Change at the Speed of Light

There is a general belief that getting people to change their behaviour is difficult and takes a long time. I can understand this belief when there are so many examples of this being the case. Yet I am aware that we like to defend our beliefs and look for evidence to support them. We know that whatever we believe we will seek to make true. TV debating programmes are based upon this principle and it’s what causes so many arguments between people and groups. So what stops people from changing quickly and easily? Is it their deep in-grained habits, or their beliefs? Or perhaps a mix of the two?

Your Propensity to Change - How Far Would You Go?

It is easy to dream about an exotic island. It takes a bit more to prepare a trip to this island and spend some time there. But the real challenge is to take your stuff and migrate to this little island. Knowing your propensity to change is knowing - in advance - how far you would go.

Cash is Oxygen During the Restructuring Process

Revenue is vanity, profit is reality and cash is certainty. In medical analogy, revenue is the food, profit is the water and cash is the oxygen. You cannot pay rent with profit, you can only pay your rent with hard cash. Cash talks, the rest walks.

Sustaining Improvement: Is It a Pipe Dream?

This short think piece, which has been co-authored by Mark Eaton and Simon Phillips, aims to help readers start to think more broadly about the improvement programmes that they are planning (or implementing) to transition or transform their organisation.

Are You Still Doing it All Yourself

Delegating is necessary to empower effective teams. Good sports coaches delegate each position to players on the field. Business leaders should do the same.

There Is A Time To Be Born And A Time To Die - Correct Timing Is Everything

There is a time to be born and a time to die. Correct timing is everything The right timing is absolutely important. There is an old Chinese saying that for a business to flourish, you need to have the correct timing.

How to Avoid Implementation Failure

Failure to implement the recommendations of an investigation into what ails an organisation is a norm for most organisations. For some organisations it is a serial norm.

20th Century Business Methods are the Problem Not the Solution

The conventional management and business improvement method is to improve existing conventional methods. The only way to solve the problems into replace obsolete conventional methods with one 21st century method Result-performance Management (R-pM)

Case Study: High Aspirations Key to High Performance Technologies' Success

The Virginia-based IT provider faced one of the toughest challenges a small organization can face: the death of its leader. Read how the firm, which lost two other employees at the same time, rebounded in the face of adversity and strengthened its work culture.

How To Implement an IT Asset Management System

As a matter of fact IT asset management is extremely important if you want minimized risks. However, until recently organizations tend to put it off because it actually looks like a lot of trouble, Is that right?

Stakeholder Analysis - Management and Engagement

If we are involved in managing change, we will come across the terms Stakeholder Analysis, Stakeholder Management and Stakeholder Engagement. So what is the difference between these three concepts?

Project Management Software

Project management software offers significant benefits for all those involved within the project as it helps to enhance performance, productivity and priorities of a diverse project portfolio. It serves as the lubricant to adapt project tactics to project practices.

Understanding Change Through a Simulation

Understanding and implementing change in an organization is full of obstacles and hazards. Learning about these in a traditional classroom setting requires the leaners to sit through materials often unrelated to their needs and creates further confusion and ambiquity. Learning about change through an experience can guarantee that the learning will be deeper and last longer . . . and can even be fun.

Introduction to Project Managment

It is common for organisations to undertake projects, however most do not employ full time Project Managers and it is common to pull together a project team to address a specific need. While most people are not formally skilled in project methodology, taking a role in a project team can be an excellent learning opportunity and also enhance a person’s career profile. To that end, this article aims to give an understanding of project management methodology and how it underpins most formally run projects.