A primer for business leaders on the digital workplace

With so attention now paid to culture, teams, and organisational change, we are surprised by how many discussions still miss the enabling role of social technologies. Yes, the digital workplace is a big topic amongst internal communications managers and technologists,...

Rethinking the role of your digital team

In our most recent research, many CIOs and CDOs complained that their digital strategy has only affected the edge of the business. Digging into this, we see that one of the biggest root causes is the siloed digital team. Originally separated from the business to...

How do we design new organisational structures?

At Post*Shift, we are interested in not only new organisational structures, but also the process of prototyping, testing, and implementing these designs. We would like to share three ideas on the structural elements of a digital operating model that fascinate us: Open...

Resisting the fate of the big, dumb company

Recently we have been doing a lot of speaking on agile transformation within complex, distributed organisations. We always include examples of how large companies are making it work – we want to show that it is possible to be big and agile at the same time. Even...

Don’t Forget ‘Soft Skills’ When Closing The Digital Gap

Most organisations currently have digital skills gaps that are holding back change. In interviews with digital and HR executives, both groups cite the lack of digital skills and values as the biggest barrier to transformation. Governments and corporates alike are...