The science of making decisions without numbers

How CFOs use organisational sensemaking™

Blog

Decision making for CFOs
April 21, 2023

The science of decision making without numbers

iFD, a division of the Isosceles Finance Group, recently asked us to address an audience of CFOs. This is a group who largely rely on numerical data when it comes to decision making and this event was designed to introduce them to Organisational Sensemaking™. The session sparked a lot of discussion and interest from the […]

The challenge of policing
April 1, 2023

The challenge for reform in policing

In an article in The Times, Sir Mark Rowley was attributed with saying that he needed to [effectively] take a head-on approach to the reform and organisational change of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). No mean feat, given the size of the organisation (c. 45,000 people) and the scope; everything from dealing with long-term sickness, […]

creativity
March 2, 2023

The creativity argument

There is an argument voiced numerous times by prominent people, some notable, some notorious, that creativity and productivity are impacted when workers work at home alone rather than together in an office environment. I have heard the same argument from a close colleague, for whom I have the deepest respect, even though two of the […]

Red Arrows
August 20, 2020

The Red Arrows cannot fly away from uncomfortable truths

This article is a refreshingly honest account of how intuitive sensemaking drives our emotional response to our environment.