Season’s Greetings from Solitaire Consulting
Here we are nearly at the end of another year, when a lot of us take time to reflect on the previous 12 months and look ahead to the future. Here at Solitaire Consulting it has been a good year; we have built on foundations laid in previous years and worked on a number of […]
How Well Aligned are Your Actions to Your Strategy?
I have worked with two organisations in the last couple of months that both exhibited the same general problem that I believe many business suffer from, particularly those with different business units working semi-autonomously. In one of the businesses I was reviewing, everyone was working hard and appeared to be very busy in their own Departments achieving […]
Playing Small Does not Serve the World
Twice in the past week, I have been reminded of a poem that first appeared in A Return to Love, by Marianne Williamson. It has often been attributed to the late Nelson Mandela in his inaugural speech as president of the Republic of South Africa. Although this was just another internet myth, many agree that these words […]
Computers for Romania
With Christmas getting close I am sure many of you are intending to take advantage of the good deals available on PCs, laptops and tablets. This may mean that the dusty old desktop PC that is taking up space in the spare room needs to go. If it is still in working order, please do […]
Collaborative Working to Guarantee a Successful Systems Implementation
In this final article in my series on Change Management I will discuss how you can best work with your technology provider to guarantee a successful systems implementation. For the purposes of this blog, I will use the offshore trust administration industry as an example, but the principles will apply to other industries as well. […]
Embedding change following a systems implementation project
If you have been following my blog series on managing technology and systems change you will have read about the importance of considering the change process both before and during a systems implementation or upgrade project. Unfortunately, that was just the easy bit! Implementing a new piece of technology is relatively easy, yes it can […]
Understanding the Context of IT Systems Change
In this first of a series of four articles on implementing a new business system I will be discussing the importance of understanding the context of change in the organisation, and how to go about establishing the right framework to undertake a significant system implementation project. Given that you are already here looking at this blog […]
Collaboration – why being self employed need not mean working on your own
I’ve been self employed now for 6 years, firstly as a sole trader and for the last 2 years as a limited company. Prior to this I had been in management positions for at least 15 years so had always had a team of people around me. Having to do everything myself and not having […]
Business Continuity Plans – how did yours stack up this week?
For those of my readers living in the Channel Islands it has been a pretty unusual week – the worst snow storm and blizzards for 30 years, trees down across the islands, roads impassable, schools closed for three days etc etc! The result was a significant disruption to business across the islands. For local businesses […]
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 […]
