Connecting the company to connect the experience

by | Jan 18, 2018

Overcoming functional silos is high on the list of pain points of most organisations. Important to know is all silos lead to detrimental insularity. This causes teams to lose alignment with the wider org, which has lots of negative knock-on effects. Silos...

Hiring for curiosity

by | Jan 4, 2018

More so than ever before, we see business models becoming more fluid, having to change to keep up with the dynamics of their market environment. Even large, traditional organisations are looking at structures such as Spotify’s tribe model or Haier’s autonomous...

Adopting Scaling Frameworks

by | Dec 21, 2017

When organisations begin ‘going agile’, one topic that seems to be debated endlessly is which scaling framework to use – there are a fair few plus variations to choose from: SAFe, LeSS, scrum of scrums etc. I’ve worked with organisations to implement and...

Overcoming the challenges of virtual teams

by | Dec 10, 2017

Yesterday morning, I heard my colleague Livio speak at an event hosted by Kemp Little on the challenges of global virtual working. Along with Keith Warburton from Global Business Culture and Marian Bloodworth, Employment Partner at Kemp Little, they explored the...

Innovation labs are failing. What comes next?

by | Nov 30, 2017

Innovation labs operating at the edge of a company, focusing solely on innovation and R&D were at the height of popularity just a year or so ago, but are now closing at an ever-increasing rate. These siloed, trendy workspaces, that have little contact with the...

Procurement as an interface

by | Nov 13, 2017

I had a very interesting session last week with procurement leads responsible for sourcing legal and consulting work for major organisations. I came to the session wanting to talk about service-oriented, not product- or project-oriented strategic sourcing, and to lay...