Succession Planning – some thoughts

Many times we have organizations going through crisis when a powerful leader steps aside, for whatever reason. The resulting situation could be one of many: Many in the second line of command clamor for the position and believe they are the most eligible replacement. No-one from the existing organization put their hands up. Corporation decides […]

Risk Management: Good to Great – Part II Enablers

Sometime in March 2016, we started with the series Risk Management: Good to Great. In Part I of the series on Practices. we covered what we believe are “great” risk management practices based on our consulting practice at PM Power Consulting. As a recap, here is the diagram from Part below: The centre piece in […]

3 People trends to consider in 2016

In previous posts, I had shared the technology and process trends. One common theme across the two is related to better teamwork and collaboration across organizational silos. In this post, I want to share three significant concepts that, when combined with the technology and process patterns, can help you achieve sustainable results. Yes, these are […]

2016: 4 process trends in IT to consider in your plans

Software development used to be known as just software programming in the 1940s. The classic book by Nikolas Wirth in the 1970s – Algorithms + Data structures   = Programs, looked beyond the code written into the larger picture of data structure and algorithms. As the problems solved by software became more pervasive and complex, the […]

2016: 4 Tech trends to consider in your plans

2015 had many new milestones related to technology. One such was IoT – or Internet of Things. I was amused by the nomenclature when I first heard of this – why ‘things’ – usually, to me, a thing is inanimate, that we use. While it can do something, I wouldn’t call it a friend or […]