News and Articles
Welcome to
our website!
The world keeps changing – so must we. This latest update of our site
reflects the evolution of our practice … and our return to Canada. We
are still available for assignments in Australia
and New Zealand
– or anywhere else in the world for that matter – but our base
is where our expanding family is.
IT projects
fail to deliver
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According to the Ontario Auditor General … “In
Ontario today, approximately 40
percent [of projects] still fall short in some way” Ontario Special Task Force, July 2005
Companies are also facing increasing complexity in managing external
service providers, Gartner says. “While a single contract with a
single consultant may be easiest to manage, often a single consultant
can't supply all the expertise a company needs for a sizable information
systems project.”
The Australian IT Business -1 April 2003
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We agree
and so do our clients
In fact that's why Len has been promoting the concept of Project
Health-Checks. We
believe that our clients deserve an objective opinion to assess how well
their projects are tracking. The Office of State Revenue engaged Ashby Bachmann to perform a Stage-one Health-Check on their project to relocate
the State Debt Recovery Office from Parramatta
to Lithgow. The Health-Check resulted in a simple but far-reaching recommendation
which enabled the relocation to occur at the mandated time.
The disciplines of project governance have been well defined
for many years and qualified and accredited project managers abound, yet
the problems continue unabated.
Read Len's article on the Board's responsibility for project oversight, recently published in the newsletter of the Canadian Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD)
For a copy of the article click
here.
Emerging
issues
The greying population continues to leave the workforce in ever-increasing
numbers. Frequently, a huge amount of corporate knowledge leaves with them.
Ashby Bachmann has explored this knowledge management problem – and the
solutions – in a series of articles published in Image and Data
Management magazine.
IP² = Intellectual Property created and shared through the
Internet Protocol
Many organisations struggle with how to implement the concept of
'knowledge management' (KM). Some are using websites for storage
and retrieval of valuable corporate knowledge, but this has created
new challenges. Organisations still do not know what 'knowledge'
they have, where it resides, who wants it or what it is worth to
them or to their stakeholders. Therefore they are unable to effectively
deliver the Intellectual Property they do possess through the Internet
Protocol.
For a copy of the
article click
here
Children of the Revolution
Up to 50 percent of the world’s workforce will retire over the next
decade, but who’s prepared?
For a copy of the
article click
here
Mining Knowledge in the Organisation
Accessing knowledge from the minds and experience of the people creating and/or using
it, at the best of times, is usually very difficult but often critical to
business decisions. When they leave – capturing what the domain
expert knows can become an essential requirement for effective knowledge management
in many organisations. Here a few
tips on how to go about it.
For a copy of the
article click
here
Training
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The
following training sessions are being offered by Ashby Bachmann.
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"Contract
Management"
Developed by Ashby Bachmann for the University of Sydney’s Continuing
Education Division, this one or two day interactive course allows a diverse
range of participants involved with contract management functions to
understand the process, from initial tendering for services to contract
wrap up and process improvement. Customised for in-house presentation, the
content can cover specific issues, including out-sourcing, procurement
practices and negotiating strategies. Stay tuned to this space for details
on time and place or call for further information.
“Project
Health-Checks – what they are and how to do them”
Developed and delivered for a conference on Complex
Project Management, this one-day workshop covers the benefits and processes
involved in objective project assessments. Tailored to senior project
managers or line management responsible for project outcomes, the workshop identifies
the range of issues which conventional project management is frequently unable
to address and demonstrated how Project Health-Checks overcome the
obstacles.
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vendors, suppliers or publishers, therefore we
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