Category: digital
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Agile Strategy Mapping
One of the key challenges in any change programme or strategy implementation is connecting an overarching organisational strategy with the departmental strategies and tactics needed to make it happen and all head in the same direction. And then there is the oft forgotten required conditions, environment and culture that not only supports but enables the…
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Redefining Leadership in the Digital Age
When I did the research late last year for the Econsultancy report on Effective Leadership in the Digital Age, one of the (many) interesting things to come out of it was the emphasis placed by the interviewees on the value of softer skills. Nobody that I spoke to (and I spoke to a lot of…
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The Agile Team Onion
I really liked Emily Webber's thoughts about Agile team onions. I've talked a lot over the past few years about the power of small multi-disciplinary teams to drive big change, and retain agility as you scale – and concepts like Amazon's two-pizza teams. Although as this piece adeptly describes, the point of two pizza teams…
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Post of the Month – April 2016 – The Winner
There was a good showing for Rory Sutherland in this month's vote but a strong run of votes for Ramzi Yakob's post on how Business Strategy is Simple, Doing it is Hard meant that he won through in the end. So well done Ramzi – you are entered into the hall of fame. My thanks to all…
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Post of the Month – April 2016 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: Bots and Humans: The New Interactive Tools That Could Help Creatives by Russell Davies The Best is The Last by Ben Evans In The Future We Will Photograph Everything and Look At Nothing by Om Malik The Secret to Doing Better at Darts –…
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Post of the Month – April 2016 – Nominations
I'm a little late with this (mostly due to being away cycling up and down big hills in Sardinia) but it is time to open up nominations for Post of the Month. As always I have a short starting list below but please do add to these by nominating your own favourite reads in the comments below…
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‘Dark MarTech’
I liked the phrase 'dark martech' (not least because, like 'dark social' it is suggestive of things that are in reality quite notable but less talked about) that Seth Ulinkski, an analyst at tech research business TBR, uses over on Scott Brinker's blog to describe the mass of home-grown marketing technology that companies build themselves internally.…
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Generative Design
Sometimes the whole people and technology debate can seem somewhat polarising, particularly when they're represented as mutually exclusive opposing forces when of-course the most interesting scenarios to work through are how one can augment the other. IA rather than AI. Intelligence Augmentation rather than Artificial Intelligence. With machines beginning to demonstrate not only an increasing ability to…
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Post of the Month – March 2016 – The Winner
Quite a close fought battle in this month's vote between Toby Barnes' view on designing everything as a service, Ramzi Yakob's post on the machine in the middle, and Gareth Kay's ode to small. But in the end it was Toby's piece that (just) won through. So well done to Toby. You join the hall…
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Post of the Month – March 2016 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: On Designing Everything as a Service by Toby Barnes In Praise of Small by Gareth Kay The Machine in the Middle: Are You Operating at the Pointy End of the Industry? from Ramzi Yakob The Solution to Design Thinking from Tim Malbon Working Differently…