IBM Global Business Services activities are growing rapidly in the UK and needs more good senior staff with experience of leading projects that involve complex systems integration. If you are interested in being considered for one of these posts, please get in touch with me. (I have a personal interest in that anyone I refer …
Tag Archives: management
Matrix management
I have worked with matrix management for many years now, so much so that I am surprised by others not used to its complexities and confusions. I do find it strange though in my part of IBM how I can be directly responsible for eight staff who I have never met, do not work with, …
Yet another photography user group on the web
There are a huge number of photography/photographer user groups on the web. These vary from the highly-generic (e.g. holiday pics) to the very specialist (e.g. macro photography of a particular subject matter using a particular lens/camera combination for example). I am a member of many, a subscriber to a few, an occasional contributor to a …
Am I undereducated?
I find myself in an odd position. My wife has just started an Access course at a local college with the objective of starting at University on an undergraduate physiotherapy course the following year, at the same time as our older daughter is scheduled to go to University (unless she gets cold feet, or decided …
RT @pmtwits Good brief article…
RT @pmtwits Good brief article on future of project management: http://bit.ly/15pCnT
Not missed
A lot of colleagues had assumed that I had been off sick for a couple of days. A good number were concerned about me. Nice of them. I had of course let those most immediately impacted know I would not be around. I had had a few phone calls but not as many as expected. …
Updated my bros business website
I am still feeling off colour and worn out and my work laptop has failed again (arghh!!) so I took some time to see how my concentration was and updated by brother’s specialist book website to use the same content management system this site uses so that he can change the content of the site …
Kyle Mills Smoke Screen
An unexpected read that kept me up all night. I bought it cheap with a job-lot of other books. It is about a bit of a non-entity (our anti-hero) who has worked for a large tobacco firm all his life. In fact, he is tied to it as his grandfather was one of the founders. …