Author Archives: Alastair Thomson

Most organisations run largely – perhaps almost entirely – thanks to a range of unsung heroes. They may be almost invisible on the organisation chart but they’re the glue which holds everything together.

Increasingly tech solutions have a poor RoI because so many areas have been optimised already. So creating incremental RoI is hard.

Why productivity and efficiency are not the same thing – and which you should prioritise in your business…

The art of change management isn’t in knowing what to change. It’s in knowing what you should leave exactly as it is.

Doing things right first time is always more cost effective in the long-run than bumbling your way through.

We live in an increasingly complex world, but what often seems to be missing in company decision-making is an acceptance that we need to make choices.

Why many organisations struggle to manage their cost base effectively. And what to do about it.

When you’re trying to assess how a business really sees the world, you’ve got two choices. You can pour through every page on their website, and check out all their publicly available strategy documents, covering things like their commitments to people, customers, and product quality. Or you can visit them and ask to go toContinue reading “Little things mean a lot”

Optimise your business around what’s easiest for your customers and your business automatically becomes more efficient. It doesn’t work the other way around.

In business, you need to avoid people promising magical, risk-free results because, if they’re not running an actual Ponzi scheme, they’re up to something very similar.