HR | SHIFT*: Digital Capability Acceleration

Digital Talent: An Emergent Approach

by Livio Hughes | Apr 16, 2021

How can HR functions adopt a more creative, targeted approach to developing home-grown digital talent? The digital people challenge The digital skills gap was already widening fast before COVID-19 struck, as this World Economic Forum report shows. Since then, the 1-2...

Diversity-as-a-System

by Sophie Laidler | Dec 6, 2018

A 21st century organisation uses systems thinking to enable agility. Shipping working code is an example of a highly valuable system that most startups develop early. Even in the early days these systems are multi-layered across infrastructure (e.g. GitHub),...

Why throwing out job families is a good first step to creating a future-proof talent strategy.

by Sophie Laidler | Nov 8, 2018

Historically, an organisation used a predict-and-plan operating model suited to stable business environments. However, in the new world of constant change and uncertainty, organisations need to be set up to sense-and-respond to emerging challenges. In HR, the...

The Tell-tale Heart of Team Failure

by Cerys Hearsey | Nov 1, 2018

“A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.” – John Burroughs At the end of a conference presentation, I was recently asked “how can I tell if an enterprise agile team is failing?”. A question for which I...

Reflections on Building Digital Leadership Superpowers

by Christine Overby | Mar 30, 2017

This week, we had fun hosting an event on how to discover and nurture digital leaders. We covered key strategies and approaches, which we have derived from both our client work and research (slides below). Building Digital Leadership Superpowers Within Your...