A digital thinker and practitioner who is passionate about using technology to create more effective, human organisations that are better adapted to the volatile modern world.
Lee is passionate about using social technology to put humans front and centre of the way we do things in the Twenty-First Century.
He has been playing with words and computers since the age of 10, but it was in the mid-1990s, whilst working in international politics and diplomacy, that he discovered the immense power of the internet to influence and orchestrate change.
He believes social networks, not bureaucracies, are the organising principle of the current era, and is excited about further exploring new forms of highly connected organisations.
Natural habitat:
Food road-tripping through the Iberian peninsula
Obsessions:
Espresso, pixel-perfect alignment, editing
Bad habit:
Obsessive infovore filter feeder
Interests:
Geo-politics, football, food and wine
Videos from the archive
Selected Blog Posts
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...
Digital Transformation Goals for Customer Experience
I gave a talk at last week’s Customer Experience / Digital Leadership event in London, and had some very interesting conversations about the priorities for digital transformation in customer experience. It fascinates me that products are changing so much faster than...
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...
Moving from Social Technology towards an Operating System for the Organisation
This is a summary of a talk I gave this week to the Stuttgart Social Forum at the Bosch R&D Campus in Renningen, and you can view the accompanying slides here. What is the use case for organisational structure? The rise of social technology in the workplace...
The Future of the Firm in Professional Services
Many sectors and types of firm are at risk of disruption from digital business models and services, and their organisational structures and practices face a myriad of challenges rooted in new technologies and the ways of working they make possible. Professional...
Transformation at the speed of Haier
The Financial Times published an update on Chinese firm Haier's ongoing transformation yesterday that provides a useful insight into the thinking of CEO Zhang Ruimin. We have documented some of the Haier story and its innovative management techniques in Shift*Base for...