An update on our Digital Maturity Assessment Admin on 25/06/2020 The more we’ve used maturity assessments with different organisations, the more value we’ve seen in the approach. They can work effectively as both a research tool at the beginning of organisational design work and as part of a process to identify business, service areas and opportunities, prioritised along with a clear future vision, roadmap and plan for delivering change.
How to Do Strategic Planning Like a Futurist Admin on 25/06/2020 I recently helped a large industrial manufacturing company with its strategic planning process. With so much uncertainty surrounding autonomous vehicles, 5G, robotics, global trade, and the oil markets, the company’s senior leaders needed a set of guiding objectives and strategies linking the company’s future to the present day. Before our work began in earnest, executives had already decided on a title for the initiative: Strategy 2030.
From Patriarchy To Partnership – The Paradigm Shift Our Organisations Need Admin on 25/06/2020 It’s no secret that the way we’re working isn’t working – Gallup’s latest poll tells us only 15% of employees worldwide are engaged at work; productivity is down; people are burning out at work; technology continues to disrupt the norms. But whether I’m working with large, hierarchical organisations or small, flat startups, I hear the same two complaints.
The Systems Change Framework Admin on 24/06/2020 The Systems Change Framework has been developed as a sensemaking tool to support individuals and collaborations to become more familiar and capable of working in systems and towards systems change. It outlines a structure, process and set of practices which, when taken together, enable a systemic inquiry for systems change.
Tackling misinformation in an open society Admin on 23/06/2020 In the eight years we’ve been the UK’s independent factchecking organisation, Full Fact has worked to tackle misinformation in all its forms.
There’s No Secret Sauce… Except Sit Down and Do The Work Admin on 22/06/2020 Creative tech artist and designer Brendan Dawes on life in lockdown
The Problem with Personas Admin on 22/06/2020 The latest debate in the UX Research community has us questioning whether including demographic data in our personas is harmful. (We think it’s just lazy.)
What we’ve learned about preparing for discovery Admin on 21/06/2020 Over the last year or so, I’ve heard a lot of colleagues in Defra talk about ‘pre-discovery’. They mean it as an additional phase of work to be done before discovery, which leads into alpha, beta and then live.
Let’s Talk About Strategy (extended workshop): what it is, why it matters, and how to do it well Admin on 21/06/2020 Let’s Talk About Strategy (extended workshop): what it is, why it matters, and how to do it well