Over the years I have spoken to many people about the culture of their organisations. Or perhaps more accurately, been spoken to. Many people. I can count on the fingers of one hand how often I have believed what they were saying(or they believed what they were saying). I think it is easy to get lost trying to understand the difference between what we believe we are and what we should be doing and what we really are and are actually doing. If I...

“Time is of the essence” How many times have you read that in an email, a contract or other missive ? From research it appears normal to expect that of others  – suppliers for example – but how often do we expect that of our own organisations ? Hand on heart, have you ever ‘kicked something into the long grass’ ? Prevaricated when asked simple questions ? Procrastinated when a quick decision could have been...

We do not want to be like a traditional management consultancy business. Though we have skills and experience equivalent (if not superior ) to some of the large multi-national consultancy businesses, we decided at the outset to change the model. Why I hear you ask ? Quite simply because the status quo is unfair and while it adds value to the bottom line of the consultancy company it does not – in so many cases – add value to the...

  If I ran a world wide consumer technology and entertainment business, encompassing movies, music, the Playstation stuff, LCD television, video cameras, digital still cameras, blu-ray Disc players/recorders, DVD players, home audio, car audio, PCs, mobile audio, Image sensors and other semiconductors, batteries, audio/video/data recording media and data recording system,broadcast and professional-use equipment, gaming devices, tablets,...

I remember buying an HP iPAQ in Hong Kong back in 2003. An amazing little device, hampered by a clunky Windows OS. It was pretty, clean looking, almost elegant. About the size of an iPhone. As I wandered back to my office in the lunchtime heat,  I did not realise it, but HP had been developing the PDA concept for a considerable period of time. It could have become an iconic product, it had the potential. I still have it in my personal museum of...