Ken Thompson
Ken Thompson
Ken Thompson specialises in four key business areas: 1. Creating High Performing Teams in enterprises including Virtual and Mobile Teams, 2. Establishing effective Collaborative Business Networks, 3. Development of graphical on-line interactive Business Dashboards and 4. What-if Simulators for organisations to support Performance Improvement, Strategy Development and Executive Team Development.
High performance leadership/decisions: business game findings
Over the part few years I have been running in-house business games with a number of major enterprises who form executive teams for a...
The 10 Key Principles of Change Management
Over the last 6 months I have been designing, testing and piloting an exciting new Change Management Game for leaders and teams which lets...
The 5 Myths of business: How they invisibly drive our thinking
Strategy and Business Magazine has just published an excellent in-depth article "The Dueling Myths of Business" based on the work of scenario planning expert...
Convert excel spreadsheets into online simulations and dashboards
There are two neat tools you can use to quickly turn excel spreadsheets into online simulations, what-if models and dashboards. They are Simulate from...
From a systems perspective the UK Public Sector is totally broken!
John Seddon, in his ground breaking book Systems Thinking in the Public Sector, provides a harrowing view of the "value destroying and non-customer centric...
How to assess Power and Influence: a simple but effective method
When we are dealing with change we need to be able to make quick but robust assessments of the power/influence of the different players....
Behavioural game design: A Review of popular Gamification Techniques
Gamification, the use of game play mechanics for non-game applications, is a very topical area with many enterprises exploring how they might use it...
A practical framework for change – head, hearts, hands & feet
The late Stephen Covey always reminded us that "the main thing was to keep the main thing the main thing !" However when you...
Persona Management Software destroys internet authenticity
The Guardian reports on the growth in "Persona Management Software" which individuals use to engage in web conversations using multiple identities on forums and...
Why you should apply Living Systems Theory to Social Network Design
With the explosion in social software and the recognition that these types of systems need to reach critical mass to survive and prosper it...
The secret to building simple verifiable business models
Many business models used by enterprises have never been calibrated using the organisation's own historical data which seriously undermines their usefulness. This is generally...
New Research on Hard Benefits of Online Customer Communities
According to a 2011 survey, almost 50% of the top 100 global brands host some kind of network or community but are there any...
Trello – Simple Collaboration with Cards and free
I have been invited to participate in a software beta test which is using an online tool called Trello to coordinate test feedback. Trello...
Rules and warnings for building successful online communities
Most online communities are simply online ghost towns. People register, get their login details, visit once, decide its not for them and never return....
RepKnight creating a storm in social media monitoring
RepKnight is an exciting Belfast-based software start-up in the reputation monitoring, crowd-sourced news and public opinion space. Even though they have only been going...
Data mining made easy with DMF
Data Mining, a hi-tech buzzword for many years, is about excavating useful patterns which are hidden deep in your data to give you valuable...
Building an Integrated Social Media Dashboard
I have been looking for way to monitor and track all my websites/blogs plus all my social media accounts (linkedIN, Twitter etc) from a...
Data visualisation – which diagram should I use?
Here is an excellent web link plus two great books which address the question which diagram or chart should I use to effectively present...
Instant Customer Data Analysis using Excel: worked example
One of the most useful aspects of Microsoft Excel is its ability to quickly slice and dice customer data from live systems to identify...
The River Diagram: Strategic community change management
I am always on the lookout for good simple visualisation techniques to support change management. Chris Collison has introduced me to The River Diagram...