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This website is built around the Lab, which lays out Ade McCormack's evolving perspectives on how organisations need to evolve to embrace increasing disruption. It is structured to represent a journey from the challenges organisations face to the most critical outcomes they need to achieve:

Challenges - The challenges associated with an increasingly disrupted world
Lenses - The traditional ways of studying organisations
Principles - An alternative approach more suited to increasing disruption
Outcomes - The outcomes needed to ensure your organisation not only survives, but thrives and matters.

Within the Lab you will find hundreds of essays, explainers, provocations and definitions that will enable you and your leadership team to understand the extent to which your organisation needs to adapt to an unknowable future.

You will also find the following pages:

About - An overview of Ade
Glossary - A collection of terms associated with intelligent organisations
Executive engagement - Different ways of engaging Ade.
Keynoting - Overview of Ade's keynoting capability.
Advisory - Overview of Ade's advisory capability.
Contact - Message Ade.

How to navigate the Lab

This website explores how organisations can remain effective, adaptive and relevant in an increasingly uncertain world.

The journey begins with the challenges facing today's executives. It then examines those challenges through a range of organisational lenses, including leadership, AI, people, organisational design and disruption. This takes you to the principles that underpin the thesis of the Intelligent Organisation. Finally, this leads you to the outcomes that make the case for the Intelligent Organisation.

Of course, your first visit to this site may be via a link to a specific article. You might arrive at a challenge, an organisational lens or a principle. The signposting at the top of each page is designed to help you understand where you are within the overall journey and to make it easy to move backwards and forwards through the journey.

The signposting follows a simple structure:

Challenges → Lenses → Principles → Outcomes

In the example above, the signposting indicates that you are currently in the Lenses section.

This is a new website and a work in progress. Constructive feedback on navigation, content and the overall experience is always welcome.