The role of IT in digital transformation

by | May 26, 2016

There is still a fundamental difference in understanding between IT and the business when looking at how digital contributes to organisational capabilities. Digital has been a key agenda item for some years now. You could (wrongly) assume that most corporations...

The Secret to Getting Ahead is Getting Started

by | May 12, 2016

A key challenge for organisations approaching digital transformation is knowing where to start. There are many reports available about the why, how and when of Digital Transformation. After reading them, you might think it sounds like a simple process for...

Changing the Way we Think to Change our Organisation

by | May 3, 2016

Here at Post*Shift, we recently had the pleasure of hosting the author Dave Gray for a glimpse into the world of his new book ‘Liminal Thinking’. Dave had set out to write a book on agile, but his research into the difficulty of scaling agile practices in...

Linklog 59: Org design, scaling with agile and ways of working

by | Dec 10, 2015

ORGANISATIONAL DESIGN Should organisational structures define how we build tech? Why it’s important that your company acts as a unified whole. Four principles to help balance organisational design.   SCALING WITH AGILE How to do agile scaling while...

Organisations in the age of algorithms

by | Oct 6, 2015

Earlier this week, I gave a talk at the excellent State of the Net event in Milan about organisations in the age of algorithms. I have embedded the slides at the bottom of this post, but here is an outline of what I had to say. This is an exciting time for...