Before setting up my consultancy business, I held the position of Production Manager for a UK based technology company. They were a company of 90 employees. I worked with five peers to manage the day-to-day operational activity, I led a team of 16 shop-floor operatives who held technical skills in software development and technology integration. […]
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Business Visioning Workshops Get Results
I Love Rich Pictures There is no denying the impact that graphical storytelling can have on groups of people – particularly as it often transcends the borders of industry sectors and breaks down the barriers of language. Taking complex data sets and visualising them, produces some great insight. A good visual representation of an opportunity […]
Change Management – Four Modes of Innovation Led Strategic Thinking
How your business changes its strategic direction is often a source of great opportunity. But where can you find the font of knowledge that enables business innovation? Is it found in the minds of the seasoned industry experts, the fresh thinking MBA graduates, the experienced knowledge workers or is to be found in the very […]
Designing For the People of Tomorrow
An unsettling reality dawns I have two teenage children and many friends with similar aged children. I have detected a shared, unsettling question of ‘what will tomorrow be like for them?’ Some friends are heavily pushing their kids into medicine, science or engineering – nothing wrong with that, they are all great professions and offer […]
What Is Strategic Planning?
All business processes differ in some way from one another. There are certain common characteristics that all busineses share. If you work strategically within the Operations part of the enterprise you may occassionally find the mix of work difficult to tactically deliver. How do you categorise different types of work and prepare for their oncoming? […]