It’s been an interesting year for us, some projects have been cancelled, some slowed down but others have been escalated.
I’ve seen a striking increase in demand to turnaround projects and programs where no one wants to report failure, and boards have started to show more interest and appetite for project and program activity. It’s a brave executive who fronts their board with repeated delays, cost overruns and closing windows of benefit realisation. read more
A few years ago the conversation around cultures associated with multisourcing would not have arisen. Instead the conversation would have revolved around the policy of the day and its supporting reasons/rationalisations such as; cost saving; moving cost from the spreadsheet; increasing scalability; transfer of refresh responsibility; risk management; and, very occasionally, as a vehicle for changing culture.
But today, we’ve learnt that the very best intentions came come unstuck, or at best consume too much management time and effort. The only way to make it work is to get people from all parties to do things you want them to do, how, and when you want them done.
And that brings us to the culture. The question is – why do we look at culture? read more