gimmicks will always get you in the end

managing by gimmick

So Lehman Brothers are accused of managing by gimmicks, specifically – according to the BBC – an accounting “gimmick” known as Repo 105. “This is a legal accounting device that involves shifting around assets to reduce the size of a company’s balance sheet.”

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Apparently they got away with this gimmick for many [...]

how to evaluate IT business cases

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The credit crunch is making it harder to get funds for technology investments so here is my own IT business case evaluation tool to help you make sure that your business case really has strong enough legs to stand up, before you pitch.

As an interim director I have had to [...]

Business agility, it's all in the mind

Agility is one of the great buzzwords of the day so I paused for thought when I saw this tweet from @flowchainsensei (aka Bob Marshall)  ”What is *Business Agility*? It’s ability to respond to changes in your business environment: markets, competitors, regulators, tech, etc.”

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Well that doesn’t sound like agility to me. Bob’s [...]

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