There was a time, Martyn Richard Jones
When absolute discretion was an essential maxim in the relationship between a liberal professional (doctor, banker, solicitor, architect, etc.) and their clients, but times have changed. They are continuing to transform at an ever-increasing pace.
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Written by Martyn Richard Jones
2026 Mix
Strategic fit express the degree to which an organization is matching its resources and capabilities with the opportunities in the external environment.
Matching occurs through the practice of pre-strategy analysis.
That said, it is very easy to fall into the trap of oversimplifying high-level concepts and overstating the intricacies and interdependencies of strategic-fit factors. (more…)
Martyn Richard Jones
Remaster for 2026
I am a sceptic. Part of the awkward squad of troublemakers.
People who ask questions and who won’t stop asking.
People who won’t take bullshit for an answer.
People who are not preprogrammed to unquestioningly follow specific paths.
But to question everything.
Such as, “What the feck’s that all about then?” (more…)
Martyn Richard Jones
A remake for 2026
Sometimes I get asked in to support the manager of a failing project.
Most of the time I get to take over a failing project, with or without the previous manager’s involvement.
Occasionally I am called in to act as a Project Manager for clients who have brought in Systems Integrators and Management Consultants to do most of the project work.
The IT business suffers a malaise, it also affects other businesses. In IT, like in other lines of business, much of what has been made is eventually sidelined and forgotten. If it was ever on the radar in the first place. (more…)
Strategy and Market forces – Get your ducks lined upLet’s now take a brief look at my ‘nine competitive dimensions’ model.
This model will be familiar to some who will readily connect with the inclusion of government as an environmental dimension.
We analysed all the big data and discovered that the biggest reason for IT project failure is people – Big Data Informs…
We had failed at Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Core Competence, and quite a few other things, so some bright spark decided to give Big Data a shot.
The first task was to identify the reasons for IT project failure globally.
Martyn Richard Jones
2026 Remaster
The problem with Data Warehousing is that at a superficially high level, it is very easy to explain, and it’s quite impressive that this superficially high level is all that a lot of people need in order to do data warehousing their own way.
Martyn Richard Jones
I wrote a piece titled “Mugged in Data Hell.”
It told the story of a CIO who was hoodwinked, cajoled, bullied, bribed and patronised into doing the wrong things, continuously.
As my mate Bill said, “It packs big punches, and doesn’t hold back with the shit-kicking truth”.