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How Lean and Structured Teams Amplify Productivity
In her talk, How a Lean and Structured Team Topology Amplifies Productivity, Rutuja Joshi focused on the change management process, and how it impacts productivity in organisations.
Implementing Sustainable Organisational Agility
How do executives progress with implementing authentic, sustainable and organisational agility to achieve their goals? How do they evolve from where they are to where they go next?
Agile is great, but sometimes it’s easy to miss the point
Agile has been a buzzword in the business world for quite some time now. Which company doesn't want to jump on the bandwagon of Agile ways of working, especially with remote working being here to stay?
“Honey, I shrunk the backlog” – Rebuilding agile processes
Many successful teams deliver backlog items every day, but their backlogs aren't consistently getting any smaller. Delivery success is overshadowed by the never-ending backlog.
A Case Study in building an adaptive, flexible organisation
Dinesh was faced with another complex challenge while engaging with an international client in consumer services: implementing organisational design whilst coaching for technical excellence.
Organisational Ambidexterity: Managing Tensions
Usually, tensions arise when there is a tug of war between capability and demand. If left to themselves, the results can be chaotic. The balance of tensions is fundamental to Russ Lewis’ philosophy.
“Kanplexity” – Kanban for Complexity
In our recent Lithe Talks, John Coleman talked us through Kanplexity, which relies on the concept of sense-making developed as part of the Cynefin framework.
The basics of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) is a goal-setting framework that was developed by Intel in the 1970s and has since been adopted by many successful companies.
What is Kanban and how can it work for me?
Kanban is a method for managing and improving work across all kinds of organisations. It was developed by Toyota in the 1940s as a way to improve efficiency and has since been widely adopted in a variety of industries.
Basics: Continuous Improvement (Kaizen)
Kaizen is a philosophy and set of practices that was developed by Toyota in the 1950s and has since been widely adopted in industries around the world.
Agile Transformation: 6 steps not to miss
An agile transformation is the process of adopting agile principles and practices in an organisation to improve the way work is managed and delivered.
Big Room Planning In 4 Steps (in 2024)
‘Big Room Planning’ is a method for coordinating complex projects that brings together a group of stakeholders in an open space to work collaboratively.
Adaptive organisations and their values
An adaptive organisation is one that is able to quickly and effectively respond to changing circumstances and adapt to new challenges.
Empower Your People: Decision Making
Improving any of the elements of decision-making - quality, speed, implementation correlates with financial performance.
The Adaptive Art of Communication
How employees engage within the workplace can be the difference between how an organisation thrives or breaks down in the process.
Turning frustration into collaboration
When looking for transformation opportunities, as a consultancy, one of the key areas that we look to transform first is the synergy between departments within organisations.
5 Tips for OKR’s with Agile - with Allan Kelly
A goal-setting framework used by individuals, teams and organisations to define goals and track outcomes, the OKR framework worked well for the former CEO at Intel.
Case Study: Retail Company (in the woods!)
A large Spanish retail company approached us for help with their agile transformation. 40 different systems and a large team of software developers with various tools in use.