Connected products and services require a connected company.
Navigating change needs greater agility, adaptability & autonomy.
We help accelerate digital capability development at every level.
We typically work with…
Senior leadership teams on leading change in the digital age and setting digital capability targets
CIOs and technical leaders to accelerate digital adoption and develop digital workplace platforms
L&D and talent teams to spread the skills and competencies needed in the hybrid world of work
Transformation teams to help grow digital movements and accelerate distributed change
Team leads & function heads to address the challenges of building a more agile, adaptive organisation.
Example Projects
Recent Articles
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...
Musing on DAOs, Cybernetic control systems and non-hierarchical structures
We are already seeing the decline of hierarchy as an organising principle for leadership in large organisations, and we have increasing evidence, such as this from Leandro Herrero, that positional authority is far less powerful than networked influence as a way to get...
Principles and Patterns over Dogma and Rules
Transforming our organisations will require huge shifts in basic digital literacy and ways of working for almost every employee outside of technology & development teams. New digital hotspots are starting to emerge, but scaling and replicating these emerging areas...
Overcoming Hidden Obstacles in Transforming Bank Operations
As the COO of a new bank-owned fintech, my first task was to set up the new company's operations to support users on our app and our network of partner merchants. Our goal was to deliver a superior customer experience through intelligent capabilities like...
Getting lost in the organisational cave
Organisations generate rules and guidelines to govern behaviour and to avoid problematic outcomes, but over time these rules can chip away at the sense of ownership, autonomy and accountability that we want to see in a modern workplace. Getting the balance right is...
The Antidote to the Anti-Social Enterprise
Last week, Meta launched its anticipated Threads platform, a Twitter-esque experience, linked to your Instagram account. Ever an early adopter of social media, I signed up, and immediately got a wave of nostalgia from 15 years ago joining Twitter for the first time....