Moving From Ad-hoc Hybrid Working to a Hybrid Work System in 2023
In this edition, Lee considers how we can learn the lessons of ad-hoc hybrid work and create a fully-featured hybrid work system to help us hit the ground running in 2023.
The key role of the digital workplace in supporting successful M&A integration
In this issue, Livio considers the cultural elements of M&A integrations and how they can be enabled by a purposeful digital workplace strategy The key role of the digital workplace in supporting successful M&A integration Big is not always beautiful Last year...
Old Wine in New Bottles
Sometimes change gets stuck between two worlds, and all we end up with is old structures with new branding. During a period of transition or paradigm shift, there is often an interim phase where we use new models to create a slightly better version of the old world...
Siloed Capability Development Cancels Out Transformation Advantage
How can we work to build a truly developmental organisation, allowing new capability development to be for everyone, not just those closest to the customer? With any transformation effort, it makes sense to target meaningful organisational capabilities rather than...
How do you change the place where work happens?
Welcome back to the Post*Shift Linklog, picking back up after our summer break. This week’s contributor, Laura-Jane Parker, reflects on the challenges faced by organisations in encouraging new ways of working. The digital workplace tools landscape has had a...
Empathy and organisational change
In seeking to transform our organisations, one of the biggest challenges we face is changing human behaviours, and the organisational cultures that shape them. This post looks at the role empathy and empathic design can play in creating the systematic change required...
Enterprise-wide Agility: Doing versus Being
“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...
Linklog 90: Organisations Under Pressure
This weeks curator, Laura-Jane Parker, reflects on how organisations under pressure expose their true culture and what can be done if those behaviours aren’t what you want to see; she also shares 5 links for further reading on the topic. What’s your...
Linklog 73: Social Teams in Utilities can be Key Players in Organisational Change
This week’s curator, Lee Bryant, looks at how we can identify and solve some of the scaling problems that small-team-based organisational structures faec as they grow; he also shares some related guides from Shift*Base and picks 5 links for further reading on the...