Are your staff ‘protecting’ you?

by jed simms on October 12, 2011

There is a famous case in Australia where the Chairman of a large company rejected out-of-hand a takeover offer of $27 per share when those shares twelve months later were trading at under $10. This Chairman’s ‘protection’ of the company (…)

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Quality sliders

by jed simms on October 7, 2011

Many years ago I saw a specification for a “sub-second response time nationwide” for a notification of staff absence to HO transaction. This was a transaction where a three-minute response time could have been tolerable. The person specifying this performance (…)

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Sliding to disaster

by jed simms on August 18, 2011

A tool gaining popularity is Rob Thomsett’s sliders. The idea is simple: there are six sliders/options that measure project success with a scale of 1 (low) to 5 (high). At the outset of the project the business is asked to (…)

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The speed of change

by jed simms on August 11, 2011

There is a belief that business is changing so fast that you need to be extremely agile and responsive to cope. If you can’t respond you’ll miss the window of opportunity. Is this true? Yes and no. Yes – when (…)

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This is not a process

by jed simms on August 3, 2011

The technical architects appear to be taking over the world. Technical architecture diagrams are appearing all over the place as “Strategy on a page”, as operating models and, worse of all, as process charts. They are not process charts. Architecture (…)

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