by admin | Aug 25, 2025 | Competency, Strategy
Forty years of management and membership in professional teams has allowed me to observe valuable leadership skills and characteristics in diverse environments including Banking, Sales, IT, Community Services, and Academia. A hoped-for “C”-based mnemonic...
by admin | Jun 16, 2025 | Strategy, Technology
My father supervised electronic and communications applications for a busy Air Traffic Control centre when I was a kid and sometimes I was able to observe him in action (these were days before the current high security on air navigation control centres). I was...
by admin | Apr 2, 2025 | Portfolio, Strategy, Technology
A few years ago I attended a conference for SMEs seeking eBusiness advice for their operations. The speaker (a self-professed expert on eBusiness) suggested that building a custom application in this day and age makes no sense when off-the-shelf (OTS) applications are...
by admin | Mar 1, 2025 | Portfolio, Strategy, Technology
Sometimes the value of eBusiness web services can seem a little ethereal. The inspiration for today’s column title comes from a conversation I had with a visitor to a recent business networking event. “So what is it your company does?” he...
by admin | Jan 29, 2025 | Strategy, Technology
My wife placed an Anita Roddick quote under a magnet on our fridge. It reads “If you think yourself too small to be effective, you’ve never been in bed with a mosquito”. It got me thinking again about the many small businesses we have consulted with...
by admin | Dec 1, 2024 | Strategy, Technology
When my wife and I began looking for a house about 20 years ago, we visited a number of century homes and “rambler mansions”– you know the ones that were built in the early 20th century, added a wing in the 1920s, a garage in the 40s, a new porch and...
