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Evolving Enterprises: Stories of Growth Transformation

Welcome to "Evolving Enterprises: Stories of Growth Transformation", the podcast where we dive deep into the art of effective leadership. I"m your host, Prof Martin Parr, a seasoned professional who has dedicated years to empowering senior leaders in achieving their business goals. Today, I"m thrilled to share my expertise as a systems thinker, guiding you on a transformative journey for your business, charity, or pet project.Throughout my career, I"ve developed a passion for complexity and relish

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26:38

E52 – Joanne Meehan

Evolving Enterprises: Stories of Growth Transformation ·

2024/08/27

I'm delighted today to be joined by Professor Jo Meehan. Jo is the Director for the Centre of Sustainable Business and is also Professor of Responsible Procurement at the University of Liverpool’s Management School. Jo previously worked for a chemical company and developed a keen interest in the power of organisations, sustainability and the environment, which has guided her career and her home life. Jo talks about the idea of power and social inequalities within the natural world, living by ...

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E51 Wayne Turmel

Evolving Enterprises: Stories of Growth Transformation ·

2024/08/13

Today I am thrilled to talk with Wayne Turmel who has been writing about how to develop communication and leadership skills for almost 26 years. Wayne has taught and consulted at Fortune 500 companies and startups around the world and is an expert in remote working. We talk about how business leaders can get the best from staff who are working remotely. We also talk about the secrets of building an audience, something that Wayne has learned a lot about as an author of 15 books including The L...

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E50 Johannes Holtmon

Evolving Enterprises: Stories of Growth Transformation ·

2024/07/30

Today I am delighted to bring you a podcast from Troldhaugen near Bergen in Norway, the former home of the composer Edvard Grieg. Today I am talking with Johannes Holtmon who is the Musical Curator of the museum, we are considering what we can learn in business from the enduring legacy of the incredible Norwegian music, inspired by Edvard Grieg.

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14:05

Don't Accept the Either/Or - The Power of Integrative...

Evolving Enterprises: Stories of Growth Transformation ·

2024/07/16

Today I will be considering why you shouldn't accept the either/or with the power of integrative thinking. A concept derived by strategy advisor and author Roger Martin, integrative thinking is a quality that is shared throughout numerous inspirational leaders to make the most effective decisions. I explore the challenges of adopting integrative thinking, why integrative thinking is so beneficial at creating and maintaining success in an organisation, and how you can adopt integrative thinkin...

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19:05

Reflections on the Systems Thinking Apprenticeship

Evolving Enterprises: Stories of Growth Transformation ·

2024/07/02

Today I'm delighted to be joined by Elise Grint, who is the first person to pass the new Level 7 Systems Thinking Apprenticeship in the UK and will be opening up about what it was like to study within the apprenticeship and what systems thinking brings to her career. Elisse has a degree in project management but started her earlier career off as a zookeeper and then moved into the sciences to become a lab technician.

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18:36

The Challenges of Leading Third Sector Organisations

Evolving Enterprises: Stories of Growth Transformation ·

2024/07/02

Today, I am delighted to welcome my guest Kelly Jennings-Robbins. Kelly is the Executive Director of Charity Mentors Oxfordshire, board director of IAPMD and a fundraising consultant. With nearly 20 years working in the private sector and educational publishing, in recent years Kelly has transitioned into the third sector. We reflect on the unique demands and complexity in the third sector, how to make effective decisions within that space, and what lessons the private sector could lear...

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22:20

Managing risks in the external labour market

Evolving Enterprises: Stories of Growth Transformation ·

2024/06/25

Today I am delighted to chat with the founder of Red Wizard, Jules Barrow Reed and her business partner Colin Yoshoka Smith. We will be exploring the challenges we face in the external labour market and how we can best manage these risks. Jules talks about educating managers, highlighting that de-risking business through education is a first step.

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26:34

Governing Strategic Systems: Excelling in complex...

Evolving Enterprises: Stories of Growth Transformation ·

2024/06/19

I'm delighted to welcome Mark Baker for a second podcast exploring governing strategic systems. Mark talks about balancing the conversation at senior levels between risk and opportunity. Practical application of foresight and linking this with organisational purpose. We talk about methods and applications for anticipating outcomes of decisions. Does the allocation of resources mirror the priorities of the organisation? We talk about holding competing ideas at the same time and rigorously asse...

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19:42

Establishing Healthy Conversations About Risk

Evolving Enterprises: Stories of Growth Transformation ·

2024/06/11

Today I am very happy to be joined by Mark Baker. Mark is a scholar practitioner who has links into industry, academia, commerce. Mark also runs his own consulting business. Mark talks about his journey into systems consultancy. Mark has spent a lot of his career solving complex problems for large companies and international businesses. Mark talks about the importance of feed-forward controls. Mark also talks about the research he has conducted in the dynamics of executive decision making. Ma...

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25:23

An antidote to organizational inefficiency

Evolving Enterprises: Stories of Growth Transformation ·

2024/06/07

Today I am talking to Mary-Beth Hosking, who is a global CIO working in the CEO space. Mary-Beth’s new book is Not Another Digital Transformation which looks at how organisations can really do well, about how they can maintain the pace and efficiency of a startup as they grow. Transformation isn’t just about going digital. Transformation could be about re-imagining your organization from the ground up. We talk about the journey that small organisations take and how communication is easy at th...

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22:06

Public Sector Transformation

Evolving Enterprises: Stories of Growth Transformation ·

2024/05/31

Today I am talking to Benjamin Taylor who is Chief Executive of the Public Service Transformation Academy and Managing Partner of Red Quadrant. I asked Benjamin about what led him into consultancy and we talk about his first job as coordinator of a youth development program, aiming to fill places on exciting expeditions, which would have been more straightforward if the cohort of people were very confident and were used to travel. The realities of young people with lower levels of literacy or...

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23:10

Helping People to Find a Way though Complexity using...

Evolving Enterprises: Stories of Growth Transformation ·

2024/05/21

In this episode I talk to Houda Boulahbel about her journey towards finding ways of dealing with complex projects. For people who are new to this area there is always the difficulty of where do you start when the problems that you see are complex and the systems methods take time to master? It all feels overwhelming. Houda has founded the Institute for Systems Intelligence which places a systems mindset before using a toolset, and this is important in helping people to have the right approach...

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23:03

Creating Data Driven Change in our Public Sector

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2024/05/16

I this episode I am delighted to continue my conversation with Adam Townsend, founder of Viewit DataLabs Limited. Today we look beyond the data and consider the drivers for improving patient outcomes in hospital. We consider why is the system driven away from improving patient outcomes before people get to the hospital. One of the metrics that we talk about are hospital stays for respiratory conditions and diabetes that are less than 24 hours long – in the UK at least 300, 000 such hospital s...

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Getting to the truth: What is Going on with our...

Evolving Enterprises: Stories of Growth Transformation ·

2024/05/09

There is a lot of discussion about what is happening with our public services, a lot of newspaper columns are dedicated to attention grabbing headlines, but in this episode we dig into what is really going on. I am very pleased to introduce Adam Townsend, founder of Viewit DataLabs Limited. We talk about what the data really tells us, and from the data we can see that the NHS system is getting less efficient. This ‘ground truth’ enables us to think about what is really going on. It is not tha...

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24:58

Adding Value using Project, Programme and Portfolio...

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2024/04/30

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14:57

Cutting through complexity with human centric data

Evolving Enterprises: Stories of Growth Transformation ·

2024/04/23

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24:25

Encouraging and Empowering Change in times of Complexity

Evolving Enterprises: Stories of Growth Transformation ·

2024/04/16

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Getting public services back on track: Why do we so...

Evolving Enterprises: Stories of Growth Transformation ·

2024/04/09

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22:05

Using systems thinking to build an Auto Consultant:...

Evolving Enterprises: Stories of Growth Transformation ·

2024/03/19

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20:56

Using systems thinking: An outline

Evolving Enterprises: Stories of Growth Transformation ·

2024/03/14

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