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Mitsubishi Electric: A 100-Year-Old Company in Digital Transformation

Faced with a rapidly evolving business landscape fueled by AI and faster cycles of product development, Mitsubishi Electric—a...

Strategy Execution: 5 Themes From Industry Leaders

At Sooner Safer Happier we recently hosted cross-industry discussions between five global brands that are leaders in banking, aerospace,...

New Podcast Episode! Ways of Working at ABSA with Nick Manterfield

Listen to the ways of working changes that ABSA has gone through as told by Nick Manterfield, CIO of Corporate Bank and Group Payments....

New Podcast Episode! Squads, Tribes, Chapters and Guilds at Spotify. The origin story with Joakim Sundén.

Squads, Tribes, Chapters and Guilds at Spotify. The origin story with Joakim Sundén, someone who was in the room when deciding the...

Strategy definition – how might we write our strategic choices in a way that we can execute? Outcomes and key results.

When we start to think about the shift from output to outcome, what we are really trying to drive is an unlock of value from initiatives,...

New Podcast Episode! Ways of Working at Suncorp with Lauren Lance

Listen to Jonathan Smart's conversation with Lauren Lance, Executive General Manager Enterprise Delivery at Suncorp to find out more...

What is BVSSH?

September 2015 was the last time that seven of the top ten firms by market value were not information technology firms. Fast forward less...

Demystifying strategy: From an elusive word to a muscle needed by everyone

Strategy is a word that is elusive. It has an air of mystery. It is a word that is thrown around a lot and with loose meaning. It is a...

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...

(6) Organising for Outcomes: From Steam to Steel

This is the 6th blog post in a series. It is helpful to understand where we’ve come from, how today’s ways of working have evolved, and...

New Podcast Episode! Ways of Working at UBS with Rob Berini

Listen to the ways of working changes that UBS has gone through as told by Rob Berini, MD and Head of Digital Enablement. It’s the Age of...

(5) Introducing… the Organisation Chart!

This is the fifth blog post in a series. Also see (1) Introduction, (2) How We Got Here, (3) From Craft to Capitalism (Part 1) and (4)...

(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

(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

(2) How We Got Here

This is the second blog post in the Organising for Outcomes series. In the previous post we looked at some of the common challenges to...

(1) Organising for Outcomes

‘Every organisation is perfectly optimised to get the results it gets’. Are you happy with the results your team, team of teams and...

The Sooner Safer Happier Podcast with Jon Smart is now available!

It’s the Age of Digital and we’re all living in it. Sooner Safer Happier is a podcast orchastrated to help you on your unique journey to...

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. ...

Want to scale agile? Don’t. Descale the work first. Achieve big through small.

This is the second post in a series, sharing a number of observed anti-patterns and corresponding patterns on the topic of business...