Visual Thinking

Previously we’ve explored how to make it easier to predict the future in business, and how vision can be a powerful tool in planning for business success. In the final post in our series about future planning for business, we …

In the last blog we spoke about the tendency to stay indecisive, while we wait for more certainty around us. But such certainty may not come, or may come  too late for us to act. A different way of tackling …

In a previous post we reviewed the accuracy of some future workplace predictions from 1995. This time we’re considering the difficulty of prediction (and its futility?). Why is it important to plan for the seemingly unpredictable, and how can we …

Hands-on in a high-tech world As we hurtle into a vast range of future worlds, each with their own number (5G, Web 3.0, Industry 4.0 etc) the past seems to retreat further behind at an increasing pace. Cloud based, remote …

What is “agile”? The word “agile” has come a long way in the past two decades. For many of us, it crept into our consciousness as the title of a collection of practices packaged as a response to the perceived …

Scrum versus Kanban (or is it Agile versus Lean versus Design Thinking?). Or is it why DevOps is impossible if you’re not Agile? Or….?  Big questions all of them, no doubt – but this one, Part 1, is just about …

I opened my copy of The Times yesterday to read the sad news that Tony Buzan, the man who developed and then popularised the technique of mind mapping, has died. Coincidentally, the only other thing on my desk at the …

Could visual thinking have clarified the Brexit debate? Visual thinking methods can add clarity – even in the muddied waters of political debate. UK readers may well have caught the recent excruciating Brexit-inspired exchange on British TV between the author …

Lean and Six Sigma have been around for a long time now, so it’s perhaps foolish to think that some people don’t know what they are, what the difference is, and how they can be used together. But it seems …