In this post we'll take a deeper dive into three broad themes of Systematic Management, introduced between 1870 to 1900: Specialisation, Centralisation and Data.

AI and its return on investment is dominating Executive and Boardrooms globally. But amid the buzz, it’s easy to lose sight of what really matters. It’s easy to lose sight of the learnings that we’ve had from many failed attempts at digital transformations. This post shares our emerging point of view on AI as it relates to our current operating context, the opportunities for how it can be used to improve strategy execution, and the patterns and risks to consider. Living in

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This is the 11th blog post in the Organising for Outcomes series . It is helpful to understand where we’ve come from, how today’s ways...

This is the 10th blog post in the Organising for Outcomes series . It is helpful to understand where we’ve come from, how today’s ways...

90% of organisations fail to execute on their strategies successfully, according to Harvard Business School 1 . Yet in today’s...

This is the 9th blog post in the Organising for Outcomes series . It is helpful to understand where we’ve come from, how today’s ways of...

This is the 8th blog post in the Organising for Outcomes series . It is helpful to understand where we’ve come from, how today’s ways of...

This is the 7th 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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One of the biggest blockers to flow of value in large organisations is from teams delivering and operating in functional silos. I have...

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September 2015 was the last time that seven of the top ten firms by market value were not information technology firms. Fast forward less than two years, to June 2017 and seven of the top ten firms are IT firms. By June 2018, General Electric, the last remaining original constituent of the Dow Jones index, created in 1896, was removed from the index, a sign of the moving tectonic plates. Only two years later, by mid 2020, accelerated by a global pandemic, it’s not seven fir

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