One of my former colleagues asked for some advice today. He’d been approached about a role as a “Business Change Delivery Lead”. The potential employer seeks candidates with Business Change experience and qualifications, but the details cover project management, change management, with a single mention of Agile PM certifications. Looking at the specification (the “job … Read more
For those who know me, I love Halloween. Happily experiment and create shocking artifacts (like last year’s three-amigo pumpkins). Halloween is a time for costumes, haunted houses, and surprises around every corner—but it’s also a great metaphor for exploring business agility! Much like knocking on doors for “trick or treat,” embarking on a journey to … Read more
Last week, I wrote a post From Logistics to Ecosystems: How Early Innovations in Freight Technology Helped Deliver Today’s Ecosystem Economy inspired by the book, The Ecosystem Economy. In that post, I further discussed the shift toward an ecosystem economy, where interconnected networks of partnerships replace traditional sector siloes, enabling businesses to co-create value in … Read more
At the beginning of the year, I wrote a post The Ecosystem Economy: How Business Agility Will Shape—and Be Shaped by—Our $100 Trillion Future after reading the book, The Ecosystem Economy. In that post, I discussed the shift toward an ecosystem economy, where interconnected networks of partnerships replace traditional sector siloes, enabling businesses to co-create … Read more
Strategy often seems straightforward: understand where you are, define where you want to go, and choose the best path to get there. Simple, right? But in reality, many organizations falter not because strategy is complex but because the execution is undermined by human factors. People introduce unpredictability, at the very least: Let us explore these … Read more
We all nod sagely when the topic of prioritisation comes up. “Focus on what matters most,” we preach. “Identify the vital few that will truly move the needle.” It sounds so simple, so logical. Yet, in the messy reality of organisational life, this fundamental principle often goes out the window, leaving us drowning in a … Read more