Here is some advice for budding Thought Leaders: you will probably get more response to your pearls of wisdom if you are two steps behind your audience, rather than two steps ahead of them. Continue reading article »
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Being irrelevant is not an effective strategy. But sustaining our relevance in a changing world requires that we also change regularly, by adapting to new circumstances and situations. Continue reading article » gimmicks will always get you in the end
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.” Picture credit: Okinawa Soba Apparently they got away with this gimmick for many years,  Picture credit: mint imperial 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 review hundreds of business cases, often under serious time pressure and financial constraints, which led me to create a simple business case evaluation tool that has helped me greatly over the years and I think that you will find it useful. Here are the ten business case criteria that I use to evaluate an IT business case: 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.” Picture credit: chris5aw Well that doesn’t sound like agility to me. Bob’s definition |
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