Colin Beveridge

“One person’s vision of reason often appears to another as treason” - Colin Beveridge ... (more)

Three Years on the Helter Skelter

Progress on the web has been running at break-neck speed for so long that we have become accustomed to the helter-skelter pace of development and we rarely get the time to look back and reflect on our journey, from where we were to where we are. Nevertheless, I was recently asked by Brinley Platts to answer an interesting question: How has your working life been changed by technology over the past three years? Well, my working routine has changed significantly over the past three years, due largely to the accelerated functional development of social media tools and the ubiquity... (more)

"short-term Policy drivers can never be satisfied by an IT-centric approach. Wake up and smell the…"

“short-term Policy drivers can never be satisfied by an IT-centric approach. Wake up and smell the embalming fluid” - colin beveridge ... (more)

a cure for corporate dyslexia?

There are none so blind as those who will not see. But there are also those who simply cannot see the wood for the trees, which is why so many organizations unknowingly suffer from a severe form of corporate dyslexia: Systems Blindness. How can we diagnose, treat and cure this damaging and expensive syndrome that cripples effectiveness and long-term viability? Diagnosis What is Systems Blindness? It’s the inability to recognise, clearly define and manage the various systems that constitute the organization. Symptoms include: difficulty in effecting change; duplication of effort an... (more)

change has always been hard

For those of us who would like things to be different, perhaps we should pay less attention to methodologies, such as PRINCE and PRINCE2, and pay more attention to the author of The Prince. My thanks to Fernando Francisco Lemos Filho for this insightful quote that still rings true across five centuries: “…there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by t... (more)