Just over a week ago, I was in Amsterdam for the inaugural European Machine Intelligence Summit with Re•Work. It was a real honour to be compere for Day 2 of the Machine Learning in Autonomous Vehicles Summit, which was run alongside with the Machine Learning Summit. I started my own short talk on Day 2 with Uber. It is hard ... Read More →
Machine Intelligence in Autonomous Vehicles – Thoughts ahead of this week’s inaugural European Summit
This week I will be speaking at the inaugural Machine Intelligence in Autonomous Vehicles Summit in Europe, June 28th and 29th, in Amsterdam. It is great to work with the Re·Work team who run this event alongside their main Machine Intelligence Summit. I am very honoured to be asked to act as Compere (or MC) for Day 2, ... Read More →
Applied Operating Model Design – Key learnings from our inaugural alumni
We finally launched our inaugural Applied Operating Model Design (AOM) course in London on June 12-15. I was so pleased to be able to attend, and have the chance to see our CEO and Founder of Stratability, Julie Choo, in action. Julie had just flown back from a big trip to deliver the course to clients in Sydney, Australia on ... Read More →
Singapore: The island country with an agile operating model
In roughly just over half a decade, this little island nation has moved from a small unstable town plagued by guerrilla war and enforced curfews, to become a leader amongst modern cities with all the economic, social and financial power that many other countries and cities could only hope to attain and could certainly learn ... Read More →
Holacracy – What Is It And How Does It Fit Into Your Strategy Journey?
How many times have you sat at work thinking of an elaborate scheme to win favour with your manager? Or maybe you are thinking of going over their head? Are you trying to impress someone higher up the management ladder? Or maybe you're not looking to impress. Are you sitting at your keyboard, poised to type an email that will ... Read More →
Data Is The New Currency – Does Your Business Deal In It?
With the IPO for Snapchat coming up fast it is easy to question why its valuation is over $20bn. It is easy to question why Facebook spent a cool $1bn on Instagram. How did Apple, with its launch of the iPhone in 2007, wrestle over 90% of the profits in the mobile phone industry away from the big five (Samsung, Nokia, Motorola, ... Read More →
How to design a Target Operating Model (TOM) that delivers
The term Target Operating Model (or TOM) has been used a lot in many of the organisations that I have worked for all around the world, from London, to Mexico City, to Moscow, to Sydney, to Johannesburg, to Singapore, to Shanghai, and all the way away in Sao Paulo too. Many 100s of millions of dollars in business change budget ... Read More →