eWork-Out creates a sustained culture of “speed, simplicity and self-confidence” in your organisation

19 January 2007

Can Storytelling be used as a tool for organisational transformation?

Margaret Parkin from Success Stories, and author of several books, including, Tales for Change: Using Storytelling to Develop People and Organizations, contributes this excellent article; plus a story to ponder…  [Read More…]

4 December 2006

If you're looking for a blueprint for planning, leading and managing Change initiatives, then this is it.

Professor Colin Coulson-Thomas, author of Transforming the Company: Manage Change, Compete and Win and The Future of the Organization (both published by Kogan Page) presents a straightforward and perceptive piece for eWork-Out on the delicate balance between change and continuity…  [Read More…]

12 October 2006

We hope this, and future, similar articles, will give an insight into what eWork-Out is really like.  In focusing on some of our challenges, we hope we can pass on some useful and important skills.  Here we concentrate on group dynamics, and disruptive behaviours.…  [Read More…]

29 September 2006

This one's not so much an article, as a few notes and quotes from three recent surveys (from IBM, Economist Intelligence Unit and Cisco Systems) revealing how CEOs have placed change at the top of their agenda…  [Read More…]

2 August 2006

Colin Rule is Director of Online Dispute Resolution for eBay and PayPal, and has worked in the dispute resolution field for more than a decade as a mediator, trainer and consultant.  As author of Online Dispute Resolution for Business (Jossey-Bass, 2002), Colin has, unwittingly, been extremely influential in shaping the vision of eWork-Out.  In this article, entitled ODR for Web2.0, he surveys the terrain for the adoption of technologies that will help to bring about this vision. [Read More…]

31 July 2006

Beth L. Evard is a leadership coach, organizational psychologist and the founder of Success through People.  With Craig A. Gipple, of Leadership Solutions, Inc., she is co-author of Managing Business Change for Dummies^® (Hungry Minds).  For eWork-out.co.uk, the two have kindly contributed this article on managing resistance to change. [Read More…]

2 June 2006

Mark Fritz of Virtual Leadership and Flexible/Mobile Working specialist, Procedor Ltd writes about some of the key challenges that face an ever-growing number of teams in an increasingly “virtual world” [Read More…]

28 May 2006

On 18 April, 1990, employees of Oticon, a large Danish Manufacturer of hearing aids, received a startling memo from their new boss, Lars Kolind.  The memo, headed Think the Unthinkable, announced the beginning of a new style of management that came to be known as “Spaghetti Organisation”.  Lars recalls for eWork-Out [Read More…]

26 May 2006

Scrum, a “self-empowering”, team-based software program management approach, has found favour at some of the world's most dynamic software houses.  Though first documented by Takeuchi and Nanaka in the mid-1980s, Scrum (a metaphor from the game of rugby, i.e. a way to restart the game after an accidental infringement), was pioneered in the early 1990s by Dr. Jeff Sutherland.

Here, Dr Sutherland recounts to eWork-out.co.uk how Scrum was first applied at Easel Corporation in 1993, bearing testament to how empowering employees (in this case software developers) improves communication between senior managers and 'mainstream' employees and, generally, boosts productivity… [Read More…]

7 April 2006

eWork-out.co.uk interviews Sally Bibb, Group Sales Director of the Economist Group and author of The Stone Age Company: Why the companies that we work for are dying and how they can be saved (Marshall Cavendish Business).

Heaping praise on enlightened senior managers, her avowed aim is to inspire mainstream employees to help bring about a corporate cultural transformation. An account of our short conversation is posted here… [Read More…]

20 March 2006

eWork-out.co.uk is pleased to support the work of Gerard Fairtlough, revolutionary thinker in the world of British management, former CEO of Shell Chemicals UK and founder of biotechnology company, Celltech.

As author of the recently acclaimed The Three Ways of Getting Things Done: Hierarchy, Heterarchy and Responsible Autonomy in Organizations (Triarchy Press), Mr. Fairtlough, recognising and associating himself with the objectives of eWork-Out Business Processes Ltd, has submitted for publication, exclusively to this web site, the following essay, entitled “Kicking the Addiction to Hierarchy in Organizations”

We are extremely grateful to Mr. Fairtlough, and all at Triarchy Press [Read More…]