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 [...]
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
