List: Adaptiveness | Curated by Marcus Guest

Feb 14, 2022
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Adaptiveness 
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Why AGILE is not THE answerA few weeks ago I wrote about how companies using Wardley Maps (well) for strategy, execution and organisational improvement often seem to…
Dec 2, 2021
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Dec 2, 2021
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What do ‘next generation’ organisations do that you don’t?Executives often complain that they have the right strategy but lack the right people or organsiational culture to execute it. While it’s…
Aug 31, 2021
Aug 31, 2021
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Focus on high situational awarenessDuring the Korean War US pilots shot down their Korean and Chinese counterparts at a 10:1 ratio despite flying the F-86, an aircraft…
Sep 7, 2021
Sep 7, 2021
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Use a common languageIn any organisation many different types of people have to work together — sales, marketing, finance, IT operations, HR — and they need to…
Sep 12, 2021
Sep 12, 2021
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Why challenging assumptions matThere’s a story from the second world war about Winston Churchill inspecting an artillery unit’s firing drill. He was impressed with the…
Sep 20, 2021
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Sep 20, 2021
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Know your usersTo be successful in business you need to take your user’s perspective. This means seeing through the eyes of the people you have to delight…
Oct 11, 2021
Oct 11, 2021
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Focus on user needsAn organisation creates value by satisfying the needs of users (customers, shareholders, employees, communities etc). In return users give…
Oct 18, 2021
Oct 18, 2021
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How do you make your projects more successful?It may seem counterintuitive but, to increase your project team’s chances of creating something of value may require reducing budgets, team…
Jan 31, 2022
Jan 31, 2022
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Removing your organisation’s biggest source of wasteIn any large organisation people are often building things that already exist somewhere else in the same organisation. They’re not doing…
Feb 7, 2022
Feb 7, 2022