collaboration

Personal productivity vs. Group collaboration

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Fri, 01/21/2011 - 22:10

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Collaboration - you know what it is but it is hard to manageIn a previous blog, I looked at some of the tools available for group collaboration, using the Internet. We concluded that for a team of admin staff in a GP surgery, Producteev.com was the best tool. It is simple to use, colourful, and much better for assigning tasks than using Outlook. But it has some severe limitations.

The best Web based tools for productivity and innovation (3)

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Thu, 12/30/2010 - 12:54

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Producteev.comWe're trying out some web based tools for a small business, to help it be both more productive on the day-to-day work, and more innovative, on the new opportunities.  we identified Zoho projects (Xmas logo)Producteev.com which is an easy-to-use delegated task list, and Zoho Projects, a low-cost Web based project management tool, and part of a major suite of business productivity tools.

Make a busy team more productive (2)

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Thu, 12/30/2010 - 12:20

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Collaboration is everythingSo we have a selection of product of the key and collaboration tools: GTD tools and project management tools, all web based.  How do we decide which of the ones to look at in more detail?

How to make a busy team more productive

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Thu, 12/30/2010 - 11:40

Productivity - how can we improve it?Aim – to improve productivity through better collaboration

GP surgeries are just like small businesses, and in the middle of some of the most dramatic changes in 60 years. We have falling income and rising demand; we need to continue to provide the basics, and look at better ways to deliver healthcare and innovate.

I’m looking for a tool so my team delivers innovation along with being more productive in their day job.

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PwC Report on the Current State of Project Management

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Fri, 05/17/2013 - 10:44

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PwC Project Management ReportPwC found that successful companies are getting more mature in their project management ability.  This raises the game – successful companies have lower costs from fewer failed projects, and less successful companies have to work harder to catch up.  There are some important lessons to take this report for everyone – Read more…

Joy instead of tedium

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 21:04

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The Office

Every office has them - the tasks that have to be done that nobody likes doing.  Whether it's the audit, the wages, standard letters, whatever it is - someone has to do it and it feels like a waste of time and money.

Why should you care?

So you employ somebody, so why do you care about how tedious the task is? Well they are costing money, to do something that could be done far more effectively.

Learning from the Past

Submitted by HugoM on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 20:27

Evidence for service improvement

Many public service changes have little basis in evidence. Their success (or otherwise) does not appear to depend on how 'good' the policy itself is, but rather on how it has been implemented. This relies on staff attitudes and relationships. My research falls into a number of broad categories: finding out what is currently happening; what people think about it; and what people think it will mean.

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Consumer Price Index (CPI) Calculator for SROI

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Tue, 04/16/2013 - 10:05

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CPI components

When calculating a Social Return on Investment (SROI) evaluation or SROI forecast , sometimes you have to rely on published figures from reports.  But if these are from a few years ago, then they probably need adjusting for inflation.

There are calculators on the web to do this for you, but I found them cumbersome and it was difficult to keep a record of what calculator I'd used, and how, for which value - auditability and transparency is vital for SROI.  So here's a spreadsheet to do this properly!

Leadership and Margaret Thatcher

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Tue, 04/09/2013 - 14:19

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Margaret Thatcher - a greta leader?

Leadership is one of those characteristics that most people recognise, some people claim, and nobody manages to explain.

We can identify the great leaders from the past and present, and talk about their characteristics, but it is too easy to overlook the hundreds of thousands of people who claimed to be leaders or tried to be leaders, and who shared these characteristics.  We need to identify what the great leaders have that the failures or mediocre leaders don’t have, or we will be no nearer to identifying the characteristics of leadership.

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