Future of Work

  • How To Find And Nurture Digital Readiness

    When someone in public service says, ‘I don’t use social media. No one wants to know what I had for breakfast!’ I hear, ‘I don’t have the vaguest interest in understanding how an increasing number of citizens get information or… Continue reading

    How To Find And Nurture Digital Readiness
  • Why Do We Still Need Managers?

    “Management is not only dysfunctional, Management is also destructive” – Companies Without Managers Last week we held the first of the Bromford  #inspiremelab sessions – where colleagues curated and then discussed provocations around the future of how we work. We covered… Continue reading

    Why Do We Still Need Managers?
  • Digital Transformation is Failing. Why?

    “A key reason why true mobile working isn’t being implemented is because of management culture. The case for mobile working has been proven; it is the people who are the biggest barriers.”- 2017 Deloitte Human Capital Trends report The way… Continue reading

    Digital Transformation is Failing. Why?
  • How Automation Helps Us Solve The Problems That Matter

    “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” – Elbert Hubbard Automation gets a bad rap. The original draft of our design principles stated “Automate everything that can be automated”. People… Continue reading

    How Automation Helps Us Solve The Problems That Matter
  • Lessons From a Year Spent on a Two Pizza Team

    Work alone. You’re going to be best able to design revolutionary products and features if you’re working on your own. Not on a committee. Not on a team – Steve Wozniak In the early years of Amazon , as the… Continue reading

  • Managers are waste: Five organisations saying goodbye to the boss

    “Until there is a monumental shift in the leadership dynamic from the old fashioned command and control to a collaborative, status free, matrix way of working, then the debate about the need for an office (in the traditional sense) will… Continue reading

  • Robot Revolution: Our disappearing jobs and the future of work

    “Imagine a pair of horses in the early 1900s talking about technology. One worries that all these new mechanical muscles will make horses unnecessary. The other reminds him that everything so far has made their lives easier. Remember all that… Continue reading