When the move The Fugitive was released in 1993 I was adamant to see it straight away. Harrison Ford was one of Hollywood’s hot properties and, moreover, a leading role had been given to Tommy Lee Jones, for whom I had grown a soft spot. Initial reviews were glowing and critics seem to agree unanimously that a potential cult movie had been born.

When I left the movie theatre I wasn’t sure what had kept me spellbound; the special effects, the storyline, Ford’s ...

Is it possible to illustrate Portfolio Management to show executives how Organisational Change and Business Transformation will be managed? I gave this challenge a first stab today – and I think I am getting closer to a functional result.

Those who read my blogs regularly will have noticed that I am a passionate advocate for the use of images in business. My clients have learnt that I rather grab pencil and paper to sketch-out the topics we’re discussing; sometimes as a mindmap, and ...

Storytelling seems to make a slight furore among creative and innovative businesses as a means to better communicate their purpose, objectives and goals. Rapidly realising that employee attention is becoming harder to gain, forward-thinking executives are now increasingly adopting techniques used by social media platforms to get their messages across their enterprises.

What Hollywood, television and, more recently, YouTube and Facebook have known for years is now finally trickling ...

Teams that face stalemates in their innovation, problem solving and improvement efforts may suffer from Text Myopia. A solution may be to adopt new ways of thinking.

A while ago I consulted to an organization as part of a team that saw itself challenged by a number of seemingly irresolvable issues. The client's revenues and profits dwindled rapidly and drastic intervention was needed to change the trajectory bottom lines had taken. We devised a plan that could ...

Ask a self-proclaimed 'creative' business leader to put thinking into a picture and chances are you'll get either an Excel-generated graph or a series of worked-up PowerPoint slides.

The response will seldom be a good old Pencil-Paper drawn product which, I think, is a shame.

Pick any Junior Creative at an Advertising Agency and you'll probably have found someone who can teach even most seasoned CEO's one or two things about visualizing ...