My Predictions On 10 Tech Trends For 2024
If like me, you’re business planning for 2024, I want to know where Tech is heading so we can prepare. Here are my predictions on the 10 Tech Trends for 2024: 1) AI: Not If, When2) AI Transparency3) ERP Turbo Charge: Where Edge Meets AI4) Bitcoin Rally5) Cyber Threats6) Innovation7) Project Management Delivering Innovation8) Strategic […]
Innovation Friday: Permanent data storage for cents
Every Friday I book coffee 🍵time with my team and we talk about innovation and new technologies. This week we’re looking at new ways to store massive amounts of enterprise data. Arweave leverages Moore’s Law-style declining data storage costs. Users pay for a few hundred years upfront (about half a cent per megabyte), and the […]
🚩ERP Project in Danger? 3 Red Flags You Can’t Ignore!
Jim Collins said it best in his book, hashtag#GoodToGreat.Get the right people on the bus and more importantly, get the right people in the right seats. If you’re not doing this, that’s just one of my 3 red flags for ERP projects. Red Flag #1Lack of detailed, integrated schedule. Not a list of tasks. A […]
Is Your ERP Project A Sydney Opera House Project Failure!
My current favorite book on project management is How Big Things Get Done by By Prof. Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner. Thanks Chris Jung, PMP for gifting me the book! The book has lots of great insights on why projects fail and how to fix them. Today I’m sharing learnings from the Sydney Opera House […]
What Can Tech Projects Learn From Guggenheim Museum?
In contrast to the disastrous project of Sydney Opera House (see my post from yesterday), the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, designed and built by architect Frank Gehry, is a much more than an spectacular museum of contemporary art in Bilbao, Spain. It’s also a successful project, delivered on time and 3% under budget. 🚀More importantly, it […]
Plan Slow, Go Fast – What Most Tech Projects Get Wrong ❌
Too often, tech projects rush the planning so they can get started quickly, build, configure, shovels in the ground 🏗️ This makes everyone happy and we see ‘progress’. But inevitably the project crashes into problems. The team is then firefighting, fixing things but then more things break and more fixing. So what do successful Tech […]
Innovation Friday: Iterative Planning
Every Friday I book coffee 🍵 time with my team and we talk about innovation and solving problems. Earlier this week, I shared how Iterative Planning is the key to successful Tech Projects. Why it works: Iterative Planning produces a detailed, reliable plan. With an iterative plan, build is far more likely to be smooth […]
What can Tech Projects learn from Heathrow Terminal 5? ✈️
It’s something we can all do. Heathrow Terminal 5 (T5) serves 10.5 million passengers a year and was one of the biggest construction projects in the UK. The project had 60,000 people working on it with a budget of US$5.4Bn. Like many big Tech Projects, big constructions projects often fail. But it was delivered on […]
