Jingle bells, Jingle all the way, Oh what fun it is to route Santa's ERP-driven sleigh!

TroubleShooter Case Study - Santa goes online

colin wearing santa hat

Troubleshooting assignments are quite often fairly hush-hush but there are some that I don’t talk about because nobody would believe me if I did. For example, Santa’s ERP implementation.

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Take me to your thought-leader

take me to your leader by kimb0lene on flickr

Where do you look for thought-leadership? Books, magazines, blogs or social media?

Who do you follow, or endorse? And how do you value and measure management gurus and practitioners, by their reputation, experience or vision?

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the impact of technology on working practice

three years on the helter skelter

cleethorpes helter skelter by cubwolf on flickr

Progress on the web has been running at break-neck speed for so long that we have become accustomed to the helter-skelter pace of development and we rarely get the time to look back and reflect on our journey, from where we were to where we are.

Nevertheless, I was recently asked by Brinley Platts to answer an interesting question: How Continue reading article »

change has always been hard

machiavelli by giu90hs on flickr

For those of us who would like things to be different, perhaps we should pay less attention to methodologies, such as PRINCE and PRINCE2, and pay more attention to the author of The Prince. Continue reading article »

an effective personal productivity toolkit

BadCo toolbox

How do we pick the right mix of so-called personal productivity tools, when every day brings a fresh new flood of ‘apps’ to an already crowded market?

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