A Stitch in Time: recovering distressed IT projects
What can you do to recover a broken IT relationship and recover an operational service?
Director of Oareborough Consulting
Digital Transformation and Disputes
What is digital transformation? Where do the risks lie that may result in disputes between customer and supplier?
Musings on what can be known, contracting, and consequences of the unknown.
Managing a legal dispute arising from a failed IT project: Part 2
In previous articles we looked at the common reasons why IT projects go wrong and the steps parties can take to manage a project which is slipping off track. In this two part article we consider the resolution of a dispute through legal proceedings. In part 1 we covered the fundamental issues of preparation, issuing…
Managing a legal dispute arising from a failed IT project: Part 1
we consider the resolution of a dispute through legal proceedings. In this part, we review the fundamental issues of preparation, issuing proceedings and evidence. Part II will look at settlement negotiations and the trial.
Investigating Artificial Intelligence: disputes, compliance and explainability
An AI system may need to be investigated as part of a dispute, for compliance or to aid explanation. This helps you define what should be investigated.
Maximising Success with AI
How you maximise your chances of success with AI
Managing failing IT and outsourcing projects
In a companion piece to their recent article on the reasons for IT project failure, Lee Gluyas and William Hooper review the steps that can be taken to protect a position where a project is failing but recovery is being attempted. IT projects can be lengthy and complex, especially where they are part of a…
Whose fault is it anyway? Why complex IT and outsourcing projects fail
Lee Gluyas and William Hooper review the common reasons for project failure and the steps which customers and suppliers (and those advising them) can take to minimise the risks. Complex IT and outsourcing projects are prone to delay. Some are abandoned in acrimony before completion. Whilst each failed project goes wrong for its own reasons,…
Corporate Resilience and Continuity
The onset of the virus caught most napping. Some organisations sprang into action and responded effectively. Others are still searching government web-pages in the hope they will tell them what to do. Many will go out of business. How can you use this crisis to best improve your own corporate resilience? In 2016, Tesco managers…
Intellectual Property – Hidden Treasure?
Why ignoring the matter of intellectual property may come back to bite you. Intellectual property can sound like an esoteric subject and one that mos people manage happily to ignore most of the time. But it has some big implications. In days of old, capital appeared to rule. Big companies owned big things and lots…
