Dr Neil Miller

Task Management – The missing link

Project schedules provide a framework (WBS) of high level tasks. Progress on these tasks is regularly updated in terms of a percentage complete. Based on the percentage complete of each task, project managers look for exceptions to the project plan and ... Read >

Making It Easy to get the right things done at the right time with the right people

Doing the right things at the right time with the right people gets things done. But how can you be sure that you are doing this? In most workplaces, there are many planning, implementing and sustaining processes in place to ensure that work is done eff... Read >

Task Networking – The Future of Working Together

Task Networking makes it easy for people to work together to get things done. It provides a simple way for anyone from anywhere to plan and get tasks done with other people. Task Networking matches the way people naturally work together. In simple term... Read >

Driving Aid Strategies and Projects

One of the greatest challenges in facilitating aid strategies and projects is consistently engaging with key stakeholders and their team members in a timely constructive way. Most methods and tools focus on the needs of project teams and higher level gov... Read >

Turn Plans into Personal To Do lists

To Do lists are an excellent tool to keep track of what you need to do when and with whom. But how do you know what actions to enter into your To Do list and how do you keep your To Do list up to date? It is hard work to sort through many strategies, ... Read >

Manual To Do Lists don’t tell you what is happening

For many years, time management has focused on various methods of creating and completing personal ToDo lists. While a personal ToDo list helps you to know what you should be doing, it doesn’t provide the context you need to know what is happening around... Read >

Get Strategies Adopted

Getting strategies adopted by relevant people is usually critical for success. In some cases, a successfully adopted strategy may be essential for survival. Most strategies not only need to be done; but they need to be adopted by the people involved. C... Read >

Reducing the Costs of Introducing a Strategy

A strategy has two broad types of actions: the core actions that are an integral part of the strategy and enabling actions that are only required during implementation. Enabling actions include meetings, phone calls, emails, face to face coordination, c... Read >

Enablement is the key to strategy success

When implementing a strategy, you need to engage with all the people who need to contribute. However engagement is not enough. You also need to provide people with simple methods and tools that enable them to contribute in the best way. Most people are... Read >

Making it easy to contribute to a strategy

Many strategies fail when people are unable to effectively contribute, because they are unsure of what they need to do, when and with whom. Strategies are usually presented from the perspective of senior managers, who understand the context and what the... Read >

Managing Unanticipated Actions

When you start implementing a plan, it is common for additional actions to be required that were not anticipated during planning. Experience tells us that the way that these unanticipated actions are handled often determines the success of a strategy imp... Read >

Strategy Implementation: Governance is Essential

When implementing a strategy, the focus is usually on doing what needs to be done to get the strategy done. However governance is also required to ensure that the processes applied stay within the organization’s agreed business rules and norms. In add... Read >

Strategy Engagement with People

The effective implementation of strategies is critical to an organization’s success. However the methods and tools used to implement strategies are often poorly integrated. Consequently there is a large reliance on people interpreting what needs to be d... Read >

Ensuring that Meeting Actions are done

Communications are an essential part of working together. Meetings are commonly used for collaborative communications where things need to be agreed or decided. People can meet together at the same location or use technology from different locations. M... Read >

Planning is Important, but Implementing gets things done

No matter how good a plan is, if it is not effectively implemented it is of little value. There are many approaches to planning, but few include a simple way to implement the plan. In our workplaces, there are many different types of plans. Business p... Read >