Posts by Ian Byrne

How our work developing Collective Intelligence and embedding whole system change processes for a global sporting organisation enabled them to successfully implement a new digital transformation strategy to double double revenue in spite of difficult market conditions. The Challenge A global sporting brand was struggling with market disruption caused by the proliferation of digital platforms…

How Living Systems enabled a fast growing technology business to design and deploy a new operating model fit for scale by developing their capacity for Collective Intelligence and adopting a whole-ecosystem approach to system design. The Challenge A fast-growing, agile business in the technology sector had been scaling rapidly. Its global technology function was struggling…

How a fast-growing telecommunications company overcame resistance to change to successfully roll out its new business model by developing the capacity for Connected Intelligence and embedding whole system change processes. The Challenge An emerging European leader in the telecommunications space had grown substantially over recent years and needed to overhaul both its business model and…

How a fast growing technology business used the principles of Collective Intelligence to enable its new senior leaders to connect and act quickly and effectively as a collective whole to successfully design and roll out a twelve month transformation programme across the business. The Challenge A new CTO had been appointed in a fast growing…

How our work developing Collective Intelligence with the leadership team at a global technology company enabled them to move past toxic conflict, develop greater trust and connection and adopt more effective working practices. The Challenge For several years the leader of one of the biggest business units at a global technology company had been trying…

How Living Systems enabled the European leadership team of a global software firm to radically transform its strategy, taking it from consistent underperformance to one of the top performing groups in the organisation globally in less than two years. The Challenge The European leadership team at one of the world’s top software businesses was underperforming,…

How we designed a revolutionary high potential leadership development programmes for one of the world’s most well-known, fast growing technology companies, resulting in a major cultural shift towards greater cross-boundary collaboration and integration. The Challenge One of the world’s most well-known, fast growing technology companies recognised a need to introduce new development programmes for its…

How Living Systems helped one of Europe’s pioneering engineering businesses to overhaul its approach to leadership recruitment and onboarding to improve collaboration and drive innovation across organisational silos, resulting in a significant uptick in business performance. The Challenge At a time when markets were being heavily disrupted by fast moving digital change, one of Europe’s…

How Living Systems helped a fast growth software company to rebuild its leadership development programmes by fostering a culture of turbocharged learning through Action Inquiry. The Challenge One of the world’s fastest growing software organisations needed to drastically overhaul its leadership development programmes. To date, leadership and management development had been based largely around didactic…

We intervened in a group where conflict was out of control to repair relationships, transform the group dynamic & overhaul effectiveness