We are tremendously excited about launching element8 and by our ability to add business-critical value to the challenges of transformation. Too many transformation programmes choke as they try to engage and sustain the whole organisation in business change: logistics and collaboration are just too manual, everything is too fragile when the memory of programme workshops and coaching fade away! Element8, oxygen in the periodic table, is vital for life and growth, and a technology-enabled toolkit is vital for today’s transformation programmes. Organisation-wide engagement is where 80% of the value lies, and making this a reality has inspired and shaped element8’s vision and roadmap over the past five years.
It’s not often you get the chance to write about such a transition. Having led a consulting practice for the past 17 years, and then evolved element8 over the past three years into a full-blown software business (often via Andrew Loveless and I scribbling plans on the back of ecologically friendly serviettes in London’s Planet Organic café), it’s been, and continues to be, an incredible journey!
Some of the milestones for element8 and our transformation platform, xpoint™ were:
STMicroelectronics, 2005 - working with technology leaders across Europe
- xpoint™ concept born whilst working with Phil Morris and Steve Jones to initiate and develop a Twiki as a collaborative leadership environment
Johnson Controls and Barclays, 2007 – supporting a business turn-around
- xpoint™ beta delivered for Jane Skelton, Amanda Leonard and Priya Patalia to provide a collaborative transformation infrastructure for very dispersed teams
- excitement of seeing this come alive, millions of pounds of value being delivered, and ‘backwater’ operations becoming star performers
RBS, 2008 – supporting an innovation culture change programme
- xpoint™ v2.0, working again with Amanda Leonard, Priya Patalia and Saj Butt to provide a collaborative innovation infrastructure within RBS
- broadening the deployment in early 2009 to support two additional strategies, cost reduction and environmental impact, and again helping to deliver million pound impact
Summer 2008 – strategic decision to build the platform on SharePoint technology
- leveraging the scalability, security models, and expansibility of core functionality
Summer 2009 – development team relocates to new offices in Bangalore
- Continued evolution of a stunning product by a newly formed, hugely talented development team
Q1 2010 – release of xpoint v3.0 platform and launch of element8
Over the past five years we have built a team that is incredibly talented. We continue to grow this team and use our own tools to deliver new capability, despite being a totally dispersed team.
Thank you for visiting the site, I hope it has some resonance with your experience.