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Linklog 2: new structures, management, the future of HR and forecasting
Interesting things we have found this week about building 21st Century business. NEW STRUCTURES How Spotify scaled up agile principles to create its own product-focused organisational structure. Frederic Laloux discusses the space between hierarchy and...
Welcome to our Newsy Linklog issue 1
Interesting things we have found this week about building 21st Century business. ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Google's Eric Schmidt on how to strategically run a company in the 21st Century where product advancements and hiring successes will decide your...
How can we address the main cause of integration failure in M&A deals?
Mergers and acquisitions represent a large and strategically important element of business growth. The number and value of deals has been increasing in the past two years, and this trend is expected to continue until at least 2016, according to Deloitte’s 2014 M&A...
SMW Party: thank you – and speakers list
On Tuesday, we hosted our Social Media Week Party together with our friends from Somewhere. The aim was to party with a purpose - to help rediscover the empowering potential and pioneering spirit of social media and social technology through some off-the-cuff...
Openness is the best defence
I really enjoyed spending a few days last week in the historic city of Prizren, Kosovo, at the inaugural Doku:tech conference, held in the open air overlooked by the fort that gives the city its name. The event was organised by Kushtrim Xhakli alongside the...
Reclaiming the Headshift history
Today we are proud to announce the launch of the Headshift archives. A little over a year ago, we published our founding blog post, in which we asked "what comes next?", now that social business has become mainstream. Specifically, what do we do with it, how will...
Digital transformation requires better organisational structures
The following is an outline of the keynote I gave today at the 7th Social Business Forum in Milan, with slides embedded at the bottom of the post. >>You may also be interested to read our research report on The Barriers to Digital Transformation which includes...
Reporting on our Workshop ‘Organising for Social’
Last week we ran a workshop on the topic of ‘Organising for Social’, looking at how social teams can and should play a bigger role in improving the business as a whole. It was an early preview of an upcoming series of events we will be organising in the coming months....
Is the idea of disruptive innovation overstated?
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 the New York Times'...
External engagement requires better internal organisation
As part of the work we do helping organisations overcome legacy structural and cultural barriers to new ways of working, we look at areas of the business that suffer disconnects and silo problems. One of these is often the relationship between externally-facing...
Foundry launch event: thank you – and pictures!
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 genuinely moved...
Hy Summit Berlin brings together corporates & startups to share ideas
The Hy Summit in Berlin was a great attempt to bring together the corporate world and the startup scene, with senior people from Bosch, Siemens, Axel Springer and other firms rubbing shoulders with some fantastic startups and European VCs. The atmosphere and...