Leveraging AI for professional services firms: The benefits of a virtual CIO
In the dynamic landscape of modern business operations, businesses face a myriad of challenges in navigating regulatory compliance, client management, and technological advancements. Amidst this complexity, the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents an unparalleled opportunity for these businesses to streamline processes, enhance decision-making, and fortify their competitive edge in an evolving market. At […]
A Christmas Message 2023
As the year comes to a close, I want to thank you all for being part of our Solitaire journey, and for trusting us with your business needs. All our clients and partners have shown remarkable adaptability and creativity in facing the challenges and opportunities that this year has brought. We are honoured to work […]
Stakeholder Management using the Power Interest Matrix
Stakeholder Management is one of the core skills that every Project Manager or Change Manager needs to master. However, in my experience it is something that is often done badly or even ignored completely. In this blog, I will present the Power Interest Matrix as one of the tools I use to help manage project […]
New Product: Triyo project collaboration software
According to the Gallup 2017 Digital Workplace Survey, 31% of senior executives state their biggest workplace challenge is the lack of “Cross-Departmental Collaboration”. The same survey reported that 33% of executives stated their biggest digital priority was “Enterprise Social / Real-Time Collaboration”. My experience working with organisations of different sizes is that enterprise wide collaboration […]
When do you Celebrate Project Success?
One of the technology projects I’m currently managing is nearing ‘go-live’ and I’m working with the client team to complete user acceptance testing and get the inevitable test issues resolved. This project has been a bit of a hard slog and the project team is feeling a bit demoralised and just want to go back to […]
What Could you do with a 40% Increase in Efficiency?
Solitaire Consulting is delighted to have been asked, once again, by Manx Business Solutions to speak at one of their technology seminars. This time the event is being held at the Sefton Hotel, in the Isle of Man on Thursday 19th March 2015. Following their recent award for technology solutions that enabled clients achieve a 40% increase in […]
Are you Responsible or Accountable?
I was discussing the question of responsibility and accountability with one of my clients recently and they were having difficulty distinguishing the two. This was one of the contributory factors why many of the strategies and projects they initiated failed to achieve the outcomes expected. So what is the difference between being responsible for something […]
New Year, New Office in New Street & New Opportunities
Here we are at the end of another busy year, which I hope has been as successful for you as it has been for me. Despite the difficult trading conditions, particularly at the beginning of 2012 the year has turned out very well overall. I am now looking forward to another exciting year with lots […]
A New Year, a new project
As a project manager I just love starting a new project; I have a blank page and can start creating my own framework for management and reporting (obviously within the client’s methodology 🙂 ), planning the project, building the team etc. The issues log is blank and everyone is excited about the almost endless possibilities […]
Projects, Programmes and Portfolios
The terms project, programme and portfolio are often used inconsistently with different organisations having contradictory interpretations of their meaning. This can lead to confusion both within the project management profession and with others in an organisation. Here I provide my view of these project management terms which will hopefully provide some clarity of definition that […]
