How our HITMˣE® domain expertise helps organisations build the courage to shape their future.
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Humans In The Machine
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Despite 305 million new businesses launching worldwide each year, the gap with corporate giants is growing. The world needs more courage and we need a new philosophy for lasting change that embodies enthusiasm. -
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Minimum Lovable Products
DESIGN THINKING
"Fake it til you make it" and "Growth at all costs" have resulted in speed to market and MVPs that are often barely usable, unhelpful, and unbuyable. What are the design principles to create Minimum Lovable Products for a smart scale-up. -
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Complexification and leadership
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Leadership today isn’t stalling because of incompetence. We propose that progress is stalling due to complexity. Complexification and the status quo are inextricably linked. Yet most leadership development still trains for control, not coherence.
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![By 2035, only 44% of experts believe humans will retain meaningful control over tech-aided decision-making. We reject the dominant narrative of frictionless automation and invisible design. Instead, reframing AI as a visible partner.]()
The resourceful revolution
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
By 2035, only 44% of experts believe humans will retain meaningful control over tech-aided decision-making. We reject the dominant narrative of frictionless automation and invisible design. Instead, reframing AI as a visible partner in human evolution, a force that strengthens our collective ingenuity.
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![A worksheet titled 'It's time to find your transformative focus' with sections for identifying the WHO, WHAT, and WHY of a project, plus scoring and focus areas. The worksheet includes a sidebar with explanations of meaningful, transformative, and focus, along with six numbered questions about impact, understanding, emotional charge, credibility, and resources.]()
Meaningful Transformative Focus
VISIONING & PURPOSE
Our minds are overwhelmed by digital noise and contrived trends. Without clarity, ideas die young and enthusiasm falls to entropy. An MFT offers a simple frame to dial down noise, dial up empathy and to get fired up about causes you care about. -
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Treating the kinetic chain
ORGANISATIONAL HEALTH
HITMXE® approaches business behaviour far more like a human body than a machine. Equating complex systems to human systems makes them easier to relate to, and this is why we can work with individual founders as readily as Owners or Corporates.
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Enhancing divergent thinking
CREATIVE UPSKILLING
In communications, ideas are stubbornly stuck in ad formats and content supply, yet critical and divergent thinking can ignite creativity in all aspects of business and life. How to fall in love with a problem to form living business ideas. -
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Networked design strategy
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Organizations still struggle to advance digital transformation, despite the importance of the integrated network economy to growth. New target-states are needed for DT that strategically design a business to co-innovate, co-invest and collaborate. -
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Creating cultures of enthusiasm
ORGANISATION DESIGN
Today's entertainment is fixated by the dystopian. Unrealistic expectations of change distort perception to pessimism and fatalism. Yet a change of heart can change behavior and the world. More than anything, our expectations determine our reality. -
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Collaborative design is the future
SYSTEMS THINKING
CMOs are finding that cross-functional collaboration and centralization often yields worse revenue outcomes. Businesses need a new consensus between collaboration and independence; a playbook to create change from within.
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Oliver Spalding is a strategic leader with more than two decades of success in agency, consulting and corporate roles. Experience spanning creative, digital, customer experience and media means knowing first-hand what creates future potential for businesses.
He has delivered world-class work for key clients at Publicis Groupe and Digitas and regularly engages in keynote, panel and workshop discussions.
