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Ireland’s IT services sector is consolidating fast. Most buyers judge a target on strategy, the balance sheet and the customer list. Far fewer ask how well the two businesses will…

Ireland’s IT services sector is consolidating fast. Most buyers judge a target on strategy, the balance sheet and the customer list. Far fewer ask how well the two businesses will…

My view on what Ireland’s AI plans mean for anyone running a business, and how I’d approach it.

What Ireland’s national digital and AI strategy and Enterprise Ireland’s Make AI Work guide say for businesses.

Imagine being handed a thousand-piece jigsaw with no picture on the box. You’d still make progress, but sooner or later you’d find sections that wouldn’t join up. That’s how most…

The question “Who designed your organization?” sounds as though it should have a straightforward answer. In a young business, the answer might appear to be the founder. In a larger…

Concurrent Management addresses one of the fundamental problems of traditional organisations: functions acting independently and creating business silos. It provides the means to manage those functions as co-dependent parts of…

Most organisations are built around a sensible assumption: hire strong people, organise them into strong functions, put capable managers in charge, and you should end up with a strong business.…

Why cross-functional alignment needs a system, not a personality trait Most organizations treat collaboration as a personality trait — something certain people are just good at. Structured collaboration treats it…

We’re recently designed and delivered an integrated performance dashboard for a client — a single executive view rolling up the full Lead to Cash process end to end: marketing, sales,…