Why Corporate Innovation is so Hard

I loved this piece by Tim Harford in the FT about why corporate innovation fails not least…

How do you structure a large business for relentless, continuous innovation? In the book we reference the work of Simon Wardley (who kindly let us use his graphic as well), and specifically his pioneers…

Greater organisational agility comes from empowered teams that perform well in solving the challenges that really matter to the business. But those teams don’t need to be big. In our book on agile business we delve into the key role that small, multidisciplinary teams can play…

Many leaders conflate being agile with simply moving faster. But that’s far from the whole story. In this extract from my book Building the Agile Business Through Digital Transformation, I explain why agile business is really all…

One of the key overarching themes in my book on organisational agility is that digital transformation is far from being the linear process with a beginning, middle and an end that many take it to be. The trajectory instead should be towards creating a new type of…

Over the past year I’ve been working with a large global corporate that is rolling out agile ways of working at scale through the organisation. The ‘a’ word is becoming somewhat overused and it can often be misunderstood or misappropriated, and yet as I argue in my book the application of agile…