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Digital Transformation: Why Tech Alone Won’t Cut It
Pick any organisation in the FTSE500 and they will probably have a digital transformation initiative of some kind. Indeed, according to IDC, budgets allocated to be spent on digital transformation globally are forecast to reach an estimated $1.2 trillion - an upward...
Practical ideas to level up your social platform
In the various intranet and social technology conferences I have spoken at this year, I have been surprised by the limited scope and mandate of intranet manager and Enterprise Social Network (ESN) community manager roles in some organisations. In many cases, the role...
Getting ready for Data Ops
We spend so much time deep in the woods trying to help established firms become less divided by vertical hierarchy and more laterally connected, that sometimes it is good to raise our view and consider the prize that lies ahead for those with the courage, imagination...
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 so,...
We are seeking a Marketing Intern
Do you believe that work shouldn’t suck? At Post*Shift, we help companies adopt better ways of working, enabled by digital and enterprise social technologies. We’re seeking a marketing intern to support our inbound and outbound efforts, across our consulting and...
Enterprise-wide Agility: Doing versus Being
“Doing agile is a set of activities, but being agile is the state of mind, the ongoing capability, and the cultural adaptability.” ― Pearl Zhu, Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile When working with global firms seeking to inject agility...
Four Barriers To Becoming An Adaptive Organisation
This week General Electric turns 125, and Vice Chairman Beth Comstock celebrated with the tweet: You don't get to be 125 years old without learning about #change! Happy birthday @generalelectric. At a time when the average lifespan of a listed company is 18 years,...
Digital Workplace Hubs Need Learning Communities
I have enjoyed meeting many intranet and ESN professionals recently at conferences and company workshops. Having worked hard to establish these platforms in their organisations, they now face the challenge of transitioning from running a unified system that was...
Run Your Digital Strategy Through People, Not Presentations
In today’s blog, we discuss some of the insights from the first interviews from our latest research project: Alternative Approaches To Developing Digital Strategy. We are uncovering some fascinating input, but our investigations are still in progress. If you are...
Reflections on Building Digital Leadership Superpowers
This week, we had fun hosting an event on how to discover and nurture digital leaders. We covered key strategies and approaches, which we have derived from both our client work and research (slides below). Building Digital Leadership Superpowers Within Your...
The real reason your digital transformation won’t be done by 2020
Digital transformation may be the most convenient shorthand for today's efforts to digitise business models, organisation and processes, but, never-the-less, the term is far from perfect. The word digital brings its own challenges (because in this context, digital...
New Approaches For Developing Digital Leaders
I am excited to speak this Tuesday on the Building Blocks of a Digital Operating Model, at the CeBIT Enterprise Digital Arena in Hanover. In my talk, I will be taking a deeper look at the connected organisations that produce innovative digital products. There are now...