Traditional Project Management is not enough
More that 30% of projects still fail according to a 2017 report by PMI: “Pulse of the Profession”. While some of the statistics show a slight improvement in recent years, few...
Book Review – The Pacesetters
The Pacesetters is a not a standard business book. It is part of a marketing initiative jointly authored by Doug LaBahn PhD and Josh Drummond. That is not to say its...
Apple becomes first publicly traded US firm to be valued at $1 trillion dollars
Over the years I have watched Apple reinvent itself to become the company it is today – a machine that removes money from consumers at a quite staggering rate of knots.
If...
Is your business ready for investment?
Many businesses need investment for several reasons. They may need it to develop their product or launch this into the market place. Alternatively it's required later for expansion or entering a...
Book review: This is Service Design Doing
This is Service Design Doing was written as a collaborative book. Its four primary authors Marc Stickdorn, Adam Lawrence, Marckus Hormess and Jakob Schneider are recognised experts in the field. Other...
Mind the cyber risk gap
As the number of digital transactions dramatically increases, so does the risk and likelihood of cyber-attack. This means that organisations handling large amounts of sensitive data are more likely to become...
Blockchain and crypto currencies – what world problems do they actually solve?
There is a seemingly endless round of global conferences focused on blockchain as the solution to everything. Many of these conferences seem to be little more than a thinly disguised attempt...
Why you have to treat all your customers equally under GDPR
GDPR has been here for a month. Since it came into force in May 2018, GDPR’s rules on data privacy and security should have become “business as usual” for all organisations...
Ambiguity is the killer of smart contracts
As a new field, we are only beginning to figure out how to design smart contracts. Should we harness the underlying technology properly; it has the potential to become both an...
8 steps for a pain-free cloud migration
Cloud adoption by UK companies is nearing 90%, according to Cloud Industry Forum. It won’t be long before all organisations are benefiting to some degree from the flexibility, efficiency and cost-savings...