Interim managers: the killer question

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An effective recruitment process for interim managers is very different – or should be.

And there is a ‘killer’ job interview question that can quickly sort the interim wheat from the chaff.

Economic downturns always promote the importance of interim management, as more organizations and individuals look to the interim READ MORE

Beware the perils of success

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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 READ MORE

More than one cloud in the sky

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Much is spoken and written about “Cloud computing” – all with grave authority, as if the term can yet be clearly defined.

As with meteorological clouds, logical clouds will take a variety of different shapes and properties.

So, until we develop a suitable taxonomy, ‘Cloud computing’ must remain nebulous (sic). Tweet READ MORE

Troughgate: caught out by information

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Information has played a vital role in the raging furore over MPs expenses.

The whole thing began a few years ago, with newspaper attempts to obtain details of expenses by using the Freedom of Information Act; an initiative that did not go down well with many of our elected representatives.

They [MPs] subsequently fought tooth and READ MORE

Twitter loses plot

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Twitter made an arbitrary technical change yesterday and at a stroke inadvertently broke their business value proposition.

I won’t bore you with the technical details but the change destroyed the future of the phenomenal network effect that has propelled millions of people to join Twitter.

The absolutely fundamental nature of Twitter has been the accelerated network READ MORE

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