Strategy Execution Derailment
Yesterday, Carrillion plc went into liquidation with debts of at least £1.5 billion ($2 billion). The 43,000-person construction and support services company operates in the
Ascent & Descent
I recently enjoyed flying First Class from London to Bangkok with a well known airline. It was a treat for me as I don’t expect
Executive Dilemmas
Organisation leaders have endured a rough ride recently. Barely a day passes when business chiefs are not accused of greed – the banking crisis seemingly
Smartphone Market Share vs Profitability
It’s interesting to see today’s news reports of Samsung ‘overtaking’ Apple in the smartphone wars. According to Strategy Analytics, Samsung’s 2011 Q3 market share was
Strategic Foresight
Unlike most bloggers, I haven’t yet mentioned Steve Jobs’s untimely death earlier this month, despite being a big fan of Apple’s products and having enormous
Who Got Fired?
In June I wrote about problems with the NHS’s embattled patient care records programme – which has since been cancelled. We have’t had to wait
The Progress Principle
Last month’s Harvard Business Review included an interesting article by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer, reporting the findings of a long study into motivation. Amabile
Patient Wait
The UK’s National Audit Office recently published an update on the delivery of patient care record systems in the country’s National Health Service (NHS). This
Gridlocked
Is your organisation ‘gridlocked’ and unable to respond to the upturn? In my recent book I suggested a disarmingly simple idea, about how capacity, capability