Accelerating Towards a Future-Fit HR

At a recent event in London for CHROs, HR professionals highlighted the speed of their own function’s transformation as a key challenge. Not keeping pace with the wider organisation’s change agenda means lots of change fronts opening up simultaneously, hampering the...

The ESN as an Engine for Employee Experience Improvement

We have worked with enterprise social networks (ESNs) for over 15 years, helping organisations to create a connected context, networks and communities to support new ways of working and overcome the harmful effects of silos. In Munich this week, at the 15th Social...

Why “not enough time” is no excuse

  We do a lot of work with organisations to help embed new ways of working enabled by the digital workplace. One of the most commonly cited barriers to adoption of modern work techniques is employees who think they lack the time to try new things. More often than...

Diversity-as-a-System

  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),...

The Tell-tale Heart of Team Failure

  “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.” – John Burroughs At the end of a conference presentation, I was recently asked “how can I tell if an enterprise agile team is failing?”. A question for which I...