Time to change our habits! ESG and organisational change, more than measurement.
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Sustainable businesses should be outcome-driven, thinking and acting in a long-term manner. This means changing business habits.


Case Study: building a coherent consulting team
How do you go about reconstructing a consulting team once the market shifts and the team loses coherence? That was the challenge I took...


Strategy isn't about growth
Why is it important for businesses to grow? How frequently have you found yourself in a strategy discussion where the fundamental premise...


Case Study: brokering a new way of working
Case Study: brokering new ways of working and approaches to effective stakeholder management


ESG - moving beyond targets to organisational transformation
ESG has generated increasing interest in the last five years focused on measurement. More attention is required on the organisational change


10 Lessons from a University of Bath MBA
10 lessons on business management from a University of Bath MBA


Reimagining technical assistance: will Covid-19 change delivery?
The final blog in our series on technical assistance explores the effect of the pandemic on the pace of change in the sector. Will...


Reimagining technical assistance: from capacity substitution to capacity development
How to move the discussion on technical assistance away from something provided by ‘development’ organisations, and towards technical...


Reimagining technical assistance: what role should technical advisers have in supporting government
Exploring the different roles of technical advisors in supporting governments – and the challenges in shifting towards a facilitator...


Governance in a joined-up world?
Ben French sets out three opportunities for the way the merger of the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office and the Department for...


Navigating new dynamics
Sandra Naranjo and Ben French discuss the changing dynamics between donors and recipient national governments Disparities between...


A little listening goes a long way
Exploring the importance of interpersonal skills in international development All governments are changing, all the time. They change to...


Reimagining technical assistance: the people we need
Technical advisors play one of three roles when supporting governments; doers, partners or facilitators. Each of these roles requires a...


How to navigate the complex field of change
The process of change is more art than science "It's intuition…" Those, at least, were the words of my matrix algebra professor....
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