💡 What you'll learn in this episode:

• The "Liminal Layer" – Creating a safe, abstract space for strategy and execution to meet.
• The Danger of Marketecture – Why noise in transformation leads to the illusion of efficiency.
• Value Stream Alignment – Why understanding what you do is more important than how you do it.
• The Myth of Tool-Driven Change – Why technology without policy is just expensive waste.
• Maturity vs. Aspiration – Why you don't always need to be a "Level 5" and how to find your right level.

• “Architecture provides the view. You bring the lens.” – Jim Landgraf

• “The tools don’t boss us — we are the bosses of the business, not the other way around.” – Jim Landgraf

• “If you have 100 reports you don't look at, automating them to 1,000 is just more noise. That's the illusion of efficiency.” – Jim Landgraf

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👤 About the Guest: Jim Landgraf is a business cartographer, transformation strategist, and author of Slow is Fast: Analog Wisdom in a Digital Storm. With 20+ years of experience, Jim helps organizations map out value-aligned transformation strategies that stick—without drowning in frameworks or noise.

👨‍💼 About the Host: Heath Gascoigne is the founder of HOBA Tech and author of the 6x international bestseller The Business Transformation Playbook. Creator of the HOBA® framework, Heath helps leaders align strategy, design, and implementation to drive transformation that works—the first time, on time.

🎙️ About the Podcast: The Business Transformation Podcast features real stories and practical insights from global transformation leaders. If you're involved in strategy execution, enterprise change, or technology-enabled business redesign, this is your behind-the-scenes pass into how high-impact transformations actually succeed (or fail).