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Public Lecture - Building Adaptive Organisations for the AI Age
The LSE Department of Management was delighted to welcome Amazon Web Services Executive in Residence, Phil Le-Brun, to uncover how becoming an Octopus Organization can unlock agility and real transformation.
Organisations today face a paradox: we strive for agility and innovation yet remain trapped in rigid systems designed for control and efficiency. Massive top-down transformations often make things worse. Is there a better way?
Phil introduced The Octopus Organization, a bold new approach inspired by one of nature’s most adaptable creatures. Like an octopus – intelligent, resilient, and decentralised – organisations can thrive by balancing cohesion with autonomy and tapping into the distributed intelligence of their people.
Drawing on experience with global companies and sharing 36 common “antipatterns” that hold us back, he revealed practical levers for meaningful change. Discover how to move beyond bureaucracy and nurture a living, learning system built for continuous transformation.
Phil Le-Brun is an executive in residence at Amazon Web Services and a former corporate VP and international CIO at McDonald’s Corporation. At McDonald’s he co-led the consolidation and modernisation of technology across thirty-eight thousand restaurants globally. In his current role, Phil engages with Fortune 500 executives and their teams and with public-sector customers to mentor, advise, and guide them on their journeys to become more adaptable organisations. He is a sought-after speaker and has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal and the Guardian.
Dr Will Venters, an Associate Professor of Digital Innovation and Information Systems within the Department of Management at LSE, chaired the event. His research focuses on the distributed development of digital ecosystems. His recent research has focused on cloud computing, AI, the API Economy, and Agile Development. He has researched the organisation of distributed work and systems in various organisations including government-related organisations, the construction industry, telecoms, financial services, health, and even particle physicists at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
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By LSE Department of ManagementThe LSE Department of Management was delighted to welcome Amazon Web Services Executive in Residence, Phil Le-Brun, to uncover how becoming an Octopus Organization can unlock agility and real transformation.
Organisations today face a paradox: we strive for agility and innovation yet remain trapped in rigid systems designed for control and efficiency. Massive top-down transformations often make things worse. Is there a better way?
Phil introduced The Octopus Organization, a bold new approach inspired by one of nature’s most adaptable creatures. Like an octopus – intelligent, resilient, and decentralised – organisations can thrive by balancing cohesion with autonomy and tapping into the distributed intelligence of their people.
Drawing on experience with global companies and sharing 36 common “antipatterns” that hold us back, he revealed practical levers for meaningful change. Discover how to move beyond bureaucracy and nurture a living, learning system built for continuous transformation.
Phil Le-Brun is an executive in residence at Amazon Web Services and a former corporate VP and international CIO at McDonald’s Corporation. At McDonald’s he co-led the consolidation and modernisation of technology across thirty-eight thousand restaurants globally. In his current role, Phil engages with Fortune 500 executives and their teams and with public-sector customers to mentor, advise, and guide them on their journeys to become more adaptable organisations. He is a sought-after speaker and has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal and the Guardian.
Dr Will Venters, an Associate Professor of Digital Innovation and Information Systems within the Department of Management at LSE, chaired the event. His research focuses on the distributed development of digital ecosystems. His recent research has focused on cloud computing, AI, the API Economy, and Agile Development. He has researched the organisation of distributed work and systems in various organisations including government-related organisations, the construction industry, telecoms, financial services, health, and even particle physicists at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.