Curious Consulting

So, we’ve had connected coaching, we continue with the alliteration with curious consulting. We have been thinking about how our curiosity is useful and valuable to our clients. Defined as a “strong desire to know more about something” or “ the state of being curious: inquisitive, wondering, working to figure something out”. We started with the…

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Enterprise Architecture by Design

It has been a very useful process for us taking Enterprise Architecture (EA) as our theme this month. Not least because its given us the opportunity to review what we have been doing, what we have noticed about what really adds value from doing EA and to consider what’s next. Especially as the rhetoric that…

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Intelligent Governance – Key to Value from AI

We have been holding back on an insight on AI. It felt like a bandwagon not worth jumping on, nor lamely exploiting in pursuit of clicks. Yet we have thoughts, as experienced practitioners in how digital technology delivers value we have insight we thought we would share. If only to clarify for ourselves our position.…

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What’s the Point? Getting Strategy Right

Prompted by reading and reflecting on a recent article “Getting strategy wrong and how to do it right instead” published in McKinsey Quarterly, we concluded that the best place to start is with the “what’s the point” question. Real, open, informed discussions amongst senior leaders are essential if you are going to get strategy right.…

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Developing Key Relationships to Enable Delivery of Value

Teams Delivering Value

A recent article in Harvard Business Review identified four elements of the playbook that differentiates organisations that deliver class-leading productivity improvement. The ability to capture value from digitisation was the first of the playbook’s elements. Based on cross sector research by a team from McKinsey, the playbook’s other elements were “investing in intangibles”, “building a…

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