CIOs and IT GMs often talk about cultural change and change management in general like it’s a “destination”… “we're doing a culture change project this year”. I reckon cultural change is better regarded as a consequence of laser focus on your business model, not a destination or a “project”. In a recent conversation with…
The point is, if you had to refine organisational change down to three elements - and that’s difficult - the three legs of the stool I choose are: Clarity of vision, Teams working well together, and Sophisticated leadership. There are a whole lot of things that make an organisation work, but if you can improve…
What’s sensitive about your project? Educating the Business in methodologies. So you've confirmed that a project is strategic for the organisation, you have the capacity to address it, and now it’s development time. As we know there are only three variables we can control when we run a project: Time – duration of the project;…
In the previous post I discussed how it’s difficult to manage project demand in a controlled way… or put another way, how do we explain project selection governance to business stakeholders? There are all sorts of formal and informal methods to help business stakeholders understand why their pet project is actually a waste of time…
Does your development organisation have huge backlogs? Are some of your current projects overdue, under stress or just irrelevant now? Or do you spend hours in back-to-back meetings defending your teams because they’re overloaded and the other GMs expect miracles from them? Many of the organisations I talk to struggle with these sort of problems…
Most consultants are afraid of the "S" word - selling. But selling is not SELLING. Salespeople generally get a bad rap... have a look at the Roy Morgan Image of Professions Survey 2017... at the bottom down there with estate agents and talk-back radio announcers! And in one of my workshops on "selling for consultants"…
Congratulations: you're a Practice Lead or a Practice Manager. You are responsible for leading a number of consultants on site. You're probably still in the field, so your role is still referred to as field leadership. You're what Shane Anastasi¹ calls a player-coach. You're worked to the bone, having to cover your own role (maybe…
When people with diverse backgrounds and from differing organisations work together, magic happens. In my role as Gartner Executive Partner, I was recently a member of an expert committee advising the Victorian government on its security strategy. The Victorian government had had difficulty grappling with Cyber Security - over many years it became politicised and…
Fuckup Nights (fuckupnights.com) is a global movement born in Mexico in 2012 to publicly share business failure stories. Hundreds of people attend each event to hear three to four entrepreneurs share their failures. Each speaker is given 7 minutes and is able to use 10 images. After each speaker, there’s a question/answer session, as well as…
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act". This quote has been attributed to George Orwell, the English novelist and opponent of totalitarianism. With everything from "fake news" to rampant leaks in politics, it seems we live in a time of universal deceit... maybe not exactly what George was referring…
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