LSCM Christmas Dinner and Happy New Year to All
Happy New Year to everyone! :-) I hope you all have had a lovely Christmas holiday with loved ones. It is now officially 2016 :-D Oh Yeah! Fresh start! Have you set your New Year's ...
Do you have a healthy and empowering attitude to failure?
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, Can we do it Smarter?
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 ...
Research Fellow – Performance Analytics in Government Projects
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 ...
Stop Reorganising – Start Performing
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 ...
MPLA and PLP Alumni Event
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 ...
Public Sector Roundtable
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 ...
Is It Time to Performance-Manage the Performance?
We have made significant advances in managing performance in education and healthcare. Yet the world of classical music has been left almost entirely to its own devices and remains in chaos. Can performance management help us create order and drive responsible decisions and actions?
Is this the end of the performance appraisal?
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 ...
Stop Reorganising – Start Performing
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 ...