Collaboration and the Fractal Organization

Many of you have never heard of fractal organizations, I hadn’t until I talked to a colleague working on the Hyperloop project, which she described as a “fractal organization.”  I could not find it on Wikipedia, but google (today’s source of all knowledge on the Internet) had a variety of listings. I looked at an…

The last few pieces of the jigsaw

Just 2 days until the September 14th and the official launch of the Agendashift partner programme! It seems a good time to review what we have and take a look at some of the most recent changes: The Agendashift values-based delivery assessment: Not your typical consultant’s practice-centric checklist (forgive me if I sound cynical here) but a non-prescriptive, non-judgemental, methodology-neutral.

Tailoring Code

Over time, even with the best of intentions, code bases will tend toward entropy if constant effort isn’t made to improve and maintain them. Even revisiting your own code which has sat untouched for years, after your learning and knowledge has expanded, will look worse than you remember leaving it!

How to Communicate Your Needs At Work

How to Communicate Your Needs At Work When people come to understand the disadvantages of ordering others about, some can over-compensate by avoiding all forms of telling. This can lead to frustration, inaction and disconnection. One of the things these awakening folks can struggle with is communicating their needs to others. Because they shy away from …Read More

Simplifying Business Operations with Server Virtualization

Organizations can gain numerous financial and operational benefits by employing a thoughtful server virtualization strategy.  Today, we will focus on just a few of those benefits. It wasn’t too long ago that many people looked at virtualizing servers in the production environment with great trepidation. There were legitimate fears over … Read More

Doing business with the Public Sector

[Hacked from a recent post I put on LinkedIn but with the emphasis shifted to show the possibilities of working with the public sector] We are now in the middle of HMRC’s IR35 public sector consultation and it appears they have decided the rule changes are going ahead regardless, as reported in various places. I…

Why is AI Critical to Collaboration?

When you listen to the news and predictions of millions of people losing their jobs to robots and AI, this is really not new, it has been happening for the last 20 years. Although it will displace some workers, my guess is that many of those workers can be retrained to do things computers and…

Bioteaming and Collaboration

“Natural selection is not a master engineer, but a tinkerer” Jerry A. Coyne, “Why Evolution is True” Many of nature’s mistakes are contained in the fossil record, but there are many of nature’s creations that are very effective and have lasted (virtually unchanged) for millions of years (the shark for example). David Zinger did a…

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