Reporting on our Workshop ‘Organising for Social’

by | Jun 19, 2014

Last week we ran a workshop on the topic of ‘Organising for Social’, looking at how social teams can and should play a bigger role in improving the business as a whole. It was an early preview of an upcoming series of events we will be organising in the coming months....

Is the idea of disruptive innovation overstated?

by | Jun 17, 2014

Jill Lepore has produced an excellent, well-written and passionate refutation of Clayton Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation in the New Yorker; but I can’t help thinking the target of her piece is not just Christensen’s work, but also...

External engagement requires better internal organisation

by | May 22, 2014

As part of the work we do helping organisations overcome legacy structural and cultural barriers to new ways of working, we look at areas of the business that suffer disconnects and silo problems. One of these is often the relationship between externally-facing...

Why we fell in love with Somewhere

by | Feb 28, 2014

Recruitment is broken – and it has been for years. Nothing much has changed, for a very long time, in the formulaic, process-driven way that people try to find the right companies and companies try to find the right people. The ability to put CVs online has made...