Top of the National Audit Office/Office of Government Commerce publication “List of Common Causes of Project Failure” is:
Lack of clear link between the project and the organisation’s key strategic priorities, including agreed measures of success.
In 2006, we conducted a study using Freedom Of Information (FOI) requests [...]
If you want to avoid wasted time, effort, and cost acquiring information to support decision making:
Identify what decision are you trying to support. Define what you are attempting to measure in observable consequences. Work out exactly how this thing being measured impacts on the decision. Identify what you already know now, with [...]
Not normally news I would share on a web post, but this is no ordinary plug. Some of you may have seen news articles in the last couple of days about the amazing and very welcome Mu plug. Today mine arrived so I though I would share my initial impressions.
Product designer and illustrator Min-Kyu [...]
This Forbes article on the World’s Most Surprising School System started a thought on some current management practices. We see a lot of formal emphasis within current IT management around accountability, however trust is rarely mentioned. Within the UK military environment, trust is such an important factor that is formally defined in
How government could use social media to improve its response to public crises
Over the last couple of months I have been watching with interest how social media has been used during a number of crisis events and how governments have reacted to and made use of these technologies. It has been an instructive period [...]
