Mark D Nicholls Tag

Know more of our IMPLEMENTATION capabilities.   When we do Assurance work on Programs and Projects we sometimes encounter questions which reflect some misunderstanding of the role of Assurance. This is a few examples along with our answers. Q. The assurance team has the...

Know more of our IMPLEMENTATION capabilities.   If you are overseeing a Program or Project, is there a right time or a wrong time to perform Assurance? To answer that question, we have to consider a few things, such as: What is the...

Know more of our DIGITAL & ICT STRATEGY capabilities. Each of these topics: The ACC (Australian Crime Commission) Organised Crime and Drugs in Sport investigation, the NBN (National Broadband Network), and Big Data are all very topical right now.  So what...

Know more of our DIGITAL & ICT STRATEGY capabilities. What ever happened to e- ? You remember don’t you? The time when everything that had some technology element to it was referred to as e-something…. e-enabled, e-business, e-reader, e-marketing. How time moves on....

Know more of our DIGITAL & ICT STRATEGY capabilities.   There has been some recent debate about project performance/failure rates and the difference between public and private sector project delivery performance. Stakeholder complexity, procurement arrangements are valid differentiators in the public sector. I would...

Know more of our IMPLEMENTATION capabilities.   The latest ERP or IT implementation failure has hit the news. This one is from the US and cost the company an estimated US$440M! Apart from the attraction of a disaster story then why should this...

Know more of our DIGITAL & ICT STRATEGY capabilities.   Many of us are familiar with the boom bust era of the dot.coms. Unfortunately it was a step in the erosion of business credibility for the IT sector. That credibility is starting...