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Culture and Strategy – Avoiding the Collision

Culture and Strategy – Avoiding the Collision

By on April 26, 2011 in Business, Leadership, Transformation

I have just finished reading John Boyle and Kevin Klustner’s FC Expert blog piece entitled Collective Leadership Drives Sustainable Growth. The article talks to the point that it is no longer simply about making the right decision. More often, it is about understanding the trade-offs and ensuring decisions are made broadly across the company in [...]

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Learning from experience? Things I would do differently?

Learning from experience? Things I would do differently?

By on March 31, 2011 in Business, Collaboration, Transformation

I have just read the latest blog post from @LisaPetrilli entitled “The Number One Thing CEOs Wish They’d Done Differently. “ I totally agree — in several previous roles I wish I had put talent first. Hopefully I have learnt from my previous mistakes! My business is currently in transition. We are moving from being [...]

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What are your core values?

By on March 22, 2011 in Business, Policies, Transformation

Today I initiated a conversation with my senior team. I said that I felt we needed to have a clearer, more concise vision for the company. Having recently read Jim Collins and Jerry Porras’ Harvard Business Review paper entitled “Building Your Company’s Vision” it reminded me that too often a company’s vision statement is diluted [...]

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The Challenges of Transitioning from Start-Up to Grown-Up

By on March 15, 2011 in BPM, Business, Transformation

Those of us that have experienced the full spectrum of company type; from Early-Stage to SME, to Mid-Market and on up to the Global Enterprise will realise that there are three distinct phases that companies pass through. Initially, the focus is on figuring out what we are going to sell and to whom? Once this [...]

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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 do we waste time and money attending meetings and getting the basics wrong?

By on October 6, 2010 in Business, Collaboration, Transformation

Johnnie Moore in his latest weblog discusses Conference ruts. He begins by quoting Harold Jarche who makes a number of interesting comments on the frustrations we all encounter when we attend conferences. Significance is given to the issue of problems being presented in a plenary session and then immediately being asked to comment and brainstorm [...]

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What would the impact of an office flood be on your business?

By on October 5, 2010 in Business, Cloud Computing, SalesForce, Virtualisation

Yesterday one of the Axispoint team noticed that the floor was a bit soggy and on the move! Luckily we are based in an MWB Serviced office. A call to Sara, the centre manager and the floor tiles were lifted. You can imagine the horror when we found about 4 inches of water in the [...]

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What are the roadblocks of change?

By on March 9, 2009 in Business, Publications, Transformation

John P. Kotter, in his latest book  A Sense of Urgency [Harvard Business Press, 2008] cites two reasons why, by his calculation, 70% of Business change either fails to deliver or is never instigated in the first place. These two reasons are complacency and false urgency. He believes that complacent people do not realise they [...]

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It is time to play the long game!

By on February 10, 2009 in Business, Transformation

We seem to be in a downward spiral. I hear people all around me firmly focused on short-term recessionary issues. How often have you heard a conversation that starts “I’ve never known it so tough. I have had to cut my cost base by 40%, lay 25% of my staff off and my pipeline has [...]

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