LINK: “Distributed teams are rewriting the rules of office(less) politics”

I wanted to seek out the experience of these companies and ask: does remote work propagate, mitigate, or change the experience of office politics? What tactics are startups using to combat office politics, and are any of them effective? Original: https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/18/distributed-teams-are-rewriting-the-rules-of-officeless-politics/

LINK: “Technology innovation in government survey”

The objective of the survey was to understand current activity across government in what might be termed new or emerging technologies that are related to digital or information technologies. Loosely defined, these are new technologies that do not currently have a critical mass, but which may have the potential to disrupt industries or generate significant … Keep reading

LINK: “All change is system change”

All change is system change — to say otherwise is to ignore a fundamental truth about organisations being living breathing human systems. Original: https://medium.com/@curiouscatherinehowe/all-change-is-system-change-85ae7917a760

LINK: “Reuse: a Recipe for Disaster”

Authoritative, yet simplistic assertions about reuse routinely bypass past experience of just how much work it takes to make something reusable. Original: https://medium.com/@davidcarboni/reuse-a-recipe-for-disaster-822cbb46d3c6

Just what is a digital operating model?

This was originally published as the lead article in my weekly email newsletter. If you’d like to get more of this sort of thing on a regular basis, sign up! I’m sure folk get bored of people like me banging on about digital transformation being more than web forms, or fancy integrations with back office systems. … Keep reading