January is typically a time for reflection on the past year and an opportunity to refine business plans, set new goals and focus effort and attention on the year ahead. In addition to this, there’s always predictions as to the likely trends … Continue reading →
People Powered Change
Now those who read this blog will know a recurring theme is the need to dress old ideas up as new ones, with the skill being in spotting which one of these ideas ‘time’ – usually based on something that started out in Kotler On Marketing – has come round again. For the winners in 2015, I think the new idea will be leveraging the greatest untapped resource most companies have. Their own Colleagues…
The Future of Work – What Will 2015 Bring to Unified Communications and Collaboration?
Unified Communications – the ability to dynamically select a communications medium to optimally connect to data, decision makers, and experts according to the desires and preferences of the user is so 2010 – despite it still becoming a reality for many information workers today. 2015 will not be about making Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C) […]
Ten Investor Presentation Tips (CES Press Day – 2015)
I spent most of my first day at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) listening to press conferences, mostly from big companies. Some, like Dish, made a big splash with an LED drum parade followed by multiple marching kangaroos. The Dish CEO, Joseph P. Clayton, marched on stage with a drum and was pretty entertaining…
One Constant… Lots Of Variety
So we are a year old. What have we learned? We set up Custerian because we want to help business’s be more successful. Perhaps its an age thing, but you do get to a point in life where you appreciate phrases like ‘Giving Back’ or ‘Paying Forward’ more, so this altruistic outlook, making other’s successful, makes sense.
GoLang – Initial Thoughts
A few people have recently mentioned Go to me. The last time I looked at Go I dismissed it as yet another language I didn’t have time to learn. I still feel a little bit like that but recently a few changes in my outlook have made me want to revisit:
Angular Scope
One of my early misunderstandings with Angular was around scope. Scope provides a means for a controller and a view to communicate. The controller sets a variable on the scope and the view binds to it. Change the value of the variable and the view is updated – simple.
Scaling Kanban – Organisational Design
When applying Kanban principles beyond a single team you hit a number of organisational design challenges. I’ve found the biggest, most contentious challenge is how to organise the teams. Here are some organising principles I’ve come across…
Increasing Enterprise Value Through Procurement and Supply
A leading UK Facilities Management company faced a rapidly expanding business that required best of breed Procurement and Supply Chain practices to differentiate their operations and add Enterprise value for their clients. The challenge was to apply significant change across people, process and technology whilst continuing to deliver a 1st class service to their clients.
Why Collaboration is Broken: Becoming Anti-Fragile Through Design
This is an except from the new report: Why Collaboration is Broken. In Nicolas Nasim Taleb’s book, Anti-Fragile, the noted decision-making author describes how some things in nature and engineering benefit from chaos and stress. A glass does not benefit from stress. Place enough stress on it, and it shatters. When people exercise, that places …
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