Building a knowledgebase for hacking your organisation

by | Nov 21, 2014

As a contribution to #WOLWeek, I would like to share some insights into one of our ongoing projects – building a knowledgebase that can support people building 21st Century Businesses.  We believe success in the future requires organisations to consciously...

The Quantified Organisation: can change become routine?

by | Nov 17, 2014

One of the challenges we have wrestled with since we launched Post*Shift is how to combine the best elements from new theory, ideas and models in the most practical and actionable way possible, whilst retaining enough flexibility to address the unique features and...

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...

Grow your own organisational structure

by | Aug 12, 2013

MBA libraries and airport bookstores are testament to a surfeit of ideas about how to manage companies more effectively. Most of this advice takes corporate structures as a given, and offers sage advice to enthusiastic executives on how to succeed within the existing...