Myles Oglive

What a day! From the moment the doors opened to the last roundtable conversation still buzzing over coffee, Sooner Safer Happier LIVE 2026 felt like a room of people who've been working on similar challenges and at last got to compare notes. As one attendee put it: “This is the only event like this I've been to EVER.” We heard from a 15,000-person US financial services firm founded in 1948, a national tax authority collecting almost £1 trillion a year, a mobile network born from a 20-year...

When whispers of ‘keyboard tracking’ started circulating this triggered a huddle with my client about how to explain to well-intentioned yet traditionally minded SVPs the dangers of confusing activity with efficiency. We talked through a number of efficiency measurement systems that have become widely accepted over the past decade. Some were already in place in the organisation (DORA) and others were a work in progress. Thankfully for this organisation, the exercise resulted in a shift from...

“Our investment funding is tied to detailed upfront business cases and annual project cycles. Its hard to understand what a different...