By Jon Ward, Director, Beneficial Consulting | Course Director, Strategic Stakeholder Engagement for Organisational Transformation, Informa Connect Academy Most stakeholder toolkits assume something: get the influence diagram right, get the…
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Herding the Big Cats
WORKSHOP | ENTERPRISE AGILITY & CHANGE LEADERSHIP Herding the Big Cats Transitioning the Reluctant Organisation “Strategy doesn’t fail in the boardroom. It fails in the corridors.” The boardroom approves the…
Strategic Stakeholder Engagement for Organisational Transformation
This course responds to a growing organisational need: complex enterprises are grappling with agility, rapid transformation, shifting geopolitical pressures, emerging technologies, and heightened expectations for strategic alignment. As decisions move…
Change Doesn't Happen Because of a Plan
It happens because stakeholders are mobilised Every transformation programme has a plan. A slide deck with milestones. A RACI chart. A communications calendar colour-coded by audience. And still, most of…
The Missing Number on Every Engineering Dashboard
Engineering leaders know a defect in production costs more than one caught in review. Almost none can put a number on it that survives contact with a CFO. AI-powered digital…
Spontaneous Squads: A Tool for Transformational Change
We called for 20 volunteers. 228 came forward. This paper explains how we aligned and mobilised spontaneous squads — self-selecting teams built on Kotter’s volunteer army model — to deliver…