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Haydn Shaughnessy

Founder at Flow Academy

., Ireland

8607 Followers

I help companies to fix transformations and promote business agility within new business ecosystems. I came to this work through my research and analysis of business platforms and ecosystems. I wrote one of the first books on the modern platform and ecosystem model (The Elastic Enterprise) and have contributed to the Harvard Business Review, Forbes and Gigaom on new business techniques. especially around platform disruption.
Over the years I became convinced that this model needs a new framework.A redefinition . of organisational practices and ways to work and a new theory of the firm and its purpose in society.
I speak about platforms and ecosystems and how to get business agility going as a response to this new economic dynamic.
With my colleague Fin Goulding, I have developed a framework for transformation that focuses on what we call value-based agility. That is agile, of course, but with an end-to-end focus on how best to create value for customers.It takes full account of the impact of business platforms but especially the ecosystem. We teach new ways to work that are strong on good social interaction, the use of visualisations and fostering the power of collective intelligence.
Because of platforms and ecosystems we have to learn to work differently. I continue to work in these areas, in particular researching how business ecosystems evolve and function. I recently co-authored Flow and 12 Steps to Flow, two books that are generating a lot of excitement because they describe the new value-based framework for organisational agility and work design.

Available For: Consulting, Speaking
Travels From: Ireland
Speaking Topics: How to Fix a Digital Transformation, What It Means to be Business Agile, Harnessing The Power of the Business Ecosystem

Speaking Fee $10,000

Haydn ShaughnessyPoints
Academic170
Author603
Influencer182
Speaker253
Entrepreneur320
Total1528

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Company Information

Company Type: Company
Email: haydnshaughnessy@gmail.com
Theatre: US/Europe/Asia
Media Experience: 30 years
Last Media Interview: 11/04/2018

Areas of Expertise

Agile 40.36
AI 31.22
Blockchain 30.48
Business Strategy 30.09
Cloud
Cryptocurrency 30.69
Culture 31.82
Customer Experience
Digital Disruption 100
Digital Transformation 100
Fintech 49.57
Future of Work 61.63
Innovation 49.56
Leadership 37.20
Lean Startup
Management 33.33
Marketing 30.21
Mobility 30.32
Open Innovation
Startups 30.30
Social 33.33
Emerging Technology 31.25
Design Thinking 30.93
COVID19 32.10
Change Management 30.08
Ecosystems 100
Big Data 34.13

Industry Experience

Consumer Products
Federal & Public Sector
Financial Services & Banking
High Tech & Electronics
Higher Education & Research
Insurance
Media
Oil & Gas
Professional Services
Telecommunications

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Publications

2 Academic Fellow / Scholars
Fellow Centre for business transformation, Paul Merage School, Uc Irvine
UC Irvine
November 01, 2012

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Innovation

Fellow of the Society for New Communications Research
Society for New Communications Research
August 02, 2012

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Tags: Innovation, Social

5 Academic Whitepapers
Context & Method: Two Pillars of Business Agile Transformation
Business Agility Institute
December 07, 2020
A look at how companies should focus on their context rather than on fixed future operating models and how the concept of a generative operating model, the flow operating model, can support this new type of thinking

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption

The New Enterprise Operating Model
Gigaom
November 04, 2016
The reconciliation of IT and business has been a persistent theme over the past 10 years, and for good reasons. At a certain point in time, the IT department constrained enterprise behavior, and senior-level management widely regarded it as a cost, and even as a hindrance.

But what happens to the enterprise when the IT-to-business reconnect is complete? This report argues that modern IT — that is, one that is cloud-based, platform-centric, and often making use of extensive partner ecosystems — allows companies to free themselves from old enterprise constraints. However, business management and IT organizations must address ensuing conceptual and business model issues:

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Ecosystems

Decoding Disruption: 4 Frameworks for understanding industry change
Gigaom
August 11, 2016
Today, most are familiar with Clayton Christensen-style disruption: the introduction of new technology that is lower-cost and “good enough” yet often creates a wholly new market. This is a powerful theory, and was appropriate for its time. Times, however, change. There are now other types of disruption to be explored.

This analysis reviews the likely new models of industry disruption. Gigaom Research will work with the Gigaom community via a survey to test these new disruption hypotheses.

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Future of Work

Decoding disruption: a business model canvas for planning
Gigaom
August 10, 2016
A visual representation of how to manage the planning and execution of disruptive strategies.

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Future of Work

The Fluid Core How Technology Is Creating a New Hierarchy of Need, and How Smart Companies Are Responding
Cognizant
June 13, 2013
To understand the way in which leading enterprises are responding to change, we interviewed 30 CIOs and chief innovation officers, as well as CEOs of service providers that capitalize on, or propel, enterprise disruption. We interviewed leaders from some of the largest players in IT (Dell, SAP), financial services (ABN AMRO, Chubb) and media (The Washington Post Company, Forbes). Our findings suggest that successful organizations are claiming the future by understanding a new hierarchy of enterprise needs, and adopting a new, adaptable infrastructure where technology, humans and competitive conditions intersect and
can interact in real time.

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Future of Work

4 Advisory Board Memberships
Quantum Materials Advisory Board
Quantum materials
September 05, 2019

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Innovation

Finio Blockchain Startup
Finio
January 15, 2017

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Innovation

Cerebri AI
Cerbri AI
March 04, 2016

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Innovation

Centre for Digital Transformation
Centre for digital transformation
May 05, 2015
UC Irvine, founding advisory board member

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Future of Work

133 Article/Blogs
How to Foster a Learning Culture during Transformation Using a Lighthouse Project
Corporate Learning
December 14, 2020
One of the biggest challenges any senior leader faces is to nurture transformation to a successful conclusion. In general, transformations hit moments of chaos or complexity that people are happy to get through, but that can mean leaving behind lessons that are invaluable to corporate innovation capability. We developed the lighthouse project concept to help counter this tendency to lose valuable learnings.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Culture

The Moonshot and the Lighthouse: Rethinking COVID Recovery Strategies
Flow Academy
December 02, 2020
If you want to grab a headline or a news agenda, then proposing a moonshot program to counter COVID 19, implicitly comparing yourself to Google (an early moonshot proponent), and promising £100 billion of spending, is a good way to go about it. That’s exactly what the UK Government did and this is why it is wrong.

Ambitious goals remain part of the landscape of business, but big projects have given way to agile adaptability. In place of moonshots we should be talking about a lighthouse, a project to show the way.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, COVID19

A short guide to winning at digital transformation
Corporate earning Network
November 23, 2020
Five pointers for managing a transformation from the c suite

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Ecosystems

Using Transformation Sprints to Move on From COVID 19
Import from medium.com
November 12, 2020
If there were any doubts that COVID 19 would impact the economy for a long time to come, then the second wave sweeping Europe must put…Continue reading on Flow: The Transformation Sprint »

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Future of Work

Time-boxing urgent change with a Transformation Sprint approach
The Digital Transformation People
October 07, 2020
Transformations are notoriously difficult to manage successfully, with a well-known failure rate exceeding 75%. The COVID pandemic has heightened the need for rapid change, not only in the digitisation of processes but also in some of the fundamental aspects of how companies and society operate.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Innovation

How To Find Value With Market Segmentation
Flow Academy
September 30, 2020
On my way home from a business trip and five minutes out from the railway station, I took the unusual step of booking a taxi. I say unusual because the station has a taxi rank inhabited by a long queue of eager drivers waiting for customers.

The problem for me is not the availability of a ride. It is that the need I have won’t be met by a regular taxi. The driver is unlikely to provide me with an electronic copy of the bill. Free Now, the fast-growing German mobility app, does and that’s why I order my ride with them. The app’s electronic invoice makes my own expensing easier – it also means I am never out of pocket while I wait for my company to pay me back.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Future of Work

Three ways to save on Post-COVID transformation costs without creating downside
LinkedIn
July 03, 2020
In the last article on leadership purpose, we touched on the unobserved costs of new transformation initiatives. Cost is top of mind as companies seek a way out of COVID. Inevitably the “way out” will involve redesigning parts of the operating model and the value connection a company has with its markets.

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Tags: Innovation, Change Management, COVID19

Why You Should Be Talking Less Agile and More Flow
Agile connection
May 06, 2020
Agile methods don't do enough to prioritise value creation - they should and here's how.

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Tags: Agile, Digital Transformation, Innovation

How to climb the COVID change curve
Import from medium.com
May 06, 2020
In this second article out of ur series of three, we look at how to initiate positive change against the backdrop of COVID 19.Continue reading on Medium »

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Future of Work, COVID19

The Art Of Good Value Discovery
Flow Academy
March 09, 2020

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Future of Work

Why You Should Revisit Value Discovery
Disruption hub
March 09, 2020

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Future of Work

Do We Really Understand The Value Of Platforms?
Disruption hub
February 11, 2020

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Future of Work

Defining The Business Ecosystem
Disruption hub
January 28, 2020

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Ecosystems

Understanding The Platform Business
Disruption Hub
October 21, 2019
How the platform and the ecosystem are shaping adaptive organisations
Business platforms are a productive way to organise the modern enterprise. They drive new ways to work. They create much prized agility across a range of related businesses. However, we do not know enough about them to harness their power. Worse than that, I am about to argue, we misunderstand them fundamentally, making big mistakes when we talk about platforms and ecosystems.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Ecosystems

8 Leadership Lessons from Apple and Samsung
Forbes
October 02, 2019
Apple and Samsung both made major announcements in the past month. iPhone 5S and C, a curved glass Samsung phone, 64 bit processors, fingerprint privacy control and more.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Innovation

Bringing the Customer All the Way In: The Use of Customer Walls in Flow
Import from medium.com
October 02, 2019
A lot of companies speak about the principle of customer-centricity without ever really knowing how to do it. They want to but they can’t…Continue reading on Medium »

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Future of Work

The Business Ecosystem and The Power of Disruption
Import from medium.com
September 19, 2019
How are business ecosystems disruptive? Given there is so much conversation about them, what do we really know about their impact? I began…Continue reading on Medium »

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Future of Work, Ecosystems

Business Ecosystems
Import from medium.com
August 18, 2019
The sudden importance of ecosystemsContinue reading on Medium »

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Ecosystems

The Business of Change – how the platform and the ecosystem are shaping adaptive organisations
Disruption Hub
August 10, 2019
More thinking on platforms and ecosystems

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Agile, Ecosystems

The origins of the modern ecosystem
Import from medium.com
August 08, 2019
In the late 1990s, a small Silicon Valley company called Google began to emerge as a strong contender in the search engine industry, a…Continue reading on On The Horizon »

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Ecosystems

How to Think about Value Based Agility
Import from medium.com
August 05, 2019
Your organisation has done some work around agile but are you doing value-based agility? You are, as they say, standing up agile teams…Continue reading on Medium »

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Future of Work

Is it the platform or is it the ecosystem?
Import from medium.com
July 08, 2019
The platform discussion needs some reframing.Continue reading on On The Horizon »

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Ecosystems

Platform Ecosystems and the Fallacy of Agile Transformation
Import from medium.com
July 08, 2019
The idea of doing an agile transformation is now so well embedded in managerial thinking it is hard to escape. If you are not talking up…Continue reading on On The Horizon »

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Ecosystems

Is it the platform or is it the ecosystem
Import from medium.com
July 06, 2019
It is exciting to see a new book out on business platforms written by Gawer, Cusumano and Yoffie. Gawer and Cusumano are two of the…Continue reading on Medium »

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Ecosystems

The origins of the modern ecosystem
linkedin
July 02, 2019
In the late 1990s, a small Silicon Valley company called Google began to emerge as a strong contender in the search engine industry, a business it now monopolises. Google’s rise to dominance in this industry marked the origins, the very genesis, of the modern business ecosystem. A look at Google shows that platforms are not about twi-sided markets or network effects.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Business Strategy, Ecosystems

Is It The Platform or Is It The Ecosystem?
Disruption hub
June 24, 2019
Commentators and experts in platform economics miss the point. The real change and the power of new market dynamics lies in the ecosystem. Here's why.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Future of Work, Ecosystems

The Agile Risk Manager
Global Association of Risk Professionals
June 21, 2019
For companies to become agile they need the risk management function to join in. But how do you do agile risk management?

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Future of Work, Leadership

Ecosystems and the fallacy of agile transformation
linkedin
May 18, 2019
The idea of doing an agile transformation is now so well embedded in managerial thinking it is hard to escape. If you are not talking up an agile something, you look like a dinosaur. But why would you transform?

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Agile, Ecosystems

What are business ecosystems?
linkedin
May 12, 2019
Interesting - I wrote this five years ago but it seems more relevant now. It uses the Google SEO ecosystem and the monetisation of search as an example of how ecosystems emerge. I have updated it but here's a link to the original. Recently Fin and I have been writing on value-based agility and ecosystems are key to that.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Agile, Ecosystems

By cultivating its ecosystem did Airbnb just show Uber how to run a platform
Hack and craft news
March 20, 2019

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Ecosystems

BRINK’s Coverage of Cities in 2018 Suggests a Vibrant Urban Future
BrinkNews
December 27, 2018
During this last week of the year, we are looking back at some of the most interesting themes and ideas that appeared on BRINK during 2018. Yesterday, we examined the issue of technology. Today we look at how we covered cities on BRINK.

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Tags: Blockchain

The Risks of Agile Transformation and How to Control Them
Global Association of Risk Professionals
November 09, 2018
Most digital transformations fail to meet the expectations of their sponsors but that could be because risk managers don't understand how to control the risks. Here are some clues.

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Future of Work

Top Tech Trends Shaping the Future & Society
Austin Forum on Science and Technology
November 01, 2018
The trends that are shaping America's economic future

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Future of Work

Ecosystem thinking and strategy
linkedin
October 21, 2018
The diagram below is of the Amazon book ecosystem. The revelation to me as I was researching it is how many of those companies are private entities and how few belong to Amazon or who have formal relationships with Amazon (by the way to get the most out of this article do follow the links!)

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Ecosystems

Transformation Management: 5 Steps for Risk Managers
Global Association of Risk Professionals
September 14, 2018
One of the most significant changes going on inside enterprises is the fragmentation into more projects of smaller size. Do you know how to manage the disaggregation of work?

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Future of Work

The Looser Form of Project Management
linkedin
September 04, 2018
People are talking about moving from projects to products, or business outputs to business outcomes. In #Flow we talk about moving to customer outcomes. What too few of us are talking about though is the need for speed.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Agile

Lessons from the Amazon Ecosystem
Disruption hub
August 02, 2018
Amazon's book ecosystem offers some useful, indeed unique, insights into how ecosystems work.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Leadership, Ecosystems

Chinese Companies Are Transforming Business—and the West Is Struggling To Keep Up
BrinkNews
July 24, 2018
Many of the headlines covering business transformation and business success still focus on Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google, the “four horsemen of the digital economy.” Their combined market capitalization reaches into the trillions of dollars. Yet, the observation of their dominance was already being made in 2010. Much has changed since then, and the change emanates from China.

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Future of Work

The marketer of the (very near) future
linkedin
June 25, 2018
If you are a marketer would you feel comfortable leading a team made up of finance, developers, logistics and so on? Why would you have to? Because markets, customers and enterprise capabilities are all changing. And marketers have to catch on.

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Tags: Leadership, Marketing, Agile

A New Era of Disruption
Global Association of Risk Professionals
June 20, 2018
Ecosystems compound the power and scalability of innovation, and Chinese companies are showing the way.

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Future of Work

Flow, Empowerment, And Why You Might Struggle With Digital Transformation
Disruption Hub
June 17, 2018
Enterprise empowerment should lead to true anarchy and anarchy is good. It forces people to take responsibility and in most firms that's what people avoid. In fact one of the defining features of transformation failures is confusion over who should take responsibility and who is able to.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Future of Work, Leadership

How to break a bank
linkedin
June 13, 2018
Some of my favourite writers work in the banking industry. Most are critics of how banks function. If you want to know how to break the bank then follow their advice. It goes something like this:

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Fintech

Humans Are Bad at Innovation. Can AI Change That?
BrinkNews
June 12, 2018
One activity humans should be exceptionally good at is innovation. Being able to conceive of new ways to shape the material world to our advantage is what differentiates us from animals. Yet, surprisingly, while humans are great at creating ideas, they are extremely poor managers of the social processes that create stellar new projects.

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Tags: AI, Digital Disruption, Future of Work

Is Blockchain a Threat to National Governments?
BrinkNews
March 27, 2018
The blockchain technology is testing the limits of governments’ power. Thanks to the rise of cryptocurrencies and the underlying blockchain technology, we are starting to see the rise of globally interconnected “private” economies that could threaten the very concept of a nation-state.

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Tags: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Cities Need To Get Smarter about Their Food
BrinkNews
March 06, 2018
Since the turn of the century, food retailers have patched together an impressive global food supply chain. On my food shelf right now in Ireland are baby corn from Thailand, salad onions from Kenya, asparagus from Mexico, and baby carrots from South Africa.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Culture

Step 10 on the way to Flow: The customer feedback diet
linkedin
February 01, 2018
Back in Step 2 of our 12 Steps to Flow we discussed improving customer segmentation as a way of accelerating innovation. But customers are the beginning and end point of a giant loop for the modern business. We start with customers and we continuously request information from them and channel it into the mix of innovation and social interaction at our visualisation walls. Almost nothing happens in Flow without a customer commentary on value.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Agile

Platform predictions for 2018
linkedin
December 31, 2017
The world of platforms and ecosystems has come alive recently. If you go back five years there were very few people thinking and writing about them. That's not the case now. So where have we come from and where are we going?

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Tags: Leadership, Agile, Business Strategy

The Ecosystem Imperative in Digital Transformation
BrinkNews
December 28, 2017
For the most part, strategists are missing the significance of new ecosystems in digital transformation. Their importance can’t be overstated. Get this concept right, and digital transformation becomes easier to navigate. The companies that don’t understand ecosystems will become the victims of disruption.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption

The product owner as a value-discovery agent in DevOps and Micro services
linkedin
December 19, 2017
An area that is not much talked about in the modern enterprise is that roles can change very quickly but people are not allowed to develop in response to that change. There is a lag between what the company needs and its ability to give permission to people to work differently. This is particularly true where DevOps and micro services are being introduced. Ideally we would see fluidity in the roles we play; actually, there is usually a long pause while we wait for a reorg or for HR to redefine incentives.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Agile

The Ultimate Disruptive Technology
linkedin
December 15, 2017
I had mixed feelings about the title for this piece. I thought about using the word competitiveness but have a feeling a lot of people in work don't care for it that much, not as much as management gurus do anyway. Agility is on everyone's lips but we are starting to hear that leaders are becoming interested in again disruption, as in "disrupt thyself".

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Agile

China's Market of Billions
Disruption hub
December 13, 2017
How scale is going to dominate the next economic era

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Innovation

Abandon the Concept of Projects for a More Dynamic Approach to Risk Management
garp
October 17, 2017

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Tags: Agile, Digital Transformation, Future of Work

Markets of Billions
Brink News
July 13, 2017
The risks of not being able to scale

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Innovation

Markets of Billions: The Risks of Not Being Ready For Scale
BrinkNews
July 05, 2017
By the year 2050, Africa’s population will double to 2.4 billion, exceeding 42 million people per year, or a gain of more than 3 million people per month, according to the UN. The Indian population currently stands at 1.2 billion people. China sits at 1.38 billion. And though China’s fertility rates in are in decline, both of these vast populations will also grow.

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Mobility, Startups, Marketing

Managing Culture Risk: A Matter of FLOW
Global Association of Risk Professionals
April 18, 2017
Amid accelerated, technology-driven change, the key to good conduct and continuous performance improvement is more cultural than technological.

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Tags: Culture, Leadership, Management

How Failing to Develop a Disruption Model Can Kill Good Companies
BrinkNews
April 11, 2017
After the launch of Apple’s iPhone, in the third quarter of 2008 to early 2009, BlackBerry, creator of the original smartphone device, saw its market share grow from 10 percent to 20 percent. Throughout the initial phase of the iPhone, BlackBerry thrived. But then, in a rapidly expanding market, growth stalled. By early 2010 BlackBerry began to falter, a decline that would see its two CEOs and founders step down and its once ubiquitous technology quickly become irrelevant.

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Tags: Digital Disruption

Minimum Vvable product v Product market fit
Hack and craft news
February 27, 2017
Which one really moves the needle?

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Innovation

Minimum Viable Product vs Product Market Fit: which will move the needle in Financial Services?
Hack and Craft news
February 17, 2017

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Tags: Agile, Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation

Are Risk Managers Ready for Artificial Intelligence?
Global Association of Risk Professionals
February 17, 2017
Results of research into AI adoption in finance

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Tags: AI, Digital Disruption, Fintech

Think like a startup?
Hack and craft news
January 18, 2017
Should large companies be looking to act like a startup? Sure, but like everything in business, the simple idea carries important nuances.

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Innovation

Agile, Dual Innovation and Process Model Innovation: Where to lay your bets
Hack and craft news
January 04, 2017
In traditional discussions of innovation there was always a divide between execution and innovation. Or put another way, process model innovation (changing the core) has been something of a taboo. A belief grew up that execution, the process, has to be protected from change. No longer.

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Innovation

The Culture of Innovation Revisited
Hack and craft news
November 10, 2016
It is easy to give a view on the important issue of how to create a culture of innovation. Rather more difficult is to clarify what type of innovation and culture change is relevant to any given circumstances. We are currently overwhelmed with messages to “fail fast” but that is just one culture of innovation and it hardly guarantees success. It's time to widen the agenda.

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Innovation

Design as Culture. The Problem of Humanising Innovation
Hack and craft news
November 09, 2016
Design thinking is more than just innovation. It is a broadly based approach to solving problems. But does it go far enough in humanising the world around us? Hack and Craft talked to one of the leaders of the design thinking movement in Europe, Arne Van Oosterom.

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Innovation

Agile Artificial Intelligence Innovation Lean Strategy personHaydn Shaughnessy eventOct 31, 2016 Fostering the IT Business Dialogue Part 2: The new language of business
Hack and craft news
October 31, 2016
In the first part of this short series, I focused on aspects of IT that people on the business side typically don’t keep abreast of. That lag creates tension in IT-Business relationships, which in turn slows down innovation. The business often does not know what modern IT is capable of - in terms of applications, speed of delivery or integration. But the same could be said reciprocally - that IT does not always keep up with the language of business. In fact, today we are seeing a new language that only a relatively small group of companies is really on top of.

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Innovation

Designing for the autonomous generation
Hack and craft news
October 26, 2016
Design thinking has become deeply embedded in strategy over the past decade but new challenges are now emerging, not least how to design for a new autonomous generation of devices, interfaces and even vehicles.

Anna Haupt is an expert in combining safety and fashion and is now working for NEVS, the autonomous car company. Hack and Craft caught up with her to talk about this new world where design has to make humans comfortable and safe in advanced environments like self-driving cars.

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Innovation

Fostering The IT Business Dialogue Part 1: The new language of IT
Hack and craft news
October 21, 2016
To the IT department a minimum viable product can mean an opportunity to interact with customers with a basic new prototype. To a business leader, a minimum viable product might mean the minimum that is viable in the market. There are big differences between those two - from a few wireframes to help elicit interest, to a debugged system ready for prime time.

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Innovation

The organisational roots of disruptive innovation
Hack and craft news
October 03, 2016
The classic definition on disruptive innovation has two main parts. One is the existence of organisations that have the power and resources to scale a new but untested technology; the second is that incumbent organisations focus on the current and near term needs of their existing clients. That means they spend their resources on responding to these with incremental or sustaining innovations rather than being radical.

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Innovation

Experimental Capitalism
The world's Management Forum
September 07, 2016
It seems like an amazing time for entrepreneurism. Yet, if measured by the net addition of new companies to the US economy, home of the startup, or the number of new startups, entrepreneurship has been in decline for twenty years, according to both the Kauffman Foundation and Brookings Institute.We have convinced ourselves that the startup scene is vibrant and we need to ask why.

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Startups

Manifesto - The Innovation economy
hack and Craft News
August 05, 2016
Introducing a new magazine on innovation

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Innovation

Analyzing Risk During Economic Transformation
Global Association of Risk Professionals
July 07, 2016
A case for “structural risk management” at a time when industry-level disruption and convergence are taking place posing structural threats to incumbents

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Tags: Culture, Leadership, Management

Bright side to Brexit: UK's ecommerce platform potential can easily surpass that of Europe
IB Times
June 28, 2016
No doubt many of us did not want it to happen, but now the vote is for leaving the EU, there are some mature voices telling us to live with the consequences. Part of the new accommodation relies on figuring out where the UK economy can play to its strengths.

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Innovation

Alibaba, TenCent, Baidu and the top ten most disruptive mega-platforms
IB Times
May 25, 2016
was surprised to read The Economist this past week complaining that the idea of the business platform is confused by overuse. There is confusion, but that's mainly because of the way people in the West construct their view of the global economy.

When we see the global economy, we see continuity. But our vision is clouded by hope. It would be comforting to think changes in the global balance of power will come gradually. But actually it is going to hit us fast.

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Innovation

Creating options in a complex world
Bush10
May 24, 2016
In the true spirit of information sharing, nexxworks’ Peter Hinssen interviews author, thought-leaders and keynote speaker Haydn Shaughnessy about disruptive innovation, unpredictability, externalisation, open source movements, ecosystems, platforms and risk taking.

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Tags: Innovation

Alibaba advances: How China is using fintech to take control of global trade
IB Times
April 27, 2016
The global fintech ecosystem has been presented like the board game Risk, with banks, fintech startups, traditional IT providers and GAFA companies (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon), distributed at each corner slowly advancing. As apt as the Risk analogy is, it tends to miss out the most important geopolitical force on the board: China.

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Blockchain Critique: For 2016, Questions of Risks and Rewards
Global Association of Risk Professionals
January 08, 2016
A critical look at Blockchain

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the new enterprise strategy problem too many options
Gigaom
October 02, 2015
In the good old days, when most of today’s most senior executives got their business education, only three ways to acquire sustainable competitive advantage were on offer. At least that was the theory of Michael Porter – they were cost leadership, differentiation and focus.

I guess today you’d have to add: creating a platform that has a committed community, being the modern utility (in other words providing a platform on which other people do business), capturing the high ground in an ecosystem (like ARM, by owning and developing the major design skills in mobile chips), or providing a very high level of integration to the end customer (as Alibaba is doing by covering off merchant sales, financing customers (on the way to its second multi billion dollar business), providing ticket sales, taxi rides (on the way to its third multi-billion dollar business) and being a bank, among other things.

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Beyond Disruption and Digital Transformation: A New Framework for Business Process Redesign
Gigaom
September 15, 2015
Too many people are talking about digital as if the binary world began yesterday. Are companies really in the grip of digital transformation? Didn’t that start in 1995? There are more fundamental shifts going on than “digital”: the trend towards business platforms that enable other businesses; the layering into the economy of services businesses that are not dependent on assets; the creation of the gig economy; speed; oh yes, and mobility too, being detached from a central bureaucracy, going it alone or at the very least shouldering the expectations of entrepreneurship even when you are in work.

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Options as Strategy – Deep(er) Disruption Lessons From Kodak
Gigaom
July 28, 2015
There’s a worthwhile debate to be had around whether emerging technologies or emerging sensibilities (human interaction, strategy frameworks, choice) are the most significant factors in responding successfully to disruption. I will explore options as that human-centered framework, building on this GigaOm disruption report, in a series of posts over the next couple of weeks. Optionality needs to become a formal framework for strategy and GigaOm Research has been a pioneer in figuring out how that framework should function.

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Haydn Shaughnessy on Innovation, Disruption, and Not Being Part of the Noise
Collective Next
April 01, 2015
We’ve worked with Haydn Shaugnessy and we’ve been impressed by both his big ideas about disruption and innovation and his ground-level advice on how to respond to those profound challenges. His most recent book, Shift, is full of insights on how to succeed in what he calls “the emerging post-crisis economy.”

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Everything As A Service And Not Just For Telcos
Import from forbes.com
July 31, 2014
Ericsson is a behemoth of 100,000 + employees in 180 counties and provides infrastructure for a large portion of the world's telecommunications traffic so what is it doing snapping up a tiny East Coast billing platform?

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption

Oops! Likely No Sapphire Screen For The iPhone 6
Import from forbes.com
July 29, 2014
Will Apple be able to launch the iPhone 6 with the much-awaited sapphire crystal screen? It looked a done deal until earlier this week. The big question is does it really matter?

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Surprisingly iPad's Drop In Sales Is Not Samsung's Gain, Welcome To Tablet Transformation
Import from forbes.com
July 25, 2014
We've become accustomed to Samsung and Apple dividing the market for tablets between them with a small category of also rans. That is now changing. The market for tablets is showing signs of serious transformation.

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Google, Apple And Facebook Are In The Clear. So Why The Angst?
Import from forbes.com
July 24, 2014
The major tech companies (Google, Apple and Facebook) are finishing off another round of earnings announcements and a lot of teeth grinding is over for another three months. One conclusion might be. We have never seen companies use intellectual capital to create market dominance on this scale with s

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Apple-IBM Alliance Is Already Threatened By Startups
Import from forbes.com
July 22, 2014
Apple's partnership with IBM has sent IBM into the kind of fantasy world in needs to avoid, dreams of dominance. In healthcare the partnership is already threatened by start-ups.

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Facebook Buy Button Could Be Amazon Reviews On Steroids
Import from forbes.com
July 18, 2014
Facebook's announcement of a new "Buy button" experiment in the USA is right on the money. Advertising won't support content indefinitely into the future and retail is stressed. What an opportunity.

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Why Music Is The Next Big Battle For The Tech Titans
Import from forbes.com
July 17, 2014
What is the big attraction in music to the global tech-titans? It might be that we are on the cusp of redrawing e-commerce.

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Everything as a service and not just for telcos
Forbes.com
July 14, 2014
The move towards everything as a service

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The Future Business Platform - You
Import from forbes.com
June 30, 2014
There is a different way to do data, one that avoids the furore that followed news of Facebook's emotional experiments on users. Think business platform. Think user-first.

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What Did The Innovator's Dilemma Get Wrong?
Import from forbes.com
June 27, 2014
Last week saw one of the most interesting business debates for a long time - did Clayton Christensen get the innovator's dilemma right or wrong? But maybe there are more interesting questions to ask.

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Apple Health Kit As A Major Platform Innovation
Import from forbes.com
June 19, 2014
The smartphone sector has set the pace in systemic innovation, changing not just the product but the way business is done. Apple is taking the model a step further with Health Kit and Home Kit. I already touched on the data management implications - will Apple turn the tables on Google [...]

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The Revolution Hidden In The Apple Health Kit
Import from forbes.com
June 17, 2014
Apple is about to change the relationship between brands, data and customers. That's the secret sauce in its new Health Kit offering, according to several observers of data and security. Greg Lloyd over at Traction Software, the collaborative work platform, puts it like this: "Google, Yahoo and oth

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In Healthcare, Apple Will Struggle To Match Huge Samsung Ambitions
Import from forbes.com
June 11, 2014
While Apple earned a lot of kudos for its announcement of Health Kit last week, and will bring the power of its brand to the health sector, its main rival Samsung has many more irons in the fire and looks well placed. Who will win in health?

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Google Asks, Should We Be More European?
Import from forbes.com
May 31, 2014
Larry Page has expressed concern that Europe's "right to be forgotten" law could aid repressive regimes but at the same time suggested Google should be doing more to think European on some issues, even praising European vigilance on privacy. The larger picture though is one where Google's approach t

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Capitalist's Dilemma Ignores Unsung Heroes Of Enterprise Innovation
Import from forbes.com
May 23, 2014
There's a strong claim in June's Harvard Business Review from Clayton Christensen and Derek Van Bever: companies are not investing in the kinds of market-creating innovations that lead to substantial new wealth creation, and jobs, because short term gains, produced with dubious metrics, satisfy the

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Apple And Google Head To Functional Fashion
Import from forbes.com
May 16, 2014
The technology market continues to recompose itself in front of our eyes. Apple picks up music-device fashion brand Beats, Google signs up a new leader for its Google Glass launch plucked from a string of marketing tasks at the intersection of technology and fashion (but with more fashion than tech)

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How The Smartphone Ecosystem Model Will Disrupt Business Everywhere
Import from forbes.com
May 11, 2014
Google's loss in its legal wrangle with Oracle over its use of JAVA APIs in Android could be a sign of more problems to come. The API economy is about to broaden its impact across many more sectors. Here's a look at why.

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Can Europe Repeat Its Dominance In Mobile?
Import from forbes.com
May 04, 2014
Europe has been in crisis since about 1989. At least that's the perspective of Euro-parliamentarian James Elles as he talks about the state of the European economy. Surprisingly, Elles is talking glass half full. There's a real chance that the new European Parliament (elections are in May) will fina

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Nike FuelBand Reveals New Truth Of Competitive Advantage
Import from forbes.com
April 26, 2014
Corporate strategy is made to look easy by companies like Apple, Google and Samsung so when a shoe and apparel maker comes along and tries to get in on the act, what can go wrong?

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The Challenge Of Defending Smartphone Leadership
Import from forbes.com
April 24, 2014
Apple is demonstrating something special about the new way of doing business. It's mastery of strategic options planning is a lesson to other businesses and there's one great example of that.

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Autodesk Grafts On A New Way To Innovate
Import from forbes.com
April 15, 2014
Autodesk has had a mixed six months, its stock price first rising and then taking a bath in the general decline of tech stocks at the start of April. Stock analysts remain bullish - its new revenue model moves customers away from purchase margins to recurring revenues, a must-have in [...]

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On Galaxy S5 Launch, Smartphones Have Become The Model For Innovation Everywhere
Import from forbes.com
April 11, 2014
In 125 countries today you can go out and buy a new Galaxy S5. One more Samsung product hits the road. If you're an observer of the smartphone industry then you've witnessed business at hyper-speed, while sitting in the front row. Apple growing its developer ecosystem to the hundreds of [...]

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Apple v Samsung Case Highlights The New Innovator's Dilemma
Import from forbes.com
April 03, 2014
Apple is determined to drive home a point in its battle with Samsung, a point about its superior hardware innovation. But maybe the day of the device as the symbol of Apple's brand is over. Is this a symbolic struggle with less and less relevance to each company's business?

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Samsung Galaxy S5, Best Display Ever
Import from forbes.com
April 01, 2014
The Samsung Galaxy S5 won unexpected plaudits this week. Thought there was no real technological innovation in there? Seems like Samsung has been hiding it away.

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Apple Pursuit of Samsung Starts Bordering On Farce
Import from forbes.com
March 31, 2014
When Apple and Samsung step back into court today it will be one more round in a long running dispute but is it also becoming a drag on Apple's resources, and a reputation millstone that Apple carries around its neck? There are in fact three protagonists in this month's case. [...]

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Google And Facebook Hedge Against The Data Backlash
Import from forbes.com
March 30, 2014
It's fascinating to see Facebook's rapid diversification, first into fee-based services, via WhatsApp, and now into virtual reality. Google too is establishing the new American conglomerate, spread across smartphones, medicine, finance, fiber and more. Two companies highly dependent on advertising a

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Google, Android Step Up In Wearables (On The Way To Robotics)
Import from forbes.com
March 18, 2014
Google is showing itself once again to be a master of modern business strategy. Today the company announced that its Android operating system has been adapted for wearable computing, starting with watches, and with a sizable contingent of key partners attached to the project. One of those is Samsung

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Samsung Enriches Galaxy Smartphones With Milk Music
Import from forbes.com
March 08, 2014
Samsung has launched a competitor to Apple iTunes Radio, itself a service that quickly captured market share in digital music with 11 million unique visitors in its first three days, last Fall. The Samsung service is called Milk Music and is free to end-users as well as ad free. It [...]

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Good And Bad In The Samsung Galaxy S5 Launch
Import from forbes.com
March 06, 2014
Samsung designed a low key launch for its new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5. The phone was unveiled at Mobile World Congress (MWC) last week with an equally low key message - customers are not interested in whiz-bang technology. How did it work out? Samsung's desire to shift the focus away [...

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Google Drags Smartphones Into The Really Modern Age
Import from forbes.com
February 28, 2014
The future of all hardware is modular and ecosystem driven. The smartphone industry is a hold-out but maybe not for much longer.

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With Galaxy S5 Samsung Sees A New Way To Win
Import from forbes.com
February 27, 2014
The decision by Samsung to hold a low key launch for its new Galaxy S5 phone could have dampened enthusiasm for the new smartphone. What are the early indications?

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Galaxy S5 Majors On Fitness But Samsung Is Taking A Chance
Import from forbes.com
February 24, 2014
So Samsung has launched the Galaxy S5and played safe, claiming consumers don't want innovative tech for its own sake. The S5 is more like an Apple interim upgrade, waiting on the big changes ahead. Samsung's strategy still looks risky. It has some interesting features. PayPal integration with the fi

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Samsung Is Staring Down The Barrel With The Galaxy S5
Import from forbes.com
February 23, 2014
We are just a day away from the launch of Samsung's new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5, but things have rarely been quieter from the Korean manufacturer. What's up?

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Apple Will Make The iPhone 6 Display The 'Killer App'
Import from forbes.com
February 22, 2014
Rumors around the iPhone 6 have focused on the possibility of a significant increase in screen size and the use of Sapphire Glass. I think the real change will be in the technology of the display. The iPhone 6 display will be a significant improvement over any other LCD smartphone. It [...]

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Fast Growing Opportunity In Europe's $86 Billion App Economy
Import from forbes.com
February 13, 2014
In the global battle to achieve parity in smartphones, Europe's achievements are diminishing. But we know the modern economy is about software and services, so perhaps the Europeans are making it up on the software side? So it seems.

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Apple Paving The Way To 'Revolutionary' Display
Import from forbes.com
February 10, 2014
Apple looks to be priming quantum dot technology for use in its next generation of products. Display expert say QD will revolutionize displays, but Apple is late to the game.

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Will There Be Enough In The Galaxy S5 To Compete With The iPhone 5S?
Import from forbes.com
February 05, 2014
It seems almost certain now that the Samsung Galaxy S5 will launch ahead of schedule, with an unpacking on February 24th and a launch in time to contribute to Samsung's Q1 earnings. Samsung was beaten up badly by Apple following the launch of the latter's iPhone 5S at the end of [...]

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Samsung Galaxy S5 Comes Early, And With A Hint Of Desperation
Import from forbes.com
February 04, 2014
Samsung has announced a preview of the Galaxy S5 on February 24th at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Sort of. Invites have gone out to the press for what Samsung is describing as Unpacked, Episode 1 with a large 5 emblazoned on the invite (twice). All a big tease. Might [...]

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7 Takeaways From Google's Sale Of Motorola To Lenovo
Import from forbes.com
January 30, 2014
Google has sold its Motorola subsidiary to PC maker Lenovo, a company on a roll right now with faster growth than Samsung in mobile devices. What does the deal really mean?

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Super Bowl 2014 Will Also Stir Up The Lifestyle Computing Revolution
Import from forbes.com
January 29, 2014
The SuperBowl is a small but important experiment. What will the future stadium experience feel and look like, Google is there with a few new ideas.

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Apple Sells Well Again, Here's Why It's Being Punished
Import from forbes.com
January 28, 2014
There's surely one over-riding reason for disappointment in Apple this morning and that's the company's lack of progress in wearables and the home. Once again,Apple has enjoyed record sales of its flagship phone but like Samsung it is under pressure. The difference lies in how the two are reacting T

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T-Mobile, The Late Adopter That Picks Up The Innovation Kudos
Import from forbes.com
January 23, 2014
John Legere, president and CEO of T-Mobile, has a great line in coming late to the party while looking like the host. The company's mobile money initiative is its latest "innovation" and is a great example of T-Mobile as a slow-follower that nonetheless looks good. There are important lessons in [..

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Apple, Move Into Phablets Or Lose Out To Windows
Import from forbes.com
January 21, 2014
Having created the tablet market with the iPad, Apple has been woefully slow into Phablets. As yet it does not have a large screen smartphone (a plus 5.6 inch display). But unless Apple acts quickly the Phablet market will shape up into a two horse race, without iOS. According to a [...]

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The Enigma Of Google Glass, "Doomed", Fashionable, Innovative And Late
Import from forbes.com
January 20, 2014
Google Glass is becoming an enigma. Over the past week the fashion world, via hair care product vendor L'Oreal, made a bigger commitment to the, as yet, un-launched device. But at the same time uber-advocate Robert Scoble began talking of this as a year-2020 product. He even used the "doomed" [...]

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Google Buys Nest, The $3 Billion Distraction
Import from forbes.com
January 15, 2014
Google's recent record in hardware acquisitions has not been great but there is an area of its business where it has hard baked advantages over everybody else out there - and it is not to do with data or ads.

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12 Companies That Want A Part Of Your Body This Year
Import from forbes.com
January 14, 2014
The body is the next battleground for companies that want a place in the age of the device but if you thought this was just about the smartphone giants extending their franchise, then think again.

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The World's Most Innovative Companies, A New View
Import from forbes.com
January 13, 2014
When we think about innovation we're usually thinking about an output - the shiny new gadget but here's a completely different take on innovation, one that gets to the nub of what companies really need to have in order to thrive and adapt today.

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Why Apple Is Losing Ground To The Samsung Brand
Import from forbes.com
January 11, 2014
Apple has had an exceptional run in the global brand rankings but its competitors are far more popular in social media - is it costing Cupertino more that we realize?

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Google To Intel, Welcome To The New American Conglomerate
Import from forbes.com
January 10, 2014
Announcements from Google and Intel in the first week of 2014 confirm a trend that was already pretty solid but overlooked in 2013. And no, it's not wearable computing.

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In One Word, The Big Difference Between Good And Bad Mobile Shopping
Import from forbes.com
January 07, 2014
A small number of companies really get mobile shopping and what sets them apart from their competitors is the choice of operating system, Apple v Android. No prizes for guessing which one comes out on top but what about the margins?

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Will The NSA Hack Wreck Apple Hopes In China?
Import from forbes.com
January 07, 2014
Estimates of Apple's potential gains in the China market following its deal with China mobile vary widely but is everyone overlooking the potential downside from the NSA Apple hack?

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Social Media Can Help Prevent Target Credit Card Losses
Import from forbes.com
January 05, 2014
40 million credit and debit cards affected by Target's security breach has finally put the dangers of online shopping in the spotlight. Who has the answer?

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What makes Samsung such an innovative company
Forbes
June 20, 2013
analysis of Samsung's innoavtion program

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation

How Samsung Became Such A Formidable Competitor
Forbes
March 13, 2013
Analysis of Samsung's growing innovation capability

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7 Books
Transformation Sprint
The Transformation Sprint
October 25, 2020
Digital transformation will be the words on most people’s lips during 2021, as the world looks to ameliorate the impact of COVID but transforming is notoriously difficult to get right and failure rates run at the 80% mark. At last, there is a method to help you through the challenging times ahead.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Innovation

Transformation Sprint
Flow Academy
September 30, 2020

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Future of Work

Shift: A Leader's Guide to The Platform Economy
Tru Publishing
October 18, 2016
An account of how disruptive platforms can be and how ot take advantage of that

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Leadership

Flow: A Handbook for Change-Makers
FlowAcademy
October 18, 2016
A description of just-in-time process design that will become the workflow of the future

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Leadership

12 Steps to Flow
Flow Academy
October 18, 2016
12 steps to getting to just-in-time process design that will become the workflow of the future

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Leadership

Platform Disruption Wave
Tru Publishing
May 25, 2016
`a look at theories of disruption from a historical perspective and why the current disruption is so profound

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Future of Work

The Elastic Enterprise
Olivet Publishing
May 01, 2012
One of the first accounts of the platform and ecosystem form of enterprise

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Ecosystems

1 Book Chapter
Managing culture risk - a matter of Flow
Michael de la Maza
July 16, 2015
Published as part of the best agile articles 2017

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Innovation

5 Coursewares
The value discovery mindset
Irish management Institute
January 12, 2021
Rethinking innovation so that product teams can get a deep understanding of customers and be sure that their ideas are highly relevant before pushing them into the product development funnel

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation

The Transformation Sprint: How to use agile methods to plan significant change
Flow Academy
December 02, 2020
Courseware

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Agile

Rethinking Innovation through Value Discovery
Irish management Institute
November 10, 2020
Rethinking Innovation through Value Discovery

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Innovation

Flow Fundamentals
loetb
October 22, 2020
An introduction to Flow Fundamentals

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Innovation

Mastering Flow Fundamentals
Irish Computer Society
August 02, 2019
A one day course to help students understand and practice the principles of value based agility

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Future of Work

1 Executive Director
Member Industrial Advisory Council, Maynooth University Business School
MUBS
January 02, 2021
Advising the fastest growing business school in Europe as an advisory board member

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Innovation

7 Founders
The Flower Project
Haydn SHaughnessy
January 17, 2020
A website of flower photography and wilting flower images that draws attention to the plight of flower workers in Africa and contribute small amounts of money to them

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Ecosystems

Flow Academy
Flow Academy
April 18, 2018
Helping to fix broken transformations with the Flow framework

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Future of Work

Metaview Ltd
CRO
October 05, 2016
A consulting company that offered services in business operating model analysis and change

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Ecosystems

The Disruption House
The Disruption House
August 01, 2015
Creator Fintech Scorecard

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Fintech

Via Knowledge Ltd
CRO
February 10, 2013
A research firm that worked particularly in the area of semantic analysis of trends online

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Tags: Big Data, Emerging Technology, Fintech

Ten Cubed
Wikipedia
February 02, 2008
A virtual reality gallery in Second Life, designed by a real life architect that ran from 2009 for two years and staged exhibitions of real life artists such as Jon Coffelt

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Dexer, social search
The Irish Times
June 10, 2005
A tool and platform that allowed people to index web content and share it with other people through specialist interest folders, allowing them also to create ecosystems of associated thinkers

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Ecosystems

6 Influencer Awards
Thinkers360 Digital Disruption
Thinkers360
December 23, 2020
#1 for several months in 2020

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Tags: Digital Disruption

Thinkers360 Ecosystems
Thinkers360
December 19, 2020
Number one thought leader

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Tags: Ecosystems

Future of Work
Thinkers360
December 18, 2020
Top 20 several times

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Tags: Future of Work

Digital Transformation
Thinkers360
December 18, 2020
Top 3 several times

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Tags: Digital Transformation

Fintech
Thinkers360
December 18, 2020
Top 20 several times

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Tags: Fintech

Innovation
Thinkers360
December 18, 2020
Top 20 several times

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Tags: Innovation

10 IP Assets
Transformation Sprint
UK IPO
October 09, 2020
As above

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Innovation

Trade Mark Flow Operating Model
UK IPO
August 20, 2020
As above

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Ecosystems

Lighthouse Thinking Trade mark
UK IPO
May 20, 2020
As above

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Innovation

Trademark
IPO London
May 01, 2020
For Enterprise Flow

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Value Based Agility
Flow Academy / Medium
August 05, 2019
Value based agility introduces a proactive approach to value in agile settings. Given that most transformations fail to meet expectations it is essential to consider why teams fail to deliver. The answer is that agile has no value framework - enter value based agility, a set of tools for bringing value to the hear of agile activity.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Future of Work

A framework for value based agility
medium
May 10, 2019

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The Fintech Scorecard
The Disruption House
August 10, 2016
A system and framework for scoring the capability of Fintechs seeking to work with banks

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Fintech

Key Capability Indicator (KCI) Trademark
UK IPO
March 13, 2015
As above

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Ecosystems

Decision Model Canvas Trademark
UK IPO
June 06, 2014
As above

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Ecosystems

The Elastic Innovation Index
Blue Fin Solutions
January 10, 2014
A framework for assessing the innovation capability of firms (introduces the concept of key capability indicators)

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Future of Work

13 Journal Publications
Creating digital transformation: strategies and steps
Journal of Strategy and Leadership
April 18, 2018
An account of applying just-in-time work design to major enterprise initiatives through extreme visualisation, this article majors on process innovation.

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Tags: Culture, Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation

Creating digital transformation: Strategies and steps
Strategy and Leadership
March 01, 2018

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Tags: Agile, Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation

Harnessing platform-based business models to power disruptive innovation
Journal of Strategy and Leadership
October 18, 2016
An account of how disruptive platforms can be and how t take advantage of that

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Leadership

Harnessing the power of platform business models
Emerald, Strategy and Leadership
September 02, 2016
What is wrong with how we think about platforms and why we need to think about ecosystems in order to grow

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Ecosystems

Infinite Scope and Scale: The Rise of Mega-platforms and the Risk to Banking
GARP
May 26, 2016
Why Chinese platforms pose a risk to western banking

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Ecosystems

Haydn Shaughnessy: understanding the shift to the new economy
Strategy and Leadership
May 18, 2015
Interview on elements of the new economy by Steve Denning Forbes Columnist

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Ecosystems

Crowdsourcing the ecosystem’s expectations: a decision-making process to manage the unmanageable
Journal of Strategy and Leadership
April 18, 2014
A research paper on working with business ecosystems

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Ecosystems

The Global Innovation Interest Indiex
Harvard Business Review
June 08, 2011
Proposes a way of indexing innovation capability using big data

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Innovation

The HBR Approach to Failure
Harvard Business Review
March 28, 2011
An analysis of the HBR archive and scholarly writing on business failure

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The HBR Approach to Failure
Harvard Business Review
March 18, 2011
Analysis of 40 years of Harvard Business Review articles and what it reveals about the way failure has been treated.

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Tags: Culture, Leadership, Management

Web 2.0 as a natural evolution
Harvard Business Review
September 20, 2010
A continuation of a study on the use of semantic clustering in assessing trends online.

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How Semantic Clustering Helps Analyze Consumer Attitudes
Harvard Business Review
July 18, 2010
Use of semantic clustering tools to help determine changes in customer attitudes

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How Semantic Clustering Helps Analyze Consumer Attitudes
Harvard Business Review
July 09, 2010
A look at new semantic clustering technology and how it can help with profiling customers

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18 Keynotes
der agile Kompass - Warum so viele agile Transformationen frühzeitig an bekannten Klippen scheitern und wie man diese umgehen kann?
Hopin
October 23, 2020
Herzlich Willkommen,

bei einer agilen Transformation gibt es viele Dinge zu beachten, wir (Harald Wild und Holger Gelhausen) möchten mit Euch folgende Themenbereiche ausleuchten.

1. Wie können wir unser Kundenverständnis (intern/extern) weiterentwickeln?

2. Welche Kompetenzen und Domänenwissen brauchen Coaches und Berater?

3. Am System arbeiten! - Am Menschen arbeiten?

4. Welches interne Wissen und Mastership brauchen Unternehmen in agilen Transitionen?

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation

Transformation Sprint: Time-Boxing Business Transformation In Order To Drive Banking Innovation
Innovation im Banking - Mut fassen, Perspektiven bewerten und Stolpersteine vermeiden
September 04, 2020

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Innovation im Banking - Mut fassen, Perspektiven bewerten und Stolpersteine vermeiden
Hopin
September 04, 2020

Wie gelingen Innovationen im Banking?

Neben den technologischen Möglichkeiten werden weitere Innovationsansätze immer wichtiger:

Management Innovation - Welche Leadership und Führungsmodelle ermutigen?
Organisation Innovation - Wie wird Arbeit organisiert das Abstimmungsprozesse schneller gelingen?
Mitarbeiter Innovation - Wie werden neue Themen attraktiv für Mitarbeiter?

Wir begrüssen Sie zu diesem Lerncamp

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Doing the right things: harnessing the power of value-based agility
Business Agility Midwest
November 07, 2019

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Doing the right thing(s): Harnessing the power of value based agility
Business Agility Midwest
November 07, 2019
A presentation on how value discovery and value delivery can work through better social interaction at work

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Agile

Global change and business agility
Business Agility Institute
November 05, 2019
My main topic -transformation. How competitive conditions are changing and why that means work needs to change too

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Bridging the IT-Business Divide - The Key to Good Agile
Windays
April 12, 2019
Taking agile methods out of the IT shop to the whole business won't work without rethinking the agile framework. The value of new architectures and infrastructure like Cloud is being lost because of traditional silo behaviour between different aspects of the business and IT. While the IT-business divide has long been a problem it is now a critical blocker of enterprise agility, In this keynote speech Haydn Shaughnessy provides a framework and techniques for bridging the divide, bringing true agility to the enterprise and improving competitiveness in a changing economy.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Future of Work, Leadership

Tech Trends for 2018 And Beyong
Austin Forum on Science and Technology
January 10, 2018

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The Challenge of Innovation in Financial Services
FSDKenya
April 20, 2017

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Why Banks are Failing the Innovation Test
Kenyan Banking Association / FSD
April 06, 2017
A look at the reasons why banks fail to innovate and what they can do about it

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Rethinking the Business Model for the Economy of Platforms
Kongress Media
September 02, 2016
How platforms and ecosystems function

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Ecosystems

Being AI REady
Global Association of Risk Professionals
July 07, 2016
On the results of a survey into Ai use in finance

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Killer Platforms
SWIFT INnotribe
October 12, 2015
A study of the Chinese business platforms and their impact on financial services.

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Creating a new innovation dialogue to meet the needs of disruption
Hype Innovation Manager's Forum
May 28, 2015

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Creating a New Innovation Dialogue To Meet the Needs of Disruption
HYPE
March 13, 2015
Presentation to the client base of one of the leading innovation platforms

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Creative Decision Making at SIBOS Innotribe
SWIFT Innotribe
September 10, 2013
Reviews ways in which companies make decisions in oligopoly environments and how they could do better.

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The Elastic Enterprise
Nordic Innovation
December 04, 2012

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The Elastic Enteerprise
Nordic Innovation
December 04, 2012
Keynote to Nordic Innovation on the ideas contained in the Elastic Enterprise

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28 Media Interviews
The Life and Career Stories of Today's I.T Leaders
Nutanix
January 14, 2021
A three part interview on digital disruption and business transformation, giving very practical advice to our audience

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Haydn Shaughnessy on Platforms and Ecosystems
NetMJC
December 12, 2019
as per the above

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Interview with Haydn Shaughnessy and Fin Goulding
Gary Monti Podcast
December 03, 2019

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12 Steps to Flow
Being Human
November 23, 2019
How flow principles ca support transformation

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Digital transformation
Rob Llewellyn
September 27, 2019
In this episode, Rob speaks with Haydn Shaughnessy, Number 1 in the Thinkers 360 list for Digital Transformation and Digital Disruption and a pioneer of platform and eco-system strategy. A regular contributor to Forbes and author of several books, his book “Shift” is a leader’s guide to the platform and ecosystem economy and was described by Forbes as “everything you need to know about digital transformation.” In addition to this, and along with his partner Fin Goulding, he has developed a method for assessing value and directing innovation effectively as part of what they call the Flow Framework. Now as Founder of the Flow Academy, Haydn works with organisations especially interested in creating platforms to troubleshoot and design transformations to give them the best chance of success.

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Transformation, platforms and the ecosystem economy
Digital Transformation People
September 16, 2019
A wide ranging interview about my views on platforms and ecosystems

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Haydn Shaughnessy on Innovation, Disruption, and Not Being Part of the Noise
Collective Next
August 01, 2019
Why I gave up an audience of a million

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Donosimo vam intervju s keynote predavačem Haydnom Shaughnessyem
Windays
April 03, 2019

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We need to talk abut business agility
Irish Computer Society
March 14, 2019

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12 Steps to Flow
Being Human
November 23, 2018
An interview on the book on Being Human

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Innovation in the new economy
Voltage Control
October 11, 2018
Innovation

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Go with the flow: Haydn Shaughnessy on simplifying digital transformation through Flow
Business and Finance
May 17, 2018
I work with organisations in different parts of the world – could be London, could be New York – and most of what I do is help them to define threats that are disruptive threats. So I don’t do the kind of classical management consulting about who your competitors are; it’s more like – ‘What’s going on in the world that’s going to throw up some surprises and force you to change very quickly?’

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The Dynamism in Chinese Platforms and Ecosystems
Innovation Manaagement
November 17, 2017
A review of Shaughnessy's work on Chinese platforms

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Artificial Intelligence: Do Risk managers Get It
FinOps Report
November 08, 2017
Interview with me on a GARP study on Ai and risk management

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Being AI Ready
GARP
October 19, 2017
AN interview conducted by GARP on being AI read in risk management

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Interview with Haydn Shaughnessy about how banks are innovating or not
Daily Fintech
July 15, 2016
as per the above

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GaARP Risk Convention
Global Association of Risk Professionals
July 07, 2016
On the results of a survey into Ai use in finance

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Digital Transformation needs thinking about in terms of a destination than just the journey!
Enterprise Digital
May 10, 2016

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Alibaba advances: How China is using fintech to take control of global trade
International business Times
April 27, 2016

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Haydn Shaughnessy on Shift
Chris Voss
April 13, 2016
An interview on my then new book Shift: A Leaders Guide to the Platform Economy

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Being AI ready
GARP
February 05, 2016
Results of my research into AI readiness in financial services

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Banks should stop dreaming about blockchains and start looking at Alibaba
IB Times
October 13, 2015
~Banks have been seduced by blockchain technology when they should be addressing their problems with platform innovations that could be achieved today - the sort of thing done most effectively by the likes of Alibaba.

Banks should change their processes but have become obsessed with product, believes Haydn Shaunghnessy, an expert on disruptive technology and the author of SHIFT: A User's Guide to the New Economy.

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Interview with Haydn Shaughnessy about how banks are innovating – or not
Daily Fintech
June 10, 2015
An interview about bank innovation

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Creating options in a complex world: Peter Hinssen interviews Haydn Shaughnessy
Nexxworks
January 15, 2015
Interviewed by thought leader Peter Hinssen

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How Samsung could develop the 21st century’s answer to Bell Labs
BGR
June 12, 2013
innovation at the Korean giant

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Galaxy S IV called Samsung’s 'last act in Apple’s shadow'
Fox News
March 12, 2013
A look at the Apple - Samsung smartphone wars

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Interview with Haydn Shaughnessy
Nordic Innovation
December 14, 2012
After my presentation at their conference

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Innovation platforms
Fabian Shlage
November 17, 2012
An interview by Fabian Shlage about my keynote at Hype Innovation

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4 Panels
Transformation Sprint: Time-Boxing Business Transformation In Order To Drive Banking Innovation
Cork University Business School
August 24, 2020

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Agile theatre
Columbus Agility Media
November 07, 2019
Panel discussion on agile and reality

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Agile

Developing your innovation competency: a three stage model
Hype.de
September 10, 2019
How to improve innovation skills and governance

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Disruptive’ Chinese innovation is a signpost to the future
SIBOS
October 13, 2015

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1 Podcast
Obfuscation
Alexa Stop
November 20, 2019
A podcast on what comes next interviewed me for my views on ecosystems

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6 Speaking Engagements
Transformation Sprint:
John Coleman/LinkedIn
December 02, 2020
A livestream interview with John Coleman on the concept of a Transformation Sprint

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The Number One Innovation Challenge: Delivering at Scale, Scope and Speed in a Hyper Competitive Economy
Innov8rs.com
December 11, 2019
FREE ONLINE EVENT 9-13 December 2019

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Tags: Design Thinking, Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption

WinDays19 - Haydn Shaughnessy intervju
youtube
April 03, 2019
Donosimo vam intervju s keynote predavačem Haydnom Shaughnessyem.

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Platform Thinking and Network Effects
SWIFT
October 14, 2014
as above

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The Financial Innovation Index
SWIFT Innotribe
October 14, 2014
Using data from 5000 companies this speech points out which companies are scoring well on the elastic innovation index, delivered to the financial industry conference SIBOD

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The Innovation Capabilities Index
SWIFT INnotribe
September 12, 2014
A speech to the SIBOs gathering of financial experts on how to grow innovation capability

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3 Trainings
The Transformation Sprint: How to use agile methods to plan significant change
Irish management Institute
January 12, 2021
A look at why transformations fail, in particular around the tendency to use traditional planning techniques to initiate change, this course looks at how to use agile methods to create the roadmap to an agile organisation

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The Value Discovery Mindset
Irish management Institute
November 27, 2020
Rethinking innovation so that product teams can get a deep understanding of customers and be sure that their ideas are highly relevant before pushing them into the product development funnel

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Tags: Design Thinking, Innovation, Leadership

The Value Discovery Mindset
Irish management Institute
November 12, 2020
Rethinking innovation so that product teams can get a deep understanding of customers and be sure that their ideas are highly relevant before pushing them into the product development funnel

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Tags: Design Thinking, Innovation, Leadership

12 Webinars
Lighthouse Thinking
Future of Work, Scotland
August 05, 2020

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Lighthouse Thinking (TM)
Future of work Scotland
August 05, 2020
A presentation to future of work, Scotland

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Learn How to Create a Value-Seeking Enterprise as a Flow Practitioner
MountainGoat
January 24, 2020

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52 business models of the future
Future proofing next
September 24, 2019

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52 ~Business Models
Future proofing next
September 24, 2019
Business model innovation revisited

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Managing Conduct and Culture Risk
GARP
April 17, 2017
How these two risk affect banking

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What does Banking as a Business look like in the future?
Brighttalk
October 13, 2016

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The Rise of Mega-Platforms and the Risks to Banking
GARP
May 25, 2016

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The new economy and the role of community
Community Roundtable
March 06, 2015

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Next-Gen ECM: Developing Content-Centric Applications for the Software-Defined Enterprise
Gigaom
June 14, 2014

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Building Content-Centric Applications – the New Shift in Enterprise Content Management
Gigaom
June 10, 2014
If the software-defined enterprise is structured around applications, those applications are structured around content. Information is the core of any modern business. It’s the biggest leverage an enterprise has to disrupt, innovate, and improve, and the application is the bridge between that information and your customer. Managing those assets to deliver content where and how your customers need it requires new tools and approaches that weren’t available in the paper world.

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The software defined enterprise
Gigaom
June 10, 2014
Every business develops software, but relatively few embrace it as a competitive currency. For most enterprises, software development is a necessity, but for others, it’s a competitive differentiator. Tesla’s software has fundamentally changed the way we control an automobile and placed a 10 year-old startup at the head of the connected car race. Nike has used software to redefine itself as a fitness lifestyle brand, expanding far beyond the competitive and low-margin world of apparel manufacturing.

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7 Whitepapers
How Companies Address The Disruption Challenge
Hype.de
August 26, 2016
How innovation strategies can mitigate disruption

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Growing Adaptive Innovation Through An Innovation Maturity Model
Hype.de
August 10, 2016
Based on interviews with leading companies and practitioners this paper presents three phases of innovation maturity, a tool to help companies improve the innovation capability

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The Platform for Disruption How China’s FinTech will change how the world thinks about banking
Innotribe at SWIFT
October 10, 2015
An account of how Chinese fintech companies (the BATs) will dominate the global economy.

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Hardware design innovation
Gigaom
July 16, 2015
Hardware-centric innovation poses interesting challenges for a software-centric economy and a design community nurtured on core iconic products like the iPhone. Many believe in the idea that physical shape and interface are the disruptive elements of design. In the future design will take hold after the product launch.

This Sector RoadmapTM looks at the emerging infrastructure of product development and asks whether we have already passed the era of iconic design. It’s a little different than our Roadmaps that focus on a single product segment: In this analysis we examine key trends in design innovation that are shaping hardware in general, whether that is a cell phone, a toy, or a wearable medical device.

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Innovation In FinancialServices: The Elastic Innovation Index
Innotribe at SWIFT
January 10, 2015
Ranking banks by their capability to innovate

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Renewing tech company growth through radical adjacency
Gigaom
June 11, 2014
For 30 years enterprise leaders have been encouraged to identify and build on a core set of competencies. But that is now over. Encouraged by the success of computer company Apple in becoming the world’s leading smartphone maker and the world’s most successful retailer, they must figure out how to build strategies to enter new, bigger markets.

This is the radical-adjacency approach: the decision to move into wholly new markets or to go to market with an entirely new class of product and to redefine the organizational form to succeed.

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Creating Elastic Digital Architecture
Cognizant
September 06, 2012
Applying elastic enterprise principles to cloud architecture

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2 Workshops
Bringing agile to the board
Winmark
November 11, 2020
A look at how boards can make sense of the agile imperative

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Flow Academy
Business Agility Midwest
November 05, 2019
a two workshop at Business Agility Midwest, 4th and 5th November 2019

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Radar

3 Predictions
2021 Predictions for Digital Transformation

Date : October 17, 2020

In 2021 I expect a wave of realism to come over companies and a corresponding reduction in big transformation programmes. To ensure good outcomes companies need to apply agile methods to transformation design, which is exactly why Fin Goulding and I wrote Transformation Sprint. Taking an agile approach means scaling transformations back to a manageable level where new ways of work can more easily be deployed and then scaling up only when the right experiences have been learned. That way the early part of a transformation becomes a learning mechanism and a design opportunity. Scale down to skill up with a transformation sprint. We will see that become the default method.

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2021 Predictions for Future of Work

Date : October 15, 2020

Of course we are going to be concerned with remote work, and managers will become increasingly anxious about the commitment of employees, but the big change will come about because traditional work cannot be replicated when people work from home. I expect that to lead to a new breakdown in corporate task flows. These will be executed by much smaller units, almost like bubbles of people who can congregate and work in a hybrid virtual/real setting with real entrepreneurial responsibility. In turn this means companies learning how to break work down by value (Flow) rather than by sequence (project management) so that new value tasks can be allocated to teams on a regular basis and so that non-value work is radically reduced or eliminated.

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2020 Predictions for Digital Transformation

Date : September 25, 2020

2020 will bring perfect vision to many executives and they will see why their digital transformations have gone wrong. Applying a model with land and expand consultancy firms does not work. If their vision holds up then they will a) realise they need to analyse markets rather than just serve customers and b) foster the high quality social relationships help people to feel safe enough to innovate at scale scope and speed.

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1 Article/Blog
The Moonshot and the Lighthouse: Rethinking COVID Recovery Strategies
Thinkers360
December 03, 2020
Ambitious goals remain part of the landscape of business, but big projects have given way to agile adaptability. In place of moonshots we should be talking about a lighthouse, a project to show the way.

As medical challenges give way to economic ones, understanding why moonshots don’t work and lighthouses do, could make the difference between a strong participatory recovery and a long recession where Governments flounder around for answers.

Just to recap for anyone who missed it. The UK Government has proposed a £100 billion moonshot project to radically reduce the country’s COVID disease exposure.

Moonshots became popular when Google began using the term for its out of the box research projects around 2010 (they brand them as X projects and even “the Moonshot factory”).

Inspired by John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assertion that the US would fly to the moon (because it was difficult!), Google and parent Alphabet have sponsored projects to support Ocean diversity, grow more plants in ways that are better for the panet, and self-driving cars,

The End of R&D

Their moonshot mindset is to tackle long-term, technically challenging and maybe even impossible tasks. Dressed as a moonshot of course it doesn’t sound like any ordinary R&D but that’s what it is, deep R&D of the sort that gave us advances like AMOLED displays (a dream from the 1930s) or rocket propulsion. Nonetheless, it is R&D of a kind that doesn’t often appear on the balance sheets of many digital companies.

A 2019 paper by a group of academics from Duke University and the University of East Anglia pointed out that the tradition of fundamental research from large corporates has been in decline since digital began defining innovation methods. Companies now prefer to rely on ecosystems of startups and ideation programs.

We shouldn’t hold out much hope that the corporate world would even know how to develop a post-COVID agenda for society.

So against that background, even an opportunistic approach to COVID has some merit. But big challenges today often need a much different approach.

Big projects, big failures

A few bits of data set the context: At least 75% of big enterprise change projects fail to meet expectations (there are studies that put the figure closer to 90%). Big platform projects, a vogue in industry right now, fail 80% of the time. Anything big stands at least a 75% change of failing.

London’s Cross Project is due to cost about £3.25 billion more than originally projected. The three year delay may end up being four and according to the FT the extra cost adds up to £30 million week. But that’s the way with big projects. HS2, coincidentally another rail project, will overrun by at least £18 billion.

The data shows that big projects leading to massive failure is the norm. For that and many other reasons, business practitioners have been trying to dump the big project mindset now for two decades.

Is agile enough?

Success has been patchy here too. There is an “agile” movement out there. New tools in software development offer IT departments, notoriously vulnerable to cost and schedule overruns, a number of advances: a lot of automation to cut the people factor down, smaller packages of work so that managers can keep better control, more focus on the benefits of the project rather than following the plan for its own sake. But those big project failure rates have not come down by much.

In a situation such as COVID 19, there are already enough Moonshots in play; developing a vaccine within 12-18 months is a big moonshot. Conversely, track and trace in Ireland succeeded off the back of a low cost local app, showing there is a place for small and effective too.

If a Moonshot is needed, it is more in the area of economic transformation. Once we accept that the western economy will lie crippled through 2021 as it has through 2020, then we need to a) understand the permanent changes to economic life that COVID has probably already made inevitable and b) whose lives can be rebuilt and c) how.

But here too, small and effective could be the right answer. In our experience the problem with large projects is that they seem incapable of escaping traditional project design tools and governance. So much goes into planning them and setting up the rulebook that governance and the plan become bigger goals than actual value.

The role of the Lighthouse Project

In our work we developed the idea of a lighthouse project as a way of getting to big project outcomes through small, relevant and valuable steps.

A lighthouse project has five different objectives: it should address a structural problem; it should be designed to deliver value early and regularly; it embraces new ways to work and uses those methods to do the design; it creates a learning environment; and through that it ensures even the small steps are the right steps. We design them in four weeks not four months of a year.

An important distinction for the Post COVID economy is that the lighthouse can be small enough to be inclusive.

Step 1 is to gather perspectives on what needs to change or what needs to be done rather than rely on one version of the truth. And while steps 2 and 3 are all about documenting key issues, by step four we are outlining a project that will take a problem out of the big project environment to a scaled down, derisked, do-able task list where value will be delivered in weeks.

The dust that settles on the medical emergency of 2020, will cover most of the UK economy. We will face the need for a structural transformation. The lack of commuters will have hollowed out our cities; our towns may prosper but who knows for sure. Any business associated with people gathering together will downsize.

Conclusions for the Post-COVID economy

A good portion of people will look at their lives and feel the equivalent of shell shock. The wealth they hoped to create and the dreams they could reasonably aspire to will be in pieces. We will have to prioritise the fight against loneliness and disillusionment.

But on the upside, many great businesses start in times of adversity. The challenge is going to be how oily makers at local, town, city and national level create agendas for change and how entrepreneurs can identify and target emerging new needs.

That needs the lighthouse rather than the moonshot. We need projects that show us how to change, what steps to take and how to begin creating new value are small, inclusive, participatory and designed in new ways.

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