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What we’ve learned from running businesses, building products and delivering change: written up plainly, from experience rather than theory.

6 min read · Innovation · Product development

Clarkson’s law

The duration of a project is inversely proportional to how deeply the problem is understood. Or, more simply: when your thinking still fits in a paragraph, you are a long way from launch.

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5 min read · Innovation · Ways of working

Lost in translation

Every handover in a project loses information, adds delay and pulls people away from the big picture. The answer is not better handovers. It is fewer people, closer together.

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5 min read · Innovation · Product development

Going too big, too soon

Committing a large budget on the strength of written requirements is one of the most reliable ways to waste it. Build a working version first: the economics of doing so have never been better.

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6 min read · Innovation · Product-market fit

You can build a brilliant solution to a genuine need and still fail, because customers buy what they want. Product-market fit is where wants, needs and your product finally agree, and finding it is a discipline.

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6 min read · Leadership · Change

The player-coach

Organisations are usually offered a choice between advisers who bring insight but never do the job, and operators who do the job but leave nothing behind. The player-coach refuses the choice: do the work, and build the people while doing it.

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7 min read · Digital transformation · AI · Change

How to make a success of digital transformation

The technology changes every decade; the principles do not. Five principles that decide whether a transformation succeeds, the watchouts we see in practice, and what each one means now that AI is the agenda.

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Project in mind? Questions to ask?

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Insights

Clarkson’s law

Lost in translation

Going too big, too soon

Getting product-market fit

The player-coach

How to make a success of digital transformation

Project in mind? Questions to ask?