October 02, 2015

Big Data - is it all that?

October 02, 2015/ Jeff Wolfin

In his book "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy", Douglas Adams posed the “Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything”. As many of you know, a huge super computer famously came up with the answer of 42. What less people might know is that this super computer also went on to say that the answer was meaningless. This popped into my head earlier this week as I was reading an article about Brentford Football Club. It was not a football story but one about ‘Big Data’ and a question as to whether or not it is the answer to all our prayers that some think it is.

January 08, 2015

If you are going to do it, do it right - Objective Setting

January 08, 2015/ Jeff Wolfin

It’s that time of year when many of us sit down and start the performance management cycle once again.

Now we could have an interesting debate about how appropriate the traditional performance management process is for the modern day business world. Is the Parent/Child dynamic, annual goal setting ritual and annual or bi-annual performance appraisal ‘fun fest’ really fit for purpose anymore? Hmmm! Some organisations have even abandoned the process altogether!

However on the basis that for the moment, many of us do participate in the process, we thought we would share some tools with you that you may find useful. They come from work we did with a client last year that in many ways was very revealing.

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