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How To Lead In The Age Of Algorithms
Corporate leadership is already struggling to keep up with the connected workforce and increasing speed and complexity in the digital economy. But looking ahead to the rise of algorithmic and human-machine co-working, the situation is even more worrying. A reboot...
The Next Wave Of Utility For Enterprise Social Networks
By 2017, McKinsey predicts that 70% of companies will have an Enterprise Social Network (ESN). Now that these platforms are finally mainstream, we need to focus on how to increase their utility and usefulness for employees and the wider organisation. Adoption and...
Organisations in the Entrepreneurial Age
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...
Can utility companies make the transition to energy platforms?
The past few days, I have been taking part in European Utility Week in Barcelona, where I gave a talk on why the future of connected products and services requires that utility firms become connected companies, and how a business-as-a-platform model is the...
From Pyramid To Platform: The Future Of The Firm In Professional Services
In five years, will professional services firms look a bit more like software companies? On first glance, this might seem implausible. For a very long time, firms have been organised around fee earning partners who crafted reputations based upon expertise and...
The 5 Muscles You Need To Exercise For A Functionally Fit Culture
During the first half of 2014, I trained for and ran two half-marathons, back-to-back. This was a huge achievement for me as for the first time in my life, I didn't get out of breath just from climbing stairs. Finally, I had become the holy grail of "fit". Shortly...
Leading A Digital Generation: The Five Organisational Superpowers You Need
Tuesday, February 18, 2014. That's the day at my previous company when the reality of leading millenials hit me. That morning, when I booted up my laptop, my calendar made me pause. I turned to a junior consultant sitting to my right and said, "I've been at this...
What Crash Diets And Digital Transformation Have In Common
Too often, both crash diets and Digital Transformation go for appearances at the expense of lasting results. Today's Digital Transformation case studies are mostly technology deployments, with some digital labs or hackathon sparkle dust thrown on top. Even efforts to...
Defining the Operating Model for the Digital Enterprise
Earlier this week at the IOM Summit in Cologne, I gave a talk entitled 'Defining the Operating Model for the Digital Enterprise’ that outlined what I think are the two key foundations of a digitally transformed enterprise: An operating system that coordinates work...
Linklog 95: The Robots are coming. But don’t worry, they’re bringing beer.
Robots. AI. The jobs of the future. This week’s curator Christine Overby looks at the frontier of human and machine co-working. The Robots are coming. @christine What’s your big win for the week? This is the first question that I hear every Thursday morning. It...
We are seeking a motivated, committed, energetic Office Organiser
Post*Shift is is a research-led insights and consulting firm dedicated to helping clients address the practical challenges of digital transformation and new ways of working. We are seeking a motivated, super-organised, committed, energetic person with tons of...
Linklog 94: Banking Open Data Challenge
This week’s curator, Livio Hughes, shares some early thoughts on the challenges faced by banks in complying with the upcoming open data regulations and picks 5 links for further reading on the topic. Open data innovation: can banks do it? Since writing my last post,...