Working in innovation follows its own hype cycle — a rollercoaster, of sorts — which I’ve tried to summarise in the image below…
Top Tips and Tactics for Nurturing Kick-Ass Distributed Teams
At &us we’re a little bit obsessed with what it takes to create the right environment and conditions for talented teams to unleash their potential to make great things…
Your ‘Big Bang’ Transformation Won’t Work
Everywhere we turn, another organisation is on a mission to ‘transform’. To become more ‘digital’, more ‘agile’, more ‘customer centric’, etc…
An Intern’s Insights: How I Landed Here (Match Found!)
It was a stressful summer. It wasn’t just the scorching sun burning my eyes, it was also the intense amount of stress that burnt my brain into fumes, all caused by looking into the computer screen as I tried to hunt for an internship…
5 Bold Moves
There’s a lot of confusion about what ‘agility’ really is, and what it takes to do it right. Since the agile manifesto was launched, it’s built cult-like status amongst digital evangelists and whole industries have been created around maintaining its mystique.
The Value of Coaching
We all know how hard change is — and how often it’s unsupported. Much like a personal trainer will push you to get better results at the gym, coaching in the workplace helps teams going through a period of change meet the challenge head-on…
What is a Discovery Phase and why is it valuable?
Companies waste an estimated $28 million a year by rushing into digital transformation programmes before they are ready. Conducting the right Discovery phase could help your organisation spend more wisely…
Making Things Better
To us, ‘making’ means creating or improving ‘things’ — from product and services to big programmes of work, to internal processes and new ways of working. It sounds simple but many big organisations struggle to do this well…
The Team Retreat: 5 Ways to Make It Time Well Spent
It’s never been more important to get away from it all. Our recent all-team retreat gave some good lessons in how to do it well…
6 questions to ask during discovery on a data-driven project
From simple dashboards to complex B2B products, data visualisation projects can often come with details you wish you had captured earlier in your journey…