Ask ten people in your organisation what the company strategy is. If you get ten different answers, you don’t have a strategy. You have a communication problem. It’s a surprisingly common issue. Leadership teams spend months developing strategic plans, only to discover that people interpret them in completely different ways. The strategy may be documented…
Walk into almost any meeting and you’ll notice the same pattern. A question is asked. One or two people answer immediately. The discussion gathers momentum. Others nod in agreement. Eventually, a decision is made. The meeting finishes. On the surface, it looks like good collaboration. In reality, many of the people in the room never…
When people think about IT projects, they usually think about technology. Servers. Cloud platforms. Cybersecurity. Applications. Integrations. But ask anyone who’s delivered a major IT project and they’ll tell you the technology is rarely the hardest part. People are. The Real Reason IT Projects Struggle Whether you’re implementing Microsoft 365, replacing an ERP system, migrating…
“We’ve tried brainstorming.” It’s something I hear time and time again. A leadership team has spent hours in a boardroom discussing strategy, a project team can’t agree on priorities, or a business is trying to solve a problem that seems to go round in circles. Everyone leaves the meeting feeling like they’ve talked a lot,…