This article was first published in The Parliamentary Review which is a guide to best practice for industry and is co chaired by Lord Pickles and Lord Blunkett. Achieving outstanding value for money cuts across every part of operations, from procurement to HR and everything in between. The optimal use of every resource at our […]
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Darwin and The Travelling Salesperson
This was first published on the blog at my other business: Objectivity If a salesperson has to visit all the cities in their patch and then return home every night, how could they work out the shortest route? That was the question posed to me by our consulting director Matt Weaver in about 2013. My initial response […]
Stair Climb Challenge
This was first published on the blog at my other business: Objectivity I’ve never been to a gym. Somehow, I know that the good intentions at the beginning will weaken and be scattered to the winds as real life butts in. The abandoned new year resolution is a cliche for a reason! But I do care about […]
Lessons in Life from an Ai Agent
It’s the custom at my other business to invite our colleagues to give talks before the Christmas Party that will entertain and educate us all. This year, I spent some of my personal time exploring Artificial Intelligence and one of my targets was a sub branch called reinforcement learning. It was fascinating and in many ways […]
Four steps towards innovation mastery…
This was first published on the blog at my other business: Objectivity I’ve always loved looking for new ways of doing things. As a teenager on the farm, I think I drove my poor dad wild! In a way, I’ve dedicated my career to it (finding new ways, not driving my dad wild!). I didn’t always realise […]
Entrepreneur Nomination
This was first published on the blog at my other business: Objectivity Someone was kind enough to nominate me for this award. It’s for the Entrepreneurial CEO of the year for IT Services in Western Europe. I’m on quite a long list at the moment and the next cut is being done on the basis of my […]
Learning with colour…
This was first published on the blog at my other business: Objectivity I’ve been creating, building or transforming businesses for over 25 years now, but before that I was a developer. And whilst it’s been a long time since I wrote software professionally, I still love to have a side project to help me learn new […]
Are Values in Business our Fair Weather Friend?
This was first published on the blog at my other business: Objectivity When I was in Warsaw in 2015, I met a lady called Zofia Dzik and late last year, she asked me if I would speak at a conference she was organising. The subject is very close to my heart and so of course I […]
DWP – A Tech Talk
This was first published on the blog at my other business: Objectivity I was asked recently to give a talk to some of the leadership team at the Department of Work and Pensions. They run a monthly lunchtime session and ask people from industry and academia to come in and share their experiences. Their Director General […]
When you need to set up in a new country…
This was first published on the blog at my other business: Objectivity This blog was written following a discussion with a UK national newspaper and they asked for information on setting up in a new country. If it’s hard to compete because of your UK cost base and you’re looking for a new location, how should […]