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LONDON — I talked to an M&A banker on the weekend. Made me think of my time at high school dances. Always standing on the wall, trying to look cool. But never out on the actual dance floor. The merger and acquisition market is a bit quiet at the moment. And amen to that. We’re busy enough without it. Businesses are [...]
PICADILLY CIRCUS — Looks like the sun might actually come up in London today. That’s a relief. And one of my biggest concerns. Yesterday was dark and I can’t handle that. So, how lucky am I? That trivial issues like that concern me? Yesterday umpteen decisions were made that affect all of our lives and futures. Not just in London, New York [...]
DOHA, QATAR — We’re working on four different ‘transformation programmes’ at the moment. Combined they are on three continents, in over 30 countries. You would think that would provide some shocking contrasts. But it does something quite different. It shows startling similarities. Everything has superficial differences: language, geography, industry, structure… Yes, those can seem superficial. The issues in big business transformation generally fall into [...] BAHRAIN — This is my first time in Bahrain. That leaves only really Oman in the area that I haven’t been to / worked in. United Arab Emirates? It’s a part of the world that many people can’t (or choose not to) understand. In the last three weeks [...] AT HOME — I’ve been trying to figure out how I ended up with a four-digit dentist’s bill this month, without ever discussing even the procedure, let alone the fees. And I can’t really make sense of it. Similarly we have been working with a mid-level legal firm a few years and we keep getting bills through the door with what seems [...] HYDE PARK CORNER — I had a run of texts from a politically obsessed British friend last week. “Have you heard the latest joke about Chris Christie?” I hadn’t. In fact I hadn’t even heard of Chris Christie. I was still catching up on the impossible rise and fall of Rick Perry (who I also hadn’t heard of a [...] Two guys, a garage and a plan LONDON — It’s been three fairly eventful years. I suspect you’d be hard pressed to look at the last 25 years and come up with three more volatile years in which to be in business. Able and How was born on 08 September 2008. If you look here you can see [...] CHELSEA — The problem with change is that you cannot always foresee what might happen next. So you create an anticipated direction of travel and risks, issues, dependencies etc. along the way. That’s how it’s done. In a nutshell. The problem with Britain’s big banks though is not that they don’t know what might happen next. They do, but they’re determined to [...] Back in May, the renowned author and change management guru John Kotter published a short article on the role of hierarchy within organisations. Kotter suggested that whilst the hierarchical organisation had been successful during the 20th century, in the modern world, where an ‘ever increasing rate of change’ is taking place. The managerial processes which run through a [...] WEST LONDON — There’s a hording around the big, refurbished church at Hammersmith flyover that says TRANSFORMATIONSPACE. The hordings in the photo above are at the base of the new Shard of Glass building at London Bridge. What are they on about? The words ‘change’ and ‘transformation’ are starting to gain some currency in business circles these days. Many, many large companies [...] |
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