Centre for Business Performance
“GBO” – Why executives and senior leaders are so busy?
In a previous job a long time ago, I was sharing a late-night beer with the Chairman of our company, at that time based in Austin, Texas – the gun capital of the USA. As ...
Why Best Practice Fails – Cynefin Framework and Adopting Techniques That Work – second of four on this subject
Some while ago, we blogged about how the use of Best Practice is the well-trodden path to mediocrity. https://blogs.cranfield.ac.uk/leadership-management/cbp/the-use-of-best-practice-the-well-trodden-path-to-mediocrity Not only does adoption of so-called Best Practice lead to mediocrity. Transferring Best Practice ...
“Computer says ‘So’ – Innovation and Cynefin” – first of four on this subject
Some of you will remember the famous sketch in the TV series, Little Britain, where the “Computer Says No” to a prospective customer, and the frustrating time that person has in understanding why! Well, ...
Innovation is not always Progress!
At the end of last year, some of you may have watched the TV series "The First" about the first mission to the planet mars set in the 2030s. A statement keeps ringing in my ...
Spending on the elderly – how should we interpret the numbers?
Radio 4 yesterday morning presented figures collated from analysis by the BBC on how the spending in England per head on those over 65 has fallen by approximately 25% in real terms since 2010. That ...
Data Visualisation, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Data Visualisation, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Wikipedia: Data visualisation is viewed by many disciplines as a modern equivalent of visual communication. It involves the creation and study of the visualrepresentation of data. ...