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The NHS. Why Can’t We All Help Find the Savings That Are Needed?

Posted by peter.doughty on Aug 12, 2011

I was visiting a friend in Coronary Care this week and in talking to the nursing team on the Unit was struck by how much even here they felt touched by the confusion and concerns that flow from the scale of change now being proposed for the NHS.

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When is a little ‘Yin’ better than a lot of ‘Yang’?

Posted by peter.doughty on Jul 26, 2010

In a recent issue of the PWC Technology Forecast, Tom Degarmo identifies the huge opportunity for organisations of all sizes to bring together the yin of variable versatile human processes with the yang of structured repeatable work processes (

Tags: change, enterprise 2.0, lean six sigma, management, organizational change management
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Transformation From The Trenches - The Reality!

Posted by peter.doughty on Mar 11, 2010

When you have worked in senior management for nearly 20 years for “the world’s largest technology company”, particularly one whose tagline is “Invent”, you get to carry more than a couple of scars from the realities of organisational transformation.

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