Working Out Loud for Teams and Leaders

by | Jul 7, 2016

Last week, we joined in a co-creation effort with an amazing bunch of colleagues at Bosch and John Stepper, author of Working Out Loud, to adapt the basic idea of WOL (Working Out Loud) circles to the challenge of team development and leadership communication, and we...

Diversity-as-a-System

by | Dec 6, 2018

  A 21st century organisation uses systems thinking to enable agility. Shipping working code is an example of a highly valuable system that most startups develop early. Even in the early days these systems are multi-layered across infrastructure (e.g. GitHub),...

Online Identity & Trust-Building 101

by | Sep 13, 2021

In this edition, Livio considers some of the basic steps that leaders need to take to improve their visibility and credibility using digital workplace platforms. Friends reunited Last week, we invited our friend Katharina Krentz to introduce a selected management...

Bridging the Digital Skills Gap in the Digital Workplace

by | Jun 14, 2018

An organisation’s approach to learning is a key success factor in its digital transformation efforts, and we are seeing three areas of focus emerging as predictors of maturity:  how an organisation bridges its digital skills and confidence gaps how an organisation...

Growing communities beyond the edges of the organisation

by | May 31, 2018

This week’s curator Sam Thomas looks at some success stories of communities expanding beyond the edges of their organisations. In digitally mature organisations we are used to seeing strong communities of engaged, self-selecting members gathered around a shared...

Overcoming the challenges of virtual teams

by | Dec 10, 2017

Yesterday morning, I heard my colleague Livio speak at an event hosted by Kemp Little on the challenges of global virtual working. Along with Keith Warburton from Global Business Culture and Marian Bloodworth, Employment Partner at Kemp Little, they explored the...

Practical ideas to level up your social platform

by | May 24, 2017

In the various intranet and social technology conferences I have spoken at this year, I have been surprised by the limited scope and mandate of intranet manager and Enterprise Social Network (ESN) community manager roles in some organisations. In many cases, the role...

Enterprise-wide Agility: Doing versus Being

by | May 4, 2017

“Doing agile is a set of activities, but being agile is the state of mind, the ongoing capability, and the cultural adaptability.” ― Pearl Zhu, Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile When working with global firms seeking to inject agility...

Reflections on Building Digital Leadership Superpowers

by | Mar 30, 2017

This week, we had fun hosting an event on how to discover and nurture digital leaders. We covered key strategies and approaches, which we have derived from both our client work and research (slides below). Building Digital Leadership Superpowers Within Your...

#IWD2017: Bold Change Requires A Mind*Shift For Everyone

by | Mar 8, 2017

The World Economic Forum has pushed back its projection of gender parity by over 50 years, from 2133 to 2186. Today’s economic gender gap, a measure of wage equality and female leadership in business and technology, looks more like it did in 2008 than at its...