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Is your precious data running wild?

Chief Executives should ask their CIOs a very important question: do you honestly know where our data is tonight? READ MORE

Taboo Zoo

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Why should so many business risks be kept off the record, because they are taboo subjects? We need to make sure that we are not acting as unofficial keepers of the taboo zoo.

Every organization has corporate taboos, difficult conversations that are avoided – either until a crisis finally flushes the subject out into the open, or READ MORE

Genuine runaway successes may be few and far between in the world of business change. But when they do happen they can sometimes cause far more damage than outright failure so beware the perils of success!

What are the dangers of success? This is a vital question that goes unasked too often by those planning projects and READ MORE

If there isn't an R in the month, check your project plans

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How often are we surprised when a task, or entire project, slips unexpectedly because key staff have outrageously taken a holiday, at a critical point in the project schedule?

Juggling with fire

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I wrote last week about the hidden risks of downsizing and Ade McCormack has just blogged about the likely impact of enforced budget constraints on CIOs and how the strain that this puts the IT function under is likely to lead to the ‘ball being dropped’.

I agree wholeheartedly with Ade that dropping the ball is a very likely outcome READ MORE