Do you have a healthy and empowering attitude to failure? Radio 4’s Start the Week this morning had an interesting discussion around risk, implementing policy and failure. Mathew Syed, the author of Black Box Thinking ...

Coordination is a word that we use frequently and think we understand. However, if my recent experience holds true, it is also a word that few are able to define clearly. If we are to ...

Required to work in both London and Cranfield - you will work with the Cabinet Office, software suppliers, the Centre for Business Performance and the International Centre for Programme Management at Cranfield to analyse the ...

This subject keeps coming up. Last time I was complaining about the fact that reporting lines don’t always help your delivery to the customer, but as we were discussing things at the Unipart Black Belt ...

It was good to see so many PLP participants at the Alumni event held in the Churchill Room in London on Tuesday night. Tony Meggs gave a great introduction and told us he was heartened ...

In our meeting yesterday we spent the morning focusing on the use of data in enabling organisations to improve their performance. David Anker of Lightfoot Solutions started the morning by talking about behaviours that prevent ...

Accenture are in the process of taking out their performance appraisal system and in doing so have joined a line of companies moving in this direction. In October 2013 I chaired the CIPD performance management ...

HSBC’s announcement about shedding jobs yesterday made me start to think again about why companies don’t perform (although it now looks as if HSBC wants to exit from UK and European regulation). What is reorganisation ...

The news in today’s newspapers about the fines being handed out to the banks again takes me back to the “big bang”; the change that happened in the City of London in the late 1980s. ...