The NHS is a contentious area for the use of improvement tools, particulalry now because of the Health Bill going though Parliament. But if you can rein in the emotion and heat generated by the subject, there are some examples of significant improvements driven from the use of ‘Lean Principles’.… Read more
http://www.stonac.co.uk/1465/operational-improvement-in-the-nhs
I sometimes get asked about Prince2 and what is the benefit of becoming accredited. I believe that it is an important and useful methodology provided it is carefully tailored to the size, complexity and risk of the project.… Read more
http://www.stonac.co.uk/1425/key-elements-of-prince2
I think most people would agree that a level of rigour is a necessary evil in many areas across most businesses. I have yet to meet anyone who intentionally endangers their employees so rigour is important when deploying health and safety policy.… Read more
http://www.stonac.co.uk/1211/appropriate-rigour
I ran another meeting for freelancers last Tuesday and the subject for this was ‘Best Practice LinkedIn’ delivered excellently by Richard Kotulecki, one of the group members. So what did I pick up?… Read more
http://www.stonac.co.uk/1184/more-linkedin-tips
With thanks to John Niland, VCO Global (http://www.vco-global.com/)
It used to be sufficient to understand requirements. And perhaps write them down, so that when the Boss or the Client changed their minds, you could at least remind them.… Read more
http://www.stonac.co.uk/1144/the-courage-to-re-frame-requirements
I wrote about Project Initiation in the article here. This approach is typically seen as being the exclusive preserve of the Project Manager. However, I find the approach useful in many other scenarios when working with customers.… Read more
http://www.stonac.co.uk/1121/project-principles-applied-to-other-parts-of-the-business
I firmly believe that it is very important for people who live and work in the freelance world to ensure that they have assessed the risks associated with this way of working and have protection in place.… Read more
http://www.stonac.co.uk/1098/the-maths-of-freelancing
In previous issues, Della Payne, Managing Director of Business Intelligence consultancy, change++, has described how different tools, including dashboards and scorecards, can be used to manage performance in organisations. In this issue, Payne outlines the benefits of automating the delivery of regular reports on any aspect of business performance, whether a Profit and Loss report or the number of units sold in an outlet at a particular time of day.… Read more
http://www.stonac.co.uk/1051/how-standard-reports-eliminate-the-problems-of-re-keyed-data-from-multiple-sources
