Restarting old activities It has been a while since I posted a blog here on these pages. It seems that the last 18 months or so have been a whirlwind of unexpected challenges with Covid, of course, having a major impact but also the move of the main seat of our business from the UK…
Transformation in a changed world In case you haven´t noticed: the world has changed. It has changed dramatically over the last few months. And most likely forever. After having been hit by the Coronavirus and the accompanying changes to the way we work as addressed in previous blogs about starting up again and digitisation, the world has been…
What we are learning about Digital working… In these days of forced confinement, many of us are using digital tools to keep our lives going. That is true for our private lives (we now have regular virtual dinner parties with friends and family; a practice we will surely continue once the confinements have bene lifted)…
Icefall at the Falljökull glacier in Skaftafell, Iceland – reflecting an almost impossible climbing challenge ahead. “It feels like we are drowning” The coronavirus crisis has hit the world in full force. There is an enormous impact this crisis is having on people´s health, the way we live, with things like shopping, travelling, exercising (or…
I usually work on large scale, often global, transformation programmes. These programmes can be characterised as those that include operating model changes, involving multiple dimensions of the operating model. Changes to the business processes, IT systems, data models, governance structures and so on. All at the same time. And these programmes usually run over multiple…
Many times I have been involved in programmes where fundamental decisions are being made quite far down the line. So far down the line that the cost to mediate the consequences of not having made the decisions earlier can be very high. These often are decisions that concern scope, for instance. Or governance. Or on…
Many projects are started, usually, to address some form of perceived issue. The imperative seems to be that a certain way of working, a business process, an IT solution –and so on- should be changed in some form to improve what is being done to meet the business’ strategic goals. Usually there is an…
An interesting observation of the work I have been doing over the years in client environments, is that it appears that the same or very similar issues keep re-emerging time and time again. These often are issues that everybody seems to agree on that are materially impacting the effectiveness of the organisation. So, trying to…
In the more than 20 years that I have been working with my clients I noticed that traditional management theory, much fuelled by and taught in the many global MBA courses, seemed to suggest that by applying certain pre-defined practices we can “be in control” of our organisations. Determine the outcome of the whole of what…