“Going digital is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it.” So, a bit like ...

Last week, we introduced the idea of Beyond Budgeting and how it chimes with our work with Cranfield on “A Systems Approach to Project Management”. It challenges the current standard practice of setting rigid budgets ...

Over the past two years or so, a fellow Visiting Fellow – Steve Morlidge – has been introducing me to the term and benefits of “Beyond Budgeting”. This has provided one major “Ah-ha! Moment”. It ...

Niels Bohr, the Nobel laureate in Physics and father of the atomic model, is quoted as saying, “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future!” This quote serves as a warning of the ...

There may be some of you who are still around to recall that fabulous song by Jimi Hendrix – All Along the Watchtower. [su_youtube url="https://youtu.be/TLV4_xaYynY"] So this week we’re looking at the siren and seductive ...

There are not many people who have not either read the book or seen the film Lord of the Rings. In that story, Sauron, the evil wannabe ruler of Middle Earth has his watchful eye ...

This is likely to be controversial, so I look forward to any (evidence-based) comments readers may have that counter my colleagues’ and customers’ observations on the use of Best Practice (or Best Value, or Best ...

Courtesy of Dilbert (Scott Adams 08 May 2008). Does it seem like Performance Reporting is using numbers that you can’t understand, can’t work out where they came from or are just plain different from the ...

Alan Sugar, once chairman of Tottenham Hotspurs, is something like Marmite to most people - you either love him or hate him. However, there's quite some insight in one of his quotes - "There is a ...

This is the transcript of a radio conversation of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995. Americans: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to ...