Looking Fourth

    & The Blog... A Picture Paints a 1,000 Words Why are visualisations such a powerful part of transformation and change management? in part it's because a single image can convey a lot of information in a much more compressed format than writing everything down. I think we can all agree on that. I also think that it's because many people have a better connection with something they can see than something they can read. In part it's because for many of us it's easier for us to create our own mental image and our part in it, as well as interpreting it in our own way. As a systems thinker I don't constrain myself to one or two methods. I range across the spectrum of systems methodologies as build a multi-method approach that makes sense for the transformation and where we are in the phase of that change activity. I'm a big fan of Peter Checkland's Soft Systems Methodology (or SSM). A very important part of this method is the Rich Picture. Over in the  The...

  & The Blog... Looking Fourth Why is this blog called Looking Fourth? This is a supplement to my personal side project, The 4th Horizon . For the last nine years I have been working with Microsoft in all things to do with digital strategy and digital transformation. What became apparent is that the majority of customers, large and established businesses, were struggling with the practicality of trying to identify, prioritise and execute transformation projects grounded in technology. A small team combined and adapted concepts like McKinsey Three Horizon Model x and Geoffrey Moore's horizons as laid out in his work "Zone to Win" x . Every model and framework has strengths and constraints are they are more or less relevant depending on the context. "All models are wrong, but some are useful"     George Box, 1976                           So, whilst both horizon models have merit...