When solutions are easy to grab, we start treating every problem with a quick fix. Want to lose weight? Pills and surgery promise shortcuts.When Microsoft released Access and Excel, businesses built countless homegrown tools. The same thing happened with PowerApps and...
Financial justification of technology projects is one of the dumbest habits we keep repeating. Yet, we still haven’t found a better way. Return on Investment (ROI) works because it’s simple. Everyone in the business can understand the concept—it’s just the percentage...
We get what we pay for is a myth. It makes good business sense to maximise outputs with the inputs we have. But how do we make this possible? The first step is to see things differently. Consider these points: Every purchase should be rooted in clarity of need, not...
We aspire to do more with less. To squeeze diamonds out of pressure, not just coal out of effort. Yet in the noise of lean, SMART goals, MVPs, frameworks, and countless acronyms, the signal often fades. Busyness drowns out progress, and we end up with activity, not...
How do we know if we’re doing the right things or even walking the right path? We rarely know everything before we start. Often, we have to take a few steps, invest some resources, and then pause to reassess whether adjustments are needed. The real problem isn’t the...
Achieving more with limited resources is not a new idea—but it is a necessary one. What makes the difference is not the constraint itself, but the approach we take to manage it. Consider these approaches: Exploit resources by squeezing more out of them. Manipulate...
Projects do not fail because they are too complex. They fail because the leadership to back them is missing. Delivering successful projects and digital transformations is achievable—but only with a leader who has the conviction to understand the process, the...
The initiation stage often gives us the illusion that a project is ready to begin. In reality, much of the critical work happens before initiation truly starts. Project initiation begins with discovery. Think of it as a fact-finding mission before the formal kickoff....