Or how slowing down can solve business problems faster.

Authored by @Alex Barclay — Strategic Design Principal, BCG Platinion and co-founder of Fuzzy

This article explores a very simple idea: are we are all just moving too fast?

I believe that we are, in our working lives and beyond. The problem is that we’re rushing, constantly associating speed with…

Or how, in an age of accelerated input overload, design can be used to make sense of fast changing environments.

Authored by @Alex Barclay link with contributions from @Sherif Choudhry and @Phil Gerrard — all from BCG Platinion

“We can’t change fast enough. We have no advantage other than our…

Design and learning based strategies to help businesses re-organise, mobilise and rapidly adapt to an increasingly VUCA world* and the coronavirus pandemic

*VUCA is an acronym used by USA military personnel to describe environments that are Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous — a phrase that’s perfect for anyone who’s currently in business!

On Strategy was written roughly two years ago. Its intention was singular — to help business owners operating in VUCA situations reject old, broken business models and take up new ones so they could adapt fast and flourish.

The coronavirus pandemic is a black swan event that incredibly sadly, has…

The skinny: what follows talks about how sometimes ambition and opportunity meet, and what happens next. The ambition is to see if, by taking a more reflective, mindful approach to the work I and the teams I work with do, we can generate demonstrable business value — i.e. create a…