Buy this cartoon "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity". The legendary World War 2 American general George S. Patton thought that the Highest Ranking Person's Opinion should be confined to the goal (the what) - not the how. The [...]
Buy this cartoon The highest paid person's opinion (HIPPO) can really derail attempts to introduce Agile, or any flatter working practices for that matter. Virpi @voinonen
From time to time I run a workshop where I ask people to draw a three panel comic strip about a problem they are struggling with. We are not trying to solve anything with this exercise – only describe the problem and its impact. This is how it works: First panel: The Goal! Where we [...]
The Confused CEO's Guide to 21st Century Organisations is a cartoon book (comic book) about business buzzwords everybody uses but no-one can explain: complexity, agile, design thinking, organisational culture, innovation and self-management. The story is told through the eyes of a confused CEO who is trying to make sense of it all. Each chapter [...]
Digital workplace adoption can be tricky. People stick to email and their local hard drives despite the fact that there are shiny new collaboration and file sharing tools available. This happens because there is no support for behaviour change. And no-one tells employees WHY they should use these new tools - what's in it [...]
Buy this cartoon Are you measuring activity that might not make much sense anymore? You might be working in an output oriented team. Virpi @voinonen
This infographic explains API projects and some of the ways they can go wrong - as well as how to avoid these costly mistakes. It also briefly touches on the theme of platform economy of which APIs are an integral part. The infographic was commissioned by an API consultancy called Osaango.com. I would love to draw [...]
Couple of years ago I went to a talk by the (then) head of HR of Google Laszlo Bock at my alma mater London School of Economics (he was plugging his book Work Rules - Insights from inside Google that will transform how you will live and lead). One thing that caught my attention [...]
Have you ever had to ask people to change how they work? Maybe you’ve introduced a new process, a new piece of software etc. It was pretty hard, wasn’t it? Behaviour change doesn’t happen simply because you’ve told people to change. One of my clients approached me with a behaviour change dilemma. He was responsible [...]
The Corona virus (COVID-19) has been jokingly hailed (?) as the true driver of digital transformation within organisations. While it's true that digital collaboration tools (Zoom, Slack, Teams, Yammer and what have you) have seen staggering adoption rates, the concept of "digital transformation" is broader than that of digital collaboration tools. See the cartoon [...]