I bet it seemed logical at the time
Oh how times change! I am reading a good book at the moment called "Competing on Analytics – The New Science of Winning" and I hit one particular quote that I have to share with you. It’s one of those …
Category: Finance
Mrs CleverWorkarounds – Skills and Competencies of Global Managers
Hi everyone. Some light reading for the weekend 😉 This post is not authored by me (Paul). Instead, my one-and-only darling wife. Apart from being an all-round hottie, she has been studying a post-graduate business course at University. The content …
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Why do SharePoint Projects Fail? – Part 7
Hi all Welcome to the 7th post on this series delving into the murky depths of SharePoint project failure. I’m sure that even if you haven’t used SharePoint, or been involved in a SharePoint project, most will have experiences of …
Globalisation, Strategy, Technology and Organisational Maturity
This post is going a little off-track from the previous 5 posts around SharePoint project failure and I promise I will get back on track again soon. I felt that I had to talk about this topic while we are …
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Why do SharePoint Projects Fail – Part 3
This third post in the “Who do SharePoint Projects Fail” series has been hard to write, not because I am struggling with ideas, but because I have too many! It is hard to put all the reasons why SharePoint projects …
More on SOX and subprime
In 2002, a high profile client asked the company I was involved with what our position/compliance was on ISO17799. The managing director called me up and asked if I could “put something together for him” by the next day. So …
Compliance is about to get worse…
I think SharePoint is an excellent platform for quality improvement, PMO and compliance efforts. But this is a non SharePoint oriented post. I’m sick of writing nerdy stuff at the moment. In 2001, the supposedly blue chip US multinational called …
Selling MOSS (The moral of the story)
I hope that you had a bit of fun with my first “choose your own adventure” story. (Do yourself a favour and read that first!) Writing that one was most fun. Did you suddenly think of the names of current …
Learn to talk to your CFO: Web Application Scenario – Part 5
Welcome to the fifth article in my series on fostering mutual love and respect between those know-it-all smartarse technical geeks and the guys who do their taxes! This is the final SharePoint scenario that I will cover in this series, …
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Learn to talk to your CFO: WCM scenario – Part 4
Welcome to the fourth article in my series that attempts to bridge the cultural divide between nerds and accountants. Unfortunately there are more differences to these two strange species than just fashion sense and whether a pocket calculator is in …
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