Life. Adventure. Consulting. Technology.
I write about the things I work on, think about and experience — from business and technology to adventure, wellbeing and life.
A little about me
I'm Chris Cooper — an independent consultant, technologist and lifelong problem solver. I've spent more than two decades helping organisations navigate change, improve performance and make better use of technology.
Outside work, I'm increasingly interested in adventure, fitness, wellbeing, personal challenges and the experiences that shape how we think and live.
What I write about
Four themes that between them cover most of what I care about — at work and away from it.
Personal reflections, family, wellbeing, fitness, lessons and experiences.
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Challenges, travel, cycling, exploration, events and experiences outside the everyday.
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Strategy, transformation, leadership, delivery and lessons from more than twenty years of...
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Digital transformation, AI, automation, systems, innovation and how technology changes org...
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Notes and essays on the things I work on, think about and experience.
A business case is argued hard, approved once, and never looked at again. The assumptions underneath it keep moving — and almost no organisation has a mechanism for asking whether the thing it funded two years ago is still worth finishing.
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For three years I have taken each of my children away separately, three to five days at a time, doing whatever that one actually loves. The first day is always ordinary. Something happens around the third that I have never managed to get any other way.
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Organisations have become far more selective about replacing legacy systems, because those systems hold the data and business rules that AI work needs. The platform you were going to retire is now called strategic, and nothing about it has improved.
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Most organisations centralise a function, undo it a few years later, and centralise it again after that. Each swing is argued well and costed carefully — and each one is judged on the half of the trade-off that happens to be countable.
Work with me
I work independently with organisations that need experienced support across strategy, transformation, technology and delivery.
Strategy
Operating models and executive advisory
Transformation
Programme design and assurance
Technology
Data, automation and AI
Delivery
Programme leadership and recovery
