Why “not enough time” is no excuse

  We do a lot of work with organisations to help embed new ways of working enabled by the digital workplace. One of the most commonly cited barriers to adoption of modern work techniques is employees who think they lack the time to try new things. More often than...

Four Barriers To Becoming An Adaptive Organisation

This week General Electric turns 125, and Vice Chairman Beth Comstock celebrated with the tweet: You don’t get to be 125 years old without learning about #change! Happy birthday @generalelectric. At a time when the average lifespan of a listed company is 18...

Four Areas of AI Readiness We Need to Improve

We all have high hopes for the impact of AI and smart automation on the enterprise, but without urgent action on organisational readiness, the biggest improvements and productivity gains will likely be out of reach. As Dave Wright and Brian Solis wrote for CIO...

Avoiding the Upskilling Whack-a-Mole

Employees trying to up-skill face a real dilemma, one which becomes even more acute when their organisation is undergoing transformation: on one hand, they are caught in the prevailing cult of bare minimum learning, and on the other, the organisation’s ever-changing...

What Does it Mean to Move From Projects to Products?

As organisations work through the transformation efforts needed for increased agility, some of the required mindset shifts can easily be forgotten in the flush of initial speed, breaking things (with permission 😉 ) and training – and then abandoned. One mindset...