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 […]
Software Costs Estimation In Agile Project Management
Editor’s Note I am often asked by client’s to manage software development projects. One of the aspects that most bothers a client is the cost of bespoke development, particularly because of the reputation major software development projects have of going over budget. This is often down to poor estimating, or even worse, of trying to […]
NEWS: new associates and new office
New Associates We now have access to a number of associate consultants who bring a wealth of experience from their different backgrounds. This provides Solitaire Consulting with the opportunity to take on much larger projects or to be more flexible with the work we undertake for our clients. Specific experience that is now available includes: […]
Ensuring Your People Keep up with the Technology
One of the biggest challenges I see in business today, is not the implementation of technology, but the way that technology is exploited to bring about business success. Already this year, I have helped two businesses implement major new information systems, but just implementing a new system is not enough. In both these businesses the new […]
Free eBook – 12 Successful Business Improvement Techniques
Click on the image below to get instant access to my free eBook. The purpose of this eBook is to bring together the 10 years of experience I have gathered since starting Solitaire Consulting. Many of the techniques here are based on sound theoretical principles and have been tried and tested both by me and many other consultants. […]
3 Ways to Accelerate Your Digital Transformation
Digital transformation is the latest term for the application of technology in your business. Usually this relates to improving the customer experience and/or driving down operating costs by automating processes and commoditising products and services. Every type of business uses technology differently, but there are some core tools that can be applied effectively in almost […]
Event: Digital Transformation Accelerated
Supported by Solitaire Consulting, MBS are hosting Laserfiche workshops in the Channel Islands where you’ll see how this Document and Business Process Management platform can accelerate your organisation’s Digital Transformation through: streamlining of laborious processes using Workflow and Forms; simple yet powerful integration using the Laserfiche Connector; and closing the digital loop by incorporating Digital Signatures […]
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 […]
Time. How do you Manage Yours?
Whether you are a manager, business leader, self-employed or even retired, time is undoubtedly your most precious resource. None of us know how much we are going to have, but on a day to day basis, time is the one thing we all have exactly the same amount of; some of us just choose to […]
How to Deal with Project or Initiative Overload
Do you find yourself trying to manage too many conflicting priorities? Do you have to keep multiple bosses happy, or have more new ‘initiatives’ start than you can complete? If so, you are not alone, but there are ways to manage these situations effectively. Although you need to be careful not to fall into the […]
