I help people change the way their organisations work. Mostly I am involved with supporting technology-enabled change in government. I am also one of the owners of Foden Grealy .
Stuff I have been up to lately...
- Helped develop the change strategy for the G-Cloud programme.
- Helped a government department to be more agile in delivering its IT capabilities.
- Helped spark a new, dynamic means of allocating scarce resources in a government department by collaborative rather than directive means (using social tools).
- Helped a significant number of folks in a government department to make make micro-blogging a part of their way of working.
- Helped a government department move from delivering change by mechanical formula to a much more organic (and successful) approach through self-organising multi-disciplinary communities.
- Helped establish an innovative model of technology delivery based on new open technologies, a more-sophisticated service model and collaborative behaviours.
- Helped a government department move from measuring it's performance in terms of numerical targets, to measures of genuine value, which led to better results and more fulfilled, happier staff.
I have been in change management of one sort or another since 1990 and have always had my own businesses: self taught, with a bit of pump priming at Cranfield School of Management in 1990. I have worked in both private and public sectors although now I pretty-much focus on government. The private sector work was mainly about helping entrepreneurs get new businesses off the ground; experience that I find myself relying upon more and more nowadays. If I were to pick out one thing, then I am really about helping build communities. I'm convinced that, to sustain big change in complex and dynamic environments, we must primarily attend to crystallising and sustaining cross-organisation groups of people collaborating, learning about those environments and adapting to them. I am particularly interested in exploiting the opportunities that enterprise social software is opening up to do this.
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