allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

In my last posting I confessed that while I write a blog I don’t spend a lot of time reading others. Well in my efforts to better understan...

Lets get one thing straight: this isn’t a “why do I blog?” navel gazing entry. No, I promised myself I wouldn’t write one of them until I h...

Don’t think I’ve mentioned this before - but apologies if I have! I’ll be at the ACCU conference in Oxford next month (19-22 April). I’ll...

Some kind of normality has returned. The house move is done - although plenty to do on the new place we can live here quite normally. And ...

For a few years now I’ve been interested in the application of Patterns and Pattern-thinking to the area of business and business strategy. ...

According to a piece on Knowledge @ Wharton the adoption of ISO 9000, Six Sigma, TQM and other similar initiatives can lead to a decline th...

A couple of train journeys yesterday allowed me to race to the end of Leading Change (John P. Kotter, 1996). This is a book I’ve been mean...

I spent the best part of two hours this morning doing a very un-middle class thing. I put about 200 A4 newsletters through peoples doors. ...

We moved house at the weekend. Given this blog’s reoccurring theme of change I thought its worth recording some of the things going through...

Back in November I agonised about this question . Well, things have moved on and I’ve had the chance to think about the question. At the ti...