Business users and IT (and other services) departments love to be rude about each other. Mutual incomprehension and worse frequently reign. What can you do to establish and maintain a healthy relationship and the high quality of service alignment? The gap between Business and IT has long been deep. IT people too often have little…
CEOs have long seen the potential for technical innovation to steal a march on their competition. Some like Google and Amazon have consummately reinvented their industries this way. Achieving the goal is however desperately difficult. What could you do to define the vision, business model and deliver appropriate technology to support them? The Prize Strategists…
The reason for making any change is that there is an expectation that the new state will be sufficiently better than the current to justify the effort of undergoing the change. How can a business case be supported by the reliable management of benefits to capture more of the expected return? Art enlivens the soul.…
Projects have been running over-budget and late since the Pharaohs built their tombs. Since then, good practice has been published and qualifications have been established, so why do projects and programmes still go wrong? Whilst most projects slightly over-run, a significant minority goes catastrophically bad, even sinking their host companies. What can you do to…
Every sponsor with whom I have ever worked has wanted quick wins in the bag. This is not just impatience, although there is normally a good dose of that. A sponsor must have put their own credibility on the line in making the case for change, and needs to hold the leading coalition together, sometimes…
