We improve organisational performance by helping firms develop & connect their digital business capabilities, drawing on our experience as pioneers of digital ways of working
We take pride in the diligent, detailed approach we take to our work, and aim to leave behind more productive, collaborative teams wherever we go.
To really improve the way an organisation works with emerging technology requires a combination of skills and knowledge that extend way beyond software features and functions – org design, agile and collaborative ways of working, digital leadership, change movements, psychology and personal productivity are also important.
It is our experience and ability to operate confidently across these domains that our clients say they find most valuable.
Some insights into our thinking:
Browse our blog and newsletter archives
Learn what we mean by an Organisational OS
Read our Smarter Simpler Social founding paper
View an interactive history of the digital workplace
Download a sample research report on Digital Strategy
Leadership Team
Explore Our History
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A revelation
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A new vision
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Building the social web
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Award-winning in Legal
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Pursuing org change through social tools
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Re-thinking enterprise IT & collaboration
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Built a great team and learned how to pitch
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We managed one of the craziest online + real-life events ever attempted
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Acquisition, growth and Vegas nights
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Developing social systems to identify actionable data
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A long-term transformation role with Bosch
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Time for another fresh start to refocus on transformation
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A new space
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Developed our approach to agile, distributed transformation
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Exploring organisational capabilities as change goals
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Re-thinking internal functions in an agile organisation
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Capability Mapping for Digital Leaders
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Lisbon, hybrid locations and lots of learning
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Started a new long-term digital capability project
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Greater focus on executive education
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Expanded our curriculum for digital leadership
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Platform development
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Launch of Shift*Base as a new venture
Selected Blog Posts
How Could AI Agents Improve The Co-ordination of Work?
In large organisations today, the dominant form of work co-ordination is still old-fashioned ‘manual’ management and meetings, despite the existence of accessible, simple technologies that could solve this problem more effectively. As The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson...
Small is Beautiful: Cats vs Megamind
In Don’t Fear the Coming Trough of AI Disillusionment, in January, I wrote: “I believe what is emerging in enterprise AI has the potential to accelerate the path towards smart organisations that go beyond the limits of the C20th corporation. But first, we will need to...
How Apple’s late entry could advance multi-agent AI in the enterprise
Enterprise AI Adoption Update Last week saw the publication of an interesting research report from the Asana Work Innovation Lab and Anthropic, which surveyed 5000+ individuals in the UK and USA to assess the current state of AI adoption in the enterprise. The report...
0.48kWh Should be Enough for Anybody
Exciting and Stupid Google has embarrassed itself once again with hasty roll-out of generative AI features, serving up ‘AI overviews’ for search topics that include glue in Pizza recipes, health suggestions such as ‘eat rocks’ and a whole host of confused, basic...
(Don’t) Hail the Chief!
When a new technology or way of working emerges, the first instinct of many organisations is to appoint a Chief X Officer, which provides the comfort of knowing somebody has ‘got this’ and also that there is ‘one throat to choke’ in terms of accountability. And of...
From prompt whispering to model sommeliers: how best to think about the ‘atomic’ nature of LLMs in the AI evolution story?
The controversial investor Chamath Palihapitiya last year re-told a story about the rise of refrigeration that concluded it was not the fridge makers who captured the value their invention created, but firms like Coca-Cola who used the technology to build a global...