Our work, views & career tips.
-
The Strategy Pulse | June 2026: The Org Design Reckoning
May was about execution: whether companies can actually deliver on their strategies. June is a harder question. Before you can execute, your structure has to allow it. And right now, a lot of organisations are discovering that it doesn't.
-
The Sharp End Skills, stories & signals shaping tomorrow’s teams Edition 9 — June 2026
Over the past eight editions, we have covered a lot of ground. Retrainability. AI literacy. The power shift. Integration. Non-linear careers. Each one has been about adapting — becoming more visible, more connected, more legible to a market in motion. This month, a different question. Not what you need to become. But what it takes to last. Because the strategists who fade are rarely the ones who stopped trying. They are the ones who kept trying — furiously, visibly, permanently — in the wrong direction.
-
Research and Insight Review – June 2026
June 1st - hayfever and BBQ season is in full swing, and agency and client relationships are shifting. Here's what's happening in the insights and strategy space right now, and what it means if you're in it.
-
The Strategy Pulse | May 2026: The Execution Gap
Welcome to May's Strategy Pulse. For the past two years, strategy has been dominated by one question: are you using AI? Boards asked it. Investors asked it. Consultants made good money helping people answer it. But a different question is starting to matter more: can you actually deliver on what you've planned?
-
Research and Insight Review – May 2026
The market isn't broken, but it is changing shape. Here's what's actually happening in the insights and strategy hiring space right now, and what it means if you're in it.
-
The Sharp End Skills, stories & signals shaping tomorrow’s teams Edition 8 — May 2026
Last month we looked at the integrator: the strategist who creates value by connecting functions that weren't designed to speak to each other. This month, a harder question. If that kind of work is increasingly where the value sits — lateral, relational, cross-functional — why does it so rarely appear on a job title, a pay band, or a performance review?
-
The Sharp End – Skills, stories & signals shaping tomorrow’s team – Edition 7 — April 2026
Last month we looked at where power is moving in AI-accelerated organisations: away from information holders, toward those who can align functions around a shared direction. This month, a natural question follows. If alignment is the new currency, who actually does that work — and what does it take? The answer is increasingly: the strategist as integrator.
-
The Sharp End — Edition 6: March 2026
✍️ Editor’s Note Power Didn’t Disappear. It Moved. Over the past two months, we’ve talked about leverage and visibility. But visibility alone doesn’t guarantee influence. To understand what 2026 demands of strategists, researchers and insight leaders, we need to look at something bigger:
-
Research and Insight Review – February 2026
From the rise of AI explainability to the return of ‘old school qual,’ here’s what’s been shaping the insight space this month.