In Practice
Stories of how greater clarity, alignment and coherence have helped organisations grow, simplify, change and improve performance.
Why “one company” became the platform for extraordinary growth.
“If I work with two or three of their teams, it’s like working with two or three different companies.” I’ve heard versions of that [...]
Read article →Simpler businesses grow faster.
“There are only six types of organisation in the world,” an ex-colleague was fond of telling me. At the time, I disagreed because I [...]
Read article →“We’ve done a lot of work on our values. But it doesn’t seem to have made much difference”.
Someone made this point at a seminar we held, and before he’d finished speaking 3-4 other attendees nodded and clearly shared his pain. I’ve [...]
Read article →“I’ve already got an Innovation Director and team. What else should we be doing?”
“Innovation” must feature in every CEO’s annual list of objectives, along with “profitability” and “growth”. It was No. 3 (out of five) for my [...]
Read article →“If only we knew what we know”.
That comment was made in a project meeting, by one of the client team, after a discussion we’d prompted with the question “When has [...]
Read article →Complexity adds cost – how coherence improved performance.
Half-way through his briefing to us as we started a new project, the CEO brought beautiful and brutal focus in three words. He spoke [...]
Read article →G E T I N T O U C H
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