Leadership Advisory

Your Exec Committee and their direct reports will need to focus on the leadership needed for digital transformation. This is a whole-company initiative and covers organisational, behavioural and technical transformation. Your leadership is what makes the difference.

Economic Incidence

Economic Incidence

Taxes don't fall where the law says they should. Economic incidence shows that VAT, payroll taxes, and corporate levies shift onto workers and consumers through lower wages and higher prices. Understanding who really pays is essential for business strategy and fair policy.

Conformity, Work Culture, and Change

Conformity, Work Culture, and Change

Conformity shapes behaviour at work, helping teams run smoothly but often silencing ideas and concerns. When people align out of fear rather than conviction, innovation and honesty suffer. The challenge is to keep useful norms while creating space for dissent and fresh thinking.

Planting an Apple Tree - Acting When the Future is Unclear

Planting an Apple Tree - Acting When the Future is Unclear

When organisations face decline, the rational choice is often retreat. Yet true leadership shows in choosing to build, even in uncertainty. Pursuing modest, risky initiatives can revive culture, unlock new value, and signal courage - the defining act that can outlast the crisis.

Law of Requisite Variety

Law of Requisite Variety

Global functions must develop requisite variety to manage complexity across regulatory, operational, and stakeholder dimensions. Ashby's Law shows that effective control requires sophisticated structures, technology, and capabilities matching the variety of scenarios multinationals face.

Embracing Chaos

Embracing Chaos

We must recognise that despite our desire to control everything, we cannot. Simple principles can allow complex and dynamic situations to be managed successfully. By giving your staff autonomy to make decisions, backed up by tried and tested rules of thumb they will succeed where controls fail.

Project to Product Transformation

Project to Product Transformation

Companies must pivot from a project-dominant model to one that builds products. One in which finite timing, discrete funding and tight control are replaced by a continuously funded product development team that is empowered to experiment, explore and meet real-world customer expectations.

Data and analytics informed transformation

Data and analytics informed transformation

Data and analytics provide valuable, actionable insights from both inside and external to your organisation. This gives clarity on internal operational efficiencies, and also on new opportunities that play best to your strengths. These insights help you build the right digital capabilities.

Innovation

Innovation

Innovation transforms creative ideas into commercial advantage through new products, processes, or business models. It's essential for survival: regular innovation protects market position, drives differentiation, and builds resilience. Without it, businesses face decline and obsolescence.