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From a distance, former BBC HR boss Lucy Adams takes a swipe at organisational transformation within personnel teams, in a blog entited "HR Transformations don't transform HR". Wonder if she knows any big public sector teams that have embarked on this route ?

These Transformation programmes are based on an outdated construct of how work is done. As part of the project plan, we spend ages giving people the right job title, working out who they report to, what level they are at and therefore what permissions they should have. But what about the people who work for us who aren’t actually employed by us? As Kennedy Fitch writes, we are witnessing “an explosive growth of the ‘off-payroll’ employee … and in less than a decade we can expect to have more than 50% no longer on our payroll”. 

Perhaps even more worryingly, for an effort that is all about making us work more productively – the actual work of organisations isn’t delivered through this neat organisational structure that we have so carefully populated. As Marcus Buckingham writes, “work gets done by agile, dynamic teams that are constantly changing”. Most new systems can’t cope with that.