Chief Executives should ask their CIOs a very important question: do you honestly know where our data is tonight?
Right now there are masses of very valuable and highly sensitive corporate data being carried around on lightweight USB memory sticks, much of it stored without any official sanction or knowledge.
The USB sticks may be small but it [...]
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 market for quick fixes.
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 and [...]
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 nail [...]
The blazing row about MPs expenses is an unsavoury and dismal situation, for sure – but there are important Systems lessons to be drawn from the debacle.
In the UK a stream of embarrassing revelations about highly questionable expenses claims has meant that Members of Parliament have spent the week universally condemning ‘the [MPs expenses] system’ [...]
The credit crunch is likely to bring an upsurge in vendors seeking to maintain revenue streams by squeezing their installed userbase even harder.
Previous downturns have been seen as an opportunity for bringing forward so-called ’sunset’ dates for older products, with the intention of jolting users into upgrading to newer versions, usually at a cost.
The direct [...]
These days it is so easy to quickly e-mail a difficult task to somebody else, either to share the problem or to shed it completely, rather than dealing with it ourselves.
Have you ever thought how many times a day you play Reverse Pass the parcel?
I’ll bet that it’s at least once an hour, or maybe more [...]
We need to make sure that the principle of “give and take” is not always demonstrated by the employee giving and the management taking.
If you’ve ever seriously considered dropping out from the rough and tumble of the corporate world, you might have looked at buying an established small business such as a pub or a [...]
I believe that the global financial crisis is getting too much attention, while the principal [but underlying and understated] cause: the crisis of integrity, is completely ignored.
Collectively and individually the direct and indirect perpetrators of our current financial problems were clearly guilty of totally abrogating their integrity in favour of greed and wilful ignorance.
