Australia Day 2010 has gone; summer holidays (for those lucky enough to enjoy them) are definitely over. It's time to roll up sleeves and start tackling this year's challenges. Last year corporate health and well-being amid the global financial crisis (GFC) was a major focus. Now, as concern about the GFC eases (at least in this part of the world) it may be an apt occasion to consider personal health and well-being. A useful starting point is work-life balance.
top Time to Spring Clean Your Business - Here's How!Days are longer, weather's improving, business conditions are looking up. It's time to energise your business to deal with better times ahead. The last few months have been difficult. In a subdued business climate focus has been on the things that are both important and urgent. Now is an opportunity to catch our breaths and attend to things that were not urgent, but are still important. Cash flow is king so we are not talking about throwing money around. Even so, here are some great spring cleaning initiatives that even your cleaners wouldn't do.
top Helping Your Friends Work the NetworkMany of us know of friends who are looking for a job. Of course they have made a list of head hunters to look up, and they are monitoring the job sites and trawling the papers – but how do they best work the network?
We are not HR consultants – but over the last 10 years we have developed this technique for helping our friends. The purpose of this brief note is to share our approach so that you can help friends who are looking for a job.
top March 2009 - CIO SurveyWe have talked to 25 CIOs about how best to survive 2009 over the last month, and have put together this short note where we have analysed what strategies CIOs are adopting, and have crafted a plan of attack - which might be helpful as you prepare budgets for the upcoming financial year.
Back in the 1990 recession a CIO from the oil industry said to us: "Ah well, IT has always been a bit of a boom and bust game" – referring to how IT and an organisation's fortunes are tightly linked. The boom and bust cycle is again evident in 2009, as organisations that are exposed to the equity markets, or have a heavy debt load, are winding back their levels of business investment – and their IT spend.