Expert guidance on business transformation and change management. Avoid the consultant trap with collaborative approaches that build sustainable organisational capabilities.
Professor Julie Hodges of Durham University Business School dismantles the myths of organisational change, explains why linear models are no longer fit for purpose, and makes the case for a people-centric approach that actually sticks. Essential reading for leaders navigating transformation in complex organisations.
Charlene Li — adviser to 49 of the Fortune 100 — argues that most AI transformations fail because leaders are asking the wrong question. It is not about AI strategy. It is about business strategy enabled by AI. Here is how to close that gap in 90 days.
Karen-Marie Katholm led 14,000 employees through a supply chain transformation at Akzo Nobel. Her insight: most organisations invest heavily in processes and systems but underinvest in capabilities. Technical expertise is the price of entry. Human-centric leadership is the differentiator.
Rich Allen reveals how organisations plan strategy with external focus but implement with internal structures, leaving good teams working at cross purposes. User Needs Mapping aligns teams around user needs, connecting Wardley Mapping's strategic foundations with Team Topologies' practical team design
Your brain still thinks it's on the savannah, which makes collaboration challenging. Hilary Scarlett's SPACES model reveals six neuroscience-backed factors that help leaders shift teams from threat mode to high performance.
Traditional management fails because it treats organizations like machines, which cannot adapt to the increasing volatility of the modern world. Adaptive organizations succeed by acting as complex systems that prioritize sensing, learning, and adaptation, moving from control and silos to trust and flow through small experiments.
AI implementation failure affects 70-95% of projects—not just because of poor technology, but mismanaged people. Drawing on neuroscience research and the SPACES framework, discover why human factors predict success or failure and how people-centric change management turns AI adoption from frustration into momentum.
What can a prehistoric creature with nine brains, three hearts, and the ability to edit its own RNA teach us about thriving in the AI revolution? Stephen Wunker reveals why most companies are approaching AI transformation entirely wrong—and why the octopus offers a better blueprint.