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An analogy Think of a small business, say thirty people.  Its financial software is out of date and increasingly failing to support all the business’s needs.  So the board decides to invest in a new package.  An exercise is carried and a new package is identified and purchased. ... Read More

1 On 14 june 2017 Mr Tim Farron resigned from his position as ‘leader’ of the Liberal Democrats in the UK.  I put ‘leader’ in quotation marks because I am not sure that Mr Farron is or was a real leader and I am certain that the bosses of the other parties, including Mrs Theresa... Read More

[This article was originally written for commenters on the Guardian‘s ‘below the line’ Comment is free facility.] When posting your comments, do bear in mind the following principles and precepts.  You can increase the value of your posts by up to 50% if you do!... Read More

Some of these six problems apply to projects other than IT projects. 1 A failure to distinguish between want and need.  At least one person has explicitly stated the supplier has to find out what the client wants and deliver it  No!  That will end in tears.  You have to establish... Read More

Most pop groups and solo performers peak on their second disc, at least they used to.  Pink Floyd, Jefferson Airplane and many others.  After that high spot, everything afterwards has been a remorseless trudge into the depths of increasing banality. And they know it. It went... Read More

emotional intelligence at work uses a model that postulates that relationships go through five stages * (see also About this model below). 1  Honeymoon stage The first of these is the honeymoon stage.  We are all familiar with that sudden overwhelming feeling of “true love”—more... Read More

1 I am no Labour supporter, but I want a strong Labour leader.  Mr Jeremy Corbyn has to go firstly because he has failed to deliver a credible—or any—opposition to the government in the lifetime of his “leadership”. His first duty was to his country, not to a particular faction... Read More

1 As a preamble, we should recognise that high profile politicians, particularly those in government, have always let us down.  I hope to return to this subject in a forthcoming post. When I was a student, we had the ‘three day week’—a joint production between tory prime... Read More

Here is my blog of 26 february [*1] (cut), annotated with what really happened Why any referendum is a political cop out 1   The issue is too complex to be reducible to a single question to which the only answers are yes and no. … whether the UK should stay in the EU is too... Read More

1 One of the most irritating aspects of the aftermath of the EU referendum is those voters who, having voted to leave, are now choosing to express their ‘buyer’s remorse’ in public “I voted leave to help our economy. However the £ has plummeted and I immediately regret my... Read More