The COVID pandemic and lockdowns around the world caused widespread disruption in numerous industries. Management teams have scrambled to find new strategies for growth and survival while workers struggled with lost income and blurred boundaries. In my article Coronavirus and the Zoom Boom I argued this was also an acceleration of digital transformation, something that …
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Done. It’s a word that everyone wants to hear. Especially your boss, your spouse, your study supervisor. It’s a word you wish you said more often. If you could just get focused and stop procrastinating. Burn Your Boats and Kanban can be combined to help you master your time and your tasks. Many of my …
The world has changed more in the last 10 years than it has in the last 60 years. Entire industries have been turned upside down, especially by something called digital disruption. You must help your organisation adapt through creating a culture of learning. It starts with you, your team, your department and the whole environment …
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Virtual combat has spilled into the boardroom as Fortnite has been kicked off the Apple App store for violating in-app payment guidelines. Fortnite is rallying its users to fight back against what it calls the “App Store Monopoly”. But it’s more complicated than just a popular video game standing up to an anti-competitive big bad …
This week I’ve coached four people through progress blockers by helping them to work (and think) in multiple parallel streams towards the same end goal. One of them is a postgrad student working on a final report but she didn’t know where to start. I explained that each section is like a parallel stream which …
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“Running my first workshop during lockdown felt like an out of body experience” … I’ve put together a brand new online course to help you run better workshops. You will learn how to prepare and run a workshop to drive alignment even if everyone is working from home and attending your workshop using video conferencing …
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, 70% of companies were on some sort of digital transformation journey. During lockdowns around the world, a billion people have surged onto digital platforms to work from home. As a result, the world’s digital transformation has accelerated by 3-5 years and digital is no longer a differentiator, it’s …
I have finished my PhD … These are five wonderful words! Due to COVID-19 lockdowns, there will be no ceremonial graduations at Wits University this year, but it was a significant milestone to receive the letter. I have been studying Agile software development teams in large organisations for the past 4 years using a research …
According to last night’s Vent-Con 2020 conference, about 10,000 people worldwide are trying to build ventilators to help solve the anticipated shortage due to COVID19. Highly qualified speakers from various countries shared a panel to showcase their projects, discuss design considerations and help get teams from “workbench to deployment”. I was interested in all these …
