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…
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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…
Governance and Enterprise Agility
Enterprise agility alters operating models, organisational structures, and governance. This white paper examines what corporate governance frameworks require, where AI sharpens the challenge, and how mature organisations can adapt without…
Jump the Execution Gap and Make Strategy Happen
It is not the planning that fails. It’s the implementation where the problem lies. As Professor Charles Hampden-Turner used to say to reinforce this point: “A strategic plan always works…
Why Is Agile So Hard? Organizational Impediments to Becoming an Agile Enterprise
In many market sectors, the journey to becoming more Agile is a strategic imperative. This Advisor looks at some of the reasons some organizations find this transition difficult. These challenges…
Cut the Crap, Get Us to the Backlog! (Download the Whitepaper)
I have often written about how absurd Agile is. This paper looks at the silliness in Agile frameworks surrounding backlog creation. Most popular Agile frameworks start from the point of…