Organisations in the Entrepreneurial Age

by | Nov 24, 2016

From the Etsy store owners, Upworkers, and Uber drivers of the gig economy to the thousands of start-ups taking their place on the starting blocks in the great race to start-up success every year, there’s no doubt that technology has enabled a new era beyond the...

Digital transformation in insurance: beyond CX

by | Apr 29, 2016

Do insurers get FinTech? Coming at a time when, according to Gartner, “half of CEOs expect their industries to be substantially or unrecognizably transformed by digital”, the apparent lack of engagement with FinTech displayed by insurers in a recent...

Enterprise Social Networks: a Higher Purpose?

by | Feb 1, 2016

ESNs are now part of the furniture A basic form of social business collaboration is now an expected feature of the modern workplace, at least in terms of the prevalence of ESN platforms like IBM Connections, Jive and Sharepoint, or chat apps like Slack and Yammer....

Is the idea of disruptive innovation overstated?

by | Jun 17, 2014

Jill Lepore has produced an excellent, well-written and passionate refutation of Clayton Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation in the New Yorker; but I can’t help thinking the target of her piece is not just Christensen’s work, but also...

Foundry launch event: thank you – and pictures!

by | Apr 9, 2014

Last Wednesday evening we hosted the Postshift Foundry launch event and we had a blast. We were excited and thrilled to see the count go all the way up to hundreds of guests – we couldn’t be sure how many of you would make it despite the RSVP! We were...