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David Allen at Google Campus

October 13, 2014 No Comments 1 Min Read

After an invite from Next Action Associates to come to Google Campus and listen to David Allan talk about GTD. As always the brief talk brought about some thought provoking insights and humour that you come to expect from David Allen. The question section as always came round to discussing email and the other inputs that as knowledge workers need to make decisions on every day, with the resounding advice…

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Alex Osterwalder the Business Model Alchemist

June 5, 2012 No Comments 0 Min Read

I have been a fan of Alex Osterwalder since reading his business model alchemist blog, having used the Business Model Canvas in several projects and most recently as a tool in Claimbase it has great merit. Its worth watching this video to get an understanding of Alex Osterwalder thinking and see if it fits with your current process and tool kit. https://youtube.com/watch?v=jMxHApgcmoU%3Frel%3D0

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Conversations with Accidental PMs – Goals and Objectives

November 8, 2011 No Comments 3 Min Read

Over the past week many of the conversations have been with accidental project managers who are struggling with projects. Mainly as a result of them accepting projects that are focused on achieving organisational goals. In most cases doomed for failure as there are either far to many objectives or far to few that are badly defined. Without getting the the original project/projects defined in the beginning the accidental/new PM has…

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