After the publication of the Invincible Company in April 2020, I shifted my focus back to advisory work and helping leaders take a wider, more systemic approach to developing an innovation capability within their company. Building on the Innovation Ecosystem framework and my 20+ year experience, I help leadership teams to clarify their innovation strategy, to honestly assess their organisation’s current capability and to design the required interventions to improve their innovation ecosystem over time.

In 2020 I synthesised the key learnings from The Invincible Company and from collaborations with innovation thought leaders such as Greg Bernarda, Tendayi Vicki and Alex Osterwalder into a program specifically designed to help senior leaders in large organisations adjust their leadership to drive better outcomes with corporate innovation.

In 2019 I co-created with Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur a tool to help leaders assess the risk of disruption of their business(es). This is a key element of the new toolkit we introduce in The Invincible Company.

Assessing the risk of disruption of a business model is critically important because it enables you to take the required actions and avoid future crises. And when crises cannot be avoided, like today’s Covid-19 crisis, at least you can enter them better prepared.

In Q3 2016, Gy Wallace and I started to work together on the strategy for the In-Home Care business at IRT. Gy had just been appointed CEO of IRT’s In-Home Care business and felt the business was missing the required clarity, sense of purpose and focus that a strategy could bring. In some ways, his business was keeping its head in the sand, not ready for the next curve balls thrown out by our VUCA world. Gy was ready to try something new. Together we designed a 9-week Strategy Sprint to address challenges of the future, and be prescriptive on immediate actions.

In Australia, the Aged Care sector is ongoing massive change triggered by legislative and regulatory changes, by a shift in customer behaviours and, like so many other sectors, by technology (robotics, wearables, etc.)

At the end of 2014 I took a client engagement to design and lead the In-Home Care (IHC) business transformation of IRT, an Aged Care provider in Australia.