Our ServicesWe can provide your business with proven business change and systems implementation skills (technical and operational). We cover a broad range of business experience from both a financial and operational perspective, enabling us to find the core of process issues. Our preferred work method is engagement on a project basis, where we aim to deliver your IT project within …
End of Year IT Project Realignment
The end of the year can be a frustrating time for your IT project. You know you still have so much you want to achieve but you, or the team, are running out of time. It can also be disheartening if you’ve spent the year trying to get a project going, but you feel like you haven’t made enough progress. …
Business Change and Fight or Flight
Have you ever worked on a business change project that provoked very intense or out-of-character reactions in other staff? Someone who was a normally calm, rational, team member may have suddenly become aggressive in meetings, or someone previously quite helpful or vocal would silently retreat to a corner during project discussions. Fundamentally, this team member wasn’t happy with the change and they were …
It’s Not Too Late to Kickstart your IT Project
We’ve just gone past the point where we can’t talk about it still being the start of the New Year. It is, however, the time of year when we suddenly realise that despite our best intentions, none of our post-New Year projects have kicked off. For a lot of businesses, April is the beginning of the last quarter before the …
A Short Guide to Field Service Mobility Success
Almost everyone I talk to in the Service Industries is looking for the ideal Field Service Mobility solution for their business. However, when I ask them what that means, their definitions of Field Service Mobility vary greatly. Some see Mobility as the equivalent of a paper service docket on an iPad; others see Mobility as the ability to capture photo …
Outsourcing in the Real World
Recently we’ve been working on two projects that involved outsourcing. One involved outsourcing of operational staff while the other involved outsourcing of IT services. Coincidence? Probably not. We all know how much the world has changed economically and that we will most likely never go back to the glorious boom times of pre-GFC. A lot of businesses are realising that …
Project Kick Starters for the New Year
We all like the idea of starting the New Year with a clean slate, with all our old problems or projects solved or resolved. Unfortunately, life in a business isn’t always that simple. More often than not, you had a project underway but it was derailed somewhere at the beginning of December and ended up in “Christmas limbo”. So now …
Why You’re Never Too Small for IT Project Management
If you’re the owner/operator of or a manager in a Small to Mid-sized business, chances are you’ve come across the concept of IT project management and dismissed it as a waste of time and money. After all, you know you have good staff in your business who are keen to get involved in your IT project, so that should be …
Are you stuck in an IT Project Fail nightmare?
A 100% successful IT project is the Holy Grail for most IT departments in businesses. Most people have heard so many project horror stories that senior managers often believe that it’s impossible to deliver an IT Project on time, on budget and with significant business gain. Instead, they get caught up in all the tales from the trenches, which scare …