by Lee Bryant | Sep 19, 2019
We have worked with enterprise social networks (ESNs) for over 15 years, helping organisations to create a connected context, networks and communities to support new ways of working and overcome the harmful effects of silos. In Munich this week, at the 15th Social...
by Lee Bryant | Nov 13, 2017
I had a very interesting session last week with procurement leads responsible for sourcing legal and consulting work for major organisations. I came to the session wanting to talk about service-oriented, not product- or project-oriented strategic sourcing, and to lay...
by Christine Overby | Oct 27, 2016
In five years, will professional services firms look a bit more like software companies? On first glance, this might seem implausible. For a very long time, firms have been organised around fee earning partners who crafted reputations based upon expertise and...
by Lee Bryant | Apr 22, 2016
This is a summary of a talk I gave this week to the Stuttgart Social Forum at the Bosch R&D Campus in Renningen, and you can view the accompanying slides here. What is the use case for organisational structure? The rise of social technology in the workplace...
by Lee Bryant | 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...