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Does the choice of technology lead to project failure?

By on October 21, 2010 in BPM, Business, LEAN, Policies, Transformation

During my long and varied career I have been involved in a number of significant IT projects. As a software development manager for Prime Computer (remember them?) in the late 70’s and early 80’s I led large and varied teams focused on the next release of the Primos operating system. Later in my career, as [...]

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Learning from our Clients

By on October 19, 2010 in Business, Policies, Transformation

Last week my feet never touched the ground. Sunday night saw me in Manchester and Monday I visited a client in Speke, Liverpool. On Tuesday, after an early start (4am), I visited a new partner company in Budapest only to return to the UK that evening so that I could be at a client site [...]

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Why would I establish a Corporate Blog?

By on September 29, 2010 in Business, Policies

Penn Olson in their blog on Corporate Blogging Strategies describes four different reasons for creating a corporate blog: Build thought leadership; Becoming a trusted resource in a particular topic. Demonstrate corporate culture; To reflect an authentic corporate culture to help others understand the company better Connecting with leaders; To build better bonding through sharing. Branding; Establish or [...]

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Meeting Hell?

By on September 29, 2010 in Business, Collaboration, Policies

Is it possible to transform your meetings into productive, focused and energising collaboration sessions? I recently concluded that I, as I am sure most of you, have come to accept that meetings are unavoidable if I want to progress business issues to a successful conclusion.  My meetings are often, too long, painful and, simply put, [...]

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Afraid of having your laptop seized by US Customs and Immigration Officials?

By on September 18, 2008 in Business, Policies

I have to admit that I was completely unaware of the power that US Department of Homeland Security has to seize and search your laptop, mobile phone, or hard drive without reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing. Last April, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed that digital equipment passing into the US is legally the same [...]

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