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Future of ways of working - A story from the day-in-a-life of a VRO
Earlier this year, it occurred to me that we talk a lot of the problems that we need to solve when it comes to ways of working, but we...
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(6) From Steam to Steel
Andrew Carnegie, a key person in the third technology revolution, had a fascinating life, working in all of the first three technology-led
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The Fearless Organisation by Amy Edmondson. Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace
The Fearless Organisation by Amy Edmondson - On psychological Safety and how silence is a killer.
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Overworked? - Tips on Balancing your workload for improved Well-Being
Workload remains the most prevalent culprit behind work-related stress according to CIPD Health and Wellbeing at Work Report 2023. Let’s...
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(5) Introducing… the Organisation Chart!
This is the 5th blog post in the Organising for Outcomes series . It is helpful to understand where we’ve come from, how today’s ways of...
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Nurturing Change: Treesisters' Community-Led Restoration Efforts
Our Dedicated Charity Partner 'Happier' includes happier clients, colleagues, citizens and climate. Increasing colleague engagement is...
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(4) From Craft to Capitalism (Part 2)
In the previous post, nine key aspects of the First Industrial Revolution were listed. We're now going to take a closer look at each one of
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(3) From Craft to Capitalism (Part 1)
It’s 5:55am and a bell is ringing. Elizabeth just made it in through the tall, imposing factory gates before they close at 6am. The next tim
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(2) How We Got Here
This is the second blog post in the Organising for Outcomes series . It is helpful to understand where we have come from, to understand...
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Continuous Learning Loop
In the world of business agility, I often find myself needing to explain complex concepts in a way that's easy to understand. That's...
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(1) Organising for Outcomes
This is the first blog post in the Organising for Outcomes series . It is helpful to understand where we’ve come from, how today’s ways...
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6 ways to close the gap between Strategy and Execution
3 out of 5 companies rate their organisation as weak on strategy execution. Only 8% of leaders excel at both strategy and execution. ...
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Succeeding in a Low-Growth Economy: Three Keys to Unlock Portfolio Value Delivery
Succeeding In a Low-Growth Economy: Three Keys to Unlock Your Portfolio Delivery Ecosystem In a world where even the smallest competitive...
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Change is hard. Change is messy. Change is different for everyone.
Change is hard. Change is messy. Change is different for everyone. There are real emotions that we need to consider on the journey....
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Know your flow
Picture this. A gaggle of CIOs from various industries meeting to discuss digital transformation and business agility. About 20 in the...
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What is Waterfall?
Most large, old, traditional organizations either used to take, or still take, a waterfall approach in the context of unique change. The...
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How to survive and thrive in the Age of Digital?
For those who choose to leverage the latest technological revolution and adopt ways of working that suit the nature of more of today’s...
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Pattern 1.2: Start with why; Empower the how
In Antipattern 1.2, we saw how a capital “A,” capital “T” Agile Transformation feels to an employee like involuntary, mandatory change...
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Antipattern 1.2: Using old ways of thinking to apply new ways of working
Focusing on “Agile,” “Lean,” or “DevOps” as the end rather than the means to an end is using old ways of thinking to apply new ways of...
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How should I fund agility?
“Our investment funding is tied to detailed upfront business cases and annual project cycles. Its hard to understand what a different...
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