
18 Excellent Reasons to Write Down What You Do
Superior Business Analysis is based on a fairly simple premise – that to improve what you do, you need to think about what you do. […]
Superior Business Analysis is based on a fairly simple premise – that to improve what you do, you need to think about what you do. […]
Project management is a big thing in the corporate and public sector world and there are therefore often high expectations about how projects are delivered. […]
So, this week we are resuming where we left off at the end of the last post, dealing with tables and broader frameworks for capturing […]
So finally – after deferring it off for several posts – we have made it back to decision analysis and the use of decision tables. […]
We have been thinking recently about organisational change and how it can be implemented. Last fortnight’s post focussed on how to make the change stick […]
Ok gang. So the last two posts have been on documenting and then improving the steps followed to undertake an activity (yes, no matter how […]
Given we have spent the last couple of posts exploring how to document activity steps and how to elicit them, it is fitting that we […]
Oh heck. It has been one of those fortnights and somehow my usual blog-writing commutes got gobbled up by work and conversation. But my next […]
Finally here’s the subject I’ve been waiting for! Not because the other topics we’ve covered are irrelevant or mundane. Nope, this is more of a […]
Today we are doing something a little bit different and instead of exploring my next planned topic, I will be reviewing – or enthusiastically regurgitating […]
Hmmmm. Just looking at that word ‘risk’ gets me a bit scared. It’s silly really. There are tiny risks, infinitesimally unlikely risks, funny risks and […]
The opportunities associated with generating lots of ideas are only realised when you know what to do with them. Surely no one can argue with […]
Over the last couple of posts we’ve been looking at the reporting part of an organisational framework and hopefully you’ll be happy to hear we’re […]
Performance reporting to some people seems akin to a root canal… except that it keeps happening over and over again. Why do I say that? […]
I’ve been looking forward to this fortnight’s post as it’s on a topic which intrigues me, but that I haven’t explored too much in the […]
The post for this week (or rather this fortnight – you may have noticed that my posts have slipped further apart) will probably prompt a […]
Today we’re thinking about forms and templates – those reusable artifacts that mean every time you need to produce a letter or a piece of […]
Standard Operating Procedures are – embarrassingly enough – very close to my heart. For me Standard Operating Procedures, otherwise known as SOPs, are standards, knowledge […]
To me, the intrigue of developing policy (for both internal and external application) lies in two areas. Firstly, in the opportunity to use your […]
Ok I’ve decided that we’ll stick with value chains for another week, for 3 reasons…. 1. The more I think about them the more […]
One thing that often is missed by organisations is an understanding of how their complex operations contribute toward the satisfaction of the end user. There […]
With the start of 2013 and a new set of New Year’s resolutions, it seems like the perfect time to talk about how to fulfil […]
Yes, this is the week that I’ve been looking forward to. Where I zip down my outfit to reveal …. Processwoman! So today we are […]