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Trillion Dollar Bonfire ‘live in London’

Westminster Business School, London 10th June 2009. Limited places available. Event organised by the Sociotechnical group of the British Computer Society.
Colin Beveridge will set out a credible, compelling vision for a new, post-IT, paradigm that is within the embrace of all stakeholders. This is thought-leadership at the leading edge and your opportunity to challenge the views put forward.
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Hunting goodwill

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 [...]

The eye in your mud, or the mud in your eye?

Can we really trust spreadsheet numbers? Are spreadsheet-based reports the eye in your mud, or the mud in your eye? Do the numbers really help you to make sense of a complex situation, or do they cloud the issues by muddying the waters even more?

Clear the decks (into Room 101)

People are talking about a new world order emerging from the present financial chaos. But if we are going to build a new business world order, we will have to have to make some room by clearing out the old corporate clutter.
I realise that one man’s junk is another’s treasure but some of our behaviour [...]

Credit crunch is a sideshow

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.

Ghosts in the machine

Fall off in business levels, may be due to the financial recession but we must also recognise that reduced personal productivity, due to worry, is now a major risk to organizational performance.
These are turbulent times and many people are uncertain of their future employment. This will mean that their minds are increasingly on the job, but mostly [...]

Who wants the keys to the kingdom?

Tired of being seen as a bit-player in the business? Colin Beveridge says careful rebranding could take IT departments a lot closer to the seat of power. There is a sting in the tail of this powerful piece.

Fighting the Trillion Dollar Bonfire

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