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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...
Designing Organisations That Work With The Grain Of Human Cognition
Last week, I gave a quick talk about the relationship between organisational design and human cognition at the Mind in Practice event held at Google Campus in London. The idea was to consider how we can design organisational structures that work with the grain of...
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...
#IWD2017: Bold Change Requires A Mind*Shift For Everyone
The World Economic Forum has pushed back its projection of gender parity by over 50 years, from 2133 to 2186. Today's economic gender gap, a measure of wage equality and female leadership in business and technology, looks more like it did in 2008 than at its high...
Cultural Intelligence Capabilities for Teams & Leaders
The digital world is often described as flat; as a level playing field for companies where location has little to no influence on outcome. But inside large multinational companies the world is decidedly lumpy, with structural and cultural barriers inhibiting flatness...