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The top 9 projects post COVID-19

How things have changed in the last 8 weeks. Many organisations have mothballed their projects due to the impact of Covid-19 on sales, staff and long-term business strategy. As businesses move from initial crisis management mode towards forward thinking and new approached now is...
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Delivering projects in retail 

Whilst Covid has clearly had an impact on ways of working, the current climate and priorities, we have managed to continue to deliver our IT and business projects at pace and we would like to share some examples of the challenges we have overcome....
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Advice on what every legal COO should be doing to succeed post pandemic

There is only one certainty and that is that life is already now different and will be different again post the pandemic. Looking at any parameters or statistics you can clearly see that this is a seismic global event, both on a health and...
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Making Projects Successful in the Retail Sector

The current pandemic has had widespread economic impacts that will endure for many months and beyond. Nowhere have these more rapidly hit than in the UK retail sector. The British Retail Consortium has reported March 2020 as the steepest decline on record as largely...
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The new meeting etiquette

We are now all well versed to continuing our conversations, workshops and meetings remotely and as well as the obvious benefit of cutting out the commute and travel time, we have also seen some real improvements in meeting etiquette, productivity and the human connection....
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Corona cabin fever: Your household provides a real life example of how teams respond to change

6 weeks into isolation and in our house we have reached, not quite a routine, but a way of operating, which has been honed through a balance of listening and negotiating through countless tears and tantrums.  In many ways it has been the most...
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Keeping up the banter

By now we are all well-versed in working remotely and the novelty is wearing off rapidly. I am spending my entire day on Teams, Skype and Zoom, requiring high levels of concentration and I feel my eyes have gone square! I am sure we...
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Waking the Zombies

In the UK, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson has returned to work on 27 April 2020, the economy in many sectors is in a zombie-like state of decline. The economic output level has also declined at unprecedented speed. What’s Been Going On? Remote working,...
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Resilience lessons from surfing

Surfing must be one of the most exciting, challenging, frustrating, but yet exhilarating sports. It is never the same. A sport with many variables, some that you can control and some that are outside your control. As we find ourselves in the current situation...
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Operational resilience

Gartner describes operational resilience as: A set of techniques that allow people, processes and informational systems to adapt to changing patterns. It is the ability to alter operations in the face of changing business conditions. Operational resilience is now more relevant than ever. All businesses –...
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