Matt Ballantine (@Ballantine70) and I are currently talking about the feasibility of bringing together diverse people, with diverse perspectives, to explore the practical implications of Matt’s Minimum Viable Workplaces concept. I’m in complete agreement with his core proposition that: ” … organisations need to move beyond the traditional silos of business services – IT, HR, Finance, Legal, […]
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Colliding Complexities and Reflexive Learning
I created this diagram for my own benefit, to help me clarify the focus for what I want to do with The Smart Work Company. It has been useful enough but it would be even better if it was somehow animated. The diagram looks deceivingly simple, when in reality what it aims to show is […]
Tiny Triumphs – the next frontier
If you are interested, here’s where I’m at with Tiny Triumphs: The Tiny Triumph package of tasters, tools and tribes (people co-creating and sharing in communities) are all aimed at helping people and organisations – to practice skills and develop the capabilities they will need going into an evolving future of work. I’m not going […]
Re-Generation
Re-Generation Whatever productivity is, and it’s not easy agree on what it is, other nations appear to be getting more bang for their buck. To use a horrible phrase. I wrote in my last blog post about the seven Acas Productivity Levers, saying what I thought was missing (organisational cultures and performance systems that nurture […]
Let’s Talk About Value (and Productivity)
“There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer.”* No matter what the future of work looks like, securing customers and creating value for them is fundamentally what business will continue to be about. I haven’t decided on a name for this framework, so for the moment I’m calling it the […]