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
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...
Cultivating Future Leaders by Encouraging and Supporting Change Agents
As part of Social Media Week London, we are hosting a discussion about the role of internal change agents in companies and how and why they should be acknowledged and supported in playing this vitally important change role. Leadership does not just come from above in...
How to Run an Agile Digital Transformation Programme
Digital Transformation is not simply the addition of new technology to existing business and operating models. It goes deeper than that, with implications for all aspects of how we organise the value chain, including the internal structure of the...
Cultivating future leaders of digital transformation
Due to the rise of social tools in the workplace, the growing importance of social media and more recently the impact of digital transformation on how organisations are structured and managed, digital skills and knowledge of new ways of working are now at a premium....
Using internal expertise to drive digital identity in knowledge-intensive firms
Click here for details of our upcoming workshop in London on June 9th. In professional and financial services, as well as other knowledge-intensive sectors, clients care more about the expertise and abilities of those who serve them than they do about the brand...
Growing & Grafting New Organisational Tissue: HR’s Role in Change
We attended HR Tech Europe in London’s Excel Centre this week to meet with HR colleagues and to do some research into the role that HR professionals expect to have in digital transformation efforts within their companies. I gave a couple of talks about how we can move...