Governance & Innovation.
How organisations turn new ideas into useful change without losing them to process, politics or vague ambition.
Measuring startup risk — a model for governance
Making sense of a startup or innovation can be difficult. There are risks inherent wether you’re a VC or other investor, a ninja/rockstar or founder being asked to take equity as payment, or just someone that’s excited to work on something new. Maybe failure is part of it, but that doesn't mean you have to go down with the ship. I was recenty able to protect 50% of a six-figure investment...
Scaling Agile & Change: Principles, not Frameworks
The secret to enterprise change -- scaling agile, for instance -- isn't in a framework, a book, or an agile methodology. I spent the last decade investigating successful technology change across multiple efforts to modernise and introduce agile practices. We did formal research along the way and discovered that successful leaders in this area shared a set of internalised principles. These Principles helped them to introduce and navigate change ... to be agile rather than worry about how to do agile
Governance & Risk — Innovation Killers or Sound Strategy?
For many executives and leaders, extending transformation success beyond the tech space can present a challenge. That’s because successful transformation isn’t just about looking forward, it also requires that you understand a bit of history. If you’re trying to move forward, it’s imperative that you get your hand on My Years with General Motors, the autobiography written by GM’s first CEO, Alfred P. Sloan. It’s resonated deeply with our transformation work because it gives crystal clear insight into the fact that many of the problems we’re dealing with today were, in fact, solutions — once upon a time.