David Trafford and Peter Boggis argue that one of the reasons for the poor success rate in delivering change is that leaders focus on the wrong future: the one they hope to get rather than the one they’re likely to …
David Trafford explores why strategy implementation, transformational change and merger integration continues to be a challenge for many organisations, with a high proportion of these initiatives failing to deliver their intended outcomes. One explanation explored in this article is that …
Peter Boggis argues that technology, particularly information technology, is a major factor determining an organisation’s default future, and one that needs to be fully understood by business and technology executives if they are to make informed choices on how …
David Trafford argues that individuals, families, organisations and countries all have default futures: the place they will end up if they continue on the same path and take no action. He discusses the forces that determine the default future of organisations …
Michael Earl discusses three major challenges facing CIOs today, namely the use and convergence of social media, consumerisation of IT and cloud computing. He argues that the name of the game in IT is changing and that it’s time for CIOs …
Peter Cochrane argues that our world is essentially non-linear and becoming more complex. This complexity is visibly pervasive in our workplace, government and everyday living. Furthermore the thinking and models of the past industrial revolution and experiences of past centuries …
David Trafford discusses the challenges faced by those responsible for delivering change and asks whether sufficient attention is given to putting the necessary conditions for change success in place.
It is widely acknowledged that only a very small proportion of …
Published:
November 3, 2011
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Change
Peter Boggis discusses five questions that are central to the development of strategy. He argues that strategy is really about making choices that are impossible to reverse or un-do, and that the greatest risks to implementing strategy often rests in …
Peter Turgoose discusses how senior and experienced managers, who feel that classroom-based programmes have little to offer them, can continue to grow and develop through alternative models of experiential learning. He argues that for experiential learning programmes to be effective …
Published:
September 8, 2011
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Learning
IT organisations have changed, are changing and will continue to change. This is not in question. What is different today is the pace and significance of change, whether it is driven by a move to shared services, offshore development, cloud …