We helped pioneer digital ways of working in the enterprise 20 years ago, and continue to improve organisational performance by helping firms develop their strategic digital business capabilities
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:
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Learn what we mean by an Organisational OS
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Leadership Team
Explore Our History
A revelation
A new vision
Building the social web
Award-winning in Legal
Pursuing org change through social tools
Re-thinking enterprise IT & collaboration
Built a great team and learned how to pitch
We managed one of the craziest online + real-life events ever attempted
Acquisition, growth and Vegas nights
Developing social systems to identify actionable data
A long-term transformation role with Bosch
Time for another fresh start to refocus on transformation
A new space
Developed our approach to agile, distributed transformation
Exploring organisational capabilities as change goals
Re-thinking internal functions in an agile organisation
Capability Mapping for Digital Leaders
Lisbon, hybrid locations and lots of learning
Started a new long-term digital capability project
Greater focus on executive education
Expanded our curriculum for digital leadership
Platform development
Selected Blog Posts
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Lee considers the debate around AGI, AI as a platform and the immense potential of modular operations + AI to improve the way we build and manage organisations Making Brains vs Connecting Brains My co-founder Livio and I used to share an apartment in London in the...
Developing Long-Term Workforce Capabilities is Better Than Boom & Bust Hiring/Firing
Thousands of employees have recently been ‘let go’ from some of the biggest tech companies in the world, as evidenced by sites like layoffs.fyi. Why is that? Many of the big players have released statements citing over-hiring during lockdown, when e-commerce surged,...
Organisational Radical Candor FTW
Cerys explores missed opportunities for radical, two-way discussions L&D are avoiding in their quest for simple, KPI-friendly projects. It is both a cliché and a truism that change is hard and that it never ends. And whilst trying to make employees feel safe,...
Organisational Evolution & the Power of Competitive Ecosystems
5 perspectives on how to harness the power of evolution within competitive environments to improve our organisations. Kevin Kelly is a kind of techno-elder, and I often enjoy his musings, such as this interview with Noah Smith that references ‘What Technology Wants’,...
The cult of bare minimum learning
The past few years have seen an increasing investment in solving the growing digital skills gap within organisations. There are pockets of employees, even in leadership, who adopt learned helplessness with a chuckle - as if it is OK to lead in the digital age without...
Let’s (Not) Make Bots In Our Own Image
Approximation & Interpolation It is impossible to ignore the wave of excitement, hype and alarm that the launch of ChatGPT - and its recent adoption by Microsoft as an enhancement to its Bing search engine - has created in the past couple of weeks. Co-founder Sam...