Hopes and Fears for a changing world
GPS mapping update. A map is useless unless you know where you are.
DHR SOAP, No Water, Added Instructions
Hopes and Fears for a changing world
After several years of practical exposure to AI-like systems and large language models, this article marks a deliberate pause: a moment to step back, reflect, and ask the difficult questions before diving deeper into formal research. It is not a conclusion, but a starting point ready for research. At its…
GPS mapping update. A map is useless unless you know where you are.
Staring out on this new road I wrote an article in 2021 about knowing where you are to be able to plan how to get where you want to be. This is a brief update of the intervening 5 years following my self published Strategic Aims. I have reached more…
DHR SOAP, No Water, Added Instructions
In this post you will find the tools required to develop strategic programme thinking yourself using my personal SOAP to give examples. It does not matter if you are a corner shop, individual, SME or something bigger. These are tried and trusted methods for generating clarity of purpose and being able to articuate that to a group of interested parties.
Delivering in Lockdown a Lessons Learned report
In March, I wrote an article ‘WOW I wonder if the BCP will hold up?’ with my thoughts on the challenges ahead and 6 predictions. In this article I will revisit those predictions and see what worked and what didn’t and also have a look at what I know now that I didn’t know then. Should be fun.
WOW I wonder if the BCP will hold up?
A case study into real example of ‘out of the blue’ risk and issue management and the importance of good governance structures for programmes. When you have a plan for anything in life the real skill of Programme and Project Management is in anticipating the threats and ‘what ifs’ to…
Excellent Project Management Tools – Part 1, Excel – no really
Most project Managers in the world have a love hate relationship with Microsoft Project (MSP). There are plenty of other systems out there to look at, a good number I have used in my time and they all have niches and in the main I always end up back at…
A map is useless if you don’t know where you are!
It’s the critical first step for any organisation or individual wanting to think seriously about the next steps in an evolution. Before I can develop the things I want to change and what I want them to change to we need to understand the starting point. I am a fifty…
Blog Post Number 1
The first post of any blog is always the most embarrasing 3 years down the line, my aplogies to my future self but this is for posterity. 42 DHR Solutions is born from 20 years experiance working in Project and Programme management across a wide range of market sectors in…