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Launch announcement: POST*SHIFT is GO!
We are proud to announce that POST*SHIFT is now operational. Our mission: To build 21st Century businesses. We believe that organisations cannot fully benefit from social technology without also addressing questions of structure, culture and practice in a serious way....
The limits of social technology within existing organisational structure and culture
I enjoyed meeting up with friends and colleagues at this week’s E20 Summit in Paris. The slides from my own short talk as part of a panel on leadership and organisational structure are embedded below, but here is a brief summary of the points I was trying to make....
How to scale without losing your mojo
I am a big fan of the Dare Conference, which has created an interesting space for people to share practical skills for digital workers. After enjoying the first edition last year, I agreed to speak at Dare Mini and tell part of my own founder's story. The video of...
Who is building the institutions of the Twenty-First Century ?
The pursuit of innovation and value creation through free market competition and entrepreneurial activity has been one of the greatest drivers of human progress to date. It is not without its problems, of course, but so closely does it mirror the process of adaptation...
What is the role of HR in organisational change?
Becoming a social business is not simply about using a new class of tools. It is about using internal and external networks and relationships to best effect, maximising productivity and developing an agile, resilient culture to improve all aspects of the...
Finance Versus Innovation – Clay Christensen on the Capitalist’s Dilemma
Where will future jobs and productivity come from if the doctrine of finance dictates that we no longer invest in empowering innovation?
Three themes from dConstruct 2013
Some notes and themes from the 2013 dConstruct conference in Brighton concerning how we interact with machines
Grow your own organisational structure
A growing firm should not default to old organisational templates in order to scale, but rather grow your own structure and models along the way
A rose by any other name…
The various strands of social business and E2.0 thinking have helped create a wonderful opportunity to think about how we organise business, but the labels don’t matter
Saying Yes at YxYY
YxYY was a wonderful gathering of playful and purposeful entrepreneurs and businesses
The Occasional Beauty of Industrial Machinery
Found this lovely crane in the Belem harbour in Lisbon
The Shift Has Happened. What Comes Next?
The ideas and technologies of the social web are now mainstream. The question is what’s next: what do we do with it, how will business and society adapt, and how can we accelerate the process?