Learning to lead

by | May 10, 2018

This week, Cerys Hearsey examines how individuals can learn how to lead in the fast-paced, volatile, complex conditions experienced by large organisations today. Organisations recognise that leadership happens at all levels of the organisation. So it should be easier...

Empowered Teams Need Enabling Leadership

by | Apr 19, 2018

Recently I’ve been seeing some pushback against the buzz around employee empowerment. Like any management trend, there is a valid critique to be voiced when an organisation talks about empowering their employees, but in reality doesn’t follow through and...

The Cadence of Accountability

by | Feb 22, 2018

One of the first changes a team notices when making the move from traditional ways of working to something more agile and flexible, is how often the words accountable, responsible and ownership crop up in team discussions. Often used interchangeably, they soon become...

Overcoming the challenges of virtual teams

by | Dec 10, 2017

Yesterday morning, I heard my colleague Livio speak at an event hosted by Kemp Little on the challenges of global virtual working. Along with Keith Warburton from Global Business Culture and Marian Bloodworth, Employment Partner at Kemp Little, they explored the...

Digital Leadership 101 (in defence of senior leaders)

by | Sep 14, 2017

Senior leaders can get a bad rap. They often get the blame for many of the failings of digital transformation programmes. I’ve had countless conversations with clients, friends and colleagues tearing their hair out as executives refuse to engage with new ways of...

Avoiding the pitfalls of Robotic Process Automation

by | Aug 24, 2017

Organisations are poised for a revolution in the back office – emerging technologies like Robotic Process Automation (RPA) open up the potential for exponential gains. RPA is set to see processes carried out faster, with fewer errors, 24/7 – after all...

Give me your huddled data masses

by | Jun 13, 2017

For a large organisation to be agile, frontline employees – and not just executives – need to make higher-order decisions. This requires an open, self-serve data architecture, and a workforce with the right data skills to make the most of it. Our own data from our...

Digital Transformation: Why Tech Alone Won’t Cut It

by | Jun 1, 2017

Pick any organisation in the FTSE500 and they will probably have a digital transformation initiative of some kind. Indeed, according to IDC, budgets allocated to be spent on digital transformation globally are forecast to reach an estimated $1.2 trillion – an...

Enterprise-wide Agility: Doing versus Being

by | May 4, 2017

“Doing agile is a set of activities, but being agile is the state of mind, the ongoing capability, and the cultural adaptability.” ― Pearl Zhu, Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile When working with global firms seeking to inject agility...