About this blog

The History

I started writing this blog back in April 2007, initially it was the idea of a friend of mine but my publisher also suggested I write a blog, to support the launch of my book which was due to be published later that year.  Today, you can see that is has grown way beyond its original purpose.  My Blog has a loyal readership from people all over the world, with a wide variety of backgrounds.

The blog was originally aimed at my fellow interim managers but very quickly I realized that the content I was writing, was written from the view point of an interim manager and was not necessarily aimed at  them.  My emerging readership, turned out to be managers, business leaders, MBA students, project managers, change mangers, in fact just about anyone who concerned themselves with how business is run, should be run and could be run.

Why the new name 'Changing Business'?

The world is changing, business is changing.  For many companies, the way business is conducted has changed almost beyond recognition thanks to the emergence of the internet and the integrated mobile access technologies.  The applications (tools) we use to communicate and carryout business transactions are becoming much simpler to use and at the same time much more sophisticated.  Over the last ten years completely new business models have been created - where companies that choose to give away their core products for free have become some of the richest players on earth.

In all this change, one thing remains, people.  People need to be found, recruited, educated, motivated, re-motivated, removed, replaced, re-defined, re-aligned.  Luckily, business is still about people. Luckily our shareholders are still human (even though it might not seem so, sometimes)! ;-) 

In this 'Brave New World' the role of the Change Manager is becoming ever more important.  Today's change manager needs to be a true professional, needs to know both the theory and the reality. Change is about managing change (making sure things happen in a different way) and not the other way around (trying to get control on what is changing).  In this sense the effective change managers have moved more towards project management (getting the job done) and away from  consultancy.

In this blog, I share my observations, from my change manager perspective.  I cover the trivial to the complex, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, sometimes both - but (I hope) my content is always real, relevant, tangible, pragmatic, useful, interesting and entertaining.

How long will I keep this blog up?

For as long as people keep reading and responding, for as long as it has purpose.