Welcome to matrix management
We are seeing an upsurge in interest in our matrix management training at the moment. More and more organisations need to become more integrated. Sometimes this is driven by a need to improve internal...
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Has hybrid caused a global dip in employee engagement?
There was a very interesting finding in this Gallup report that employee engagement, after continuing to rise in 2020, the first year of the pandemic, then now started to fall in 2021 and 22. Their...
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Making the Matrix Agile
Over the last 10 years more and more organisations have introduced some form of matrix organisation or a more integrated “matrixed” way of working. They have done so to serve their customers better,...
View ArticlePodcast – managing talent in a hybrid world
I joined an ICAEW podcast on managing talent in a hybrid world recently with Philippa Lamb, Nick Bishop, partner at BKL and and Jo Ludlam, Senior Manager in change management at Deloitte. Despite the...
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Build layers of skills – or crash your helicopter
I came across a nice story recently in Richard Rumelt’s book Good Strategy / Bad Strategy. He was talking about how organizations build capability, and he used an example of a friend of his who was a...
View ArticleWhat’s so great about the office anyway?
There is still a lot of debate about the “return to the office”, and surveys (suspiciously often sponsored by real estate companies or others with a vested interest in getting people back to physical...
View ArticleYou can’t succeed at digital without matrix management
Whether as part of a formal digital transformation, or just the ongoing need to deliver work that cuts across the traditional vertical silos of function and geography, the ability to manage a...
View ArticleNew – Making the Matrix Work – The agile remix
Combining matrix and agile methods into a new way of working When we first published our book Making the Matrix Work in 2013 the matrix was often being used to centralize organizations – to break...
View ArticleManaging multiple bosses, teams, and stakeholders
Many people now work in a world of multiples; multiple bosses (solid and dotted lines), multiple teams (most of our training participants are now working on an average of 4 to 5 teams) and have to...
View ArticleHow ready are you for matrix success? Free assessment
As part of the launch of our updated book Making the Matrix Work – the Agile Remix We are extending our matrix management readiness assessment to bring in some of the new themes in the book. Based on...
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