Follow the items below to guarantee an ERP project failure. Read them as a reverse checklist: every one you recognise in your organisation is a risk to remove. ERP selection Pick the system you used at your last job and decide quickly. Ignore stakeholders outside IT....
You may see me in the kitchen, busy preparing a new dish. From the outside, everything looks fine — I’m chopping, mixing, tasting, researching, adjusting. It looks like progress. But the real test isn’t in the process — it’s in the dish. If the dish turns out...
Our loyalty to an organisation isn’t measured by the number of years we’ve drawn a salary from it—it’s measured by how deeply we’ve thought about its success and what we’ve done to make a lasting difference. We can take a short-term view and focus only on our tenure,...
Project Managers rarely admit when things are going wrong — not because they’re careless, but because they’re scared. They often overlook early signs of trouble, masking project constraints and looming risks with optimism. Many project managers act as if everything is...
The statistics are grim when it comes to managing change. Most transformations — software implementations, restructures, and organisational overhauls — fail to meet expectations. Projects run over budget, over time, and under quality. Why is the war against the status...
All future-focused artefacts share one common purpose — to create clarity. Every artefact is a lens.If the lens is foggy, the future stays blurry. When these documents fail to bring clarity, they simply add to the noise and lose their value. Consider a few examples. A...
What is the one gift you can give your people that will help them outperform themselves, work collaboratively, and overcome resistance to change? This gift keeps them focused and aligned to make a real difference. They’ll be self-driven — no motivational lectures...
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...