The Covid pandemic has brought with it many changes, amongst them the most significant change that will long impact the fabric of society is the ability to work from home. Flexible working was already making a headway in the Digital age, however with necessity being the mother of invention and Home working required following the …
“The global economy needs 25 million new project professionals by 2030, due to economic growth, an increase in the number of jobs requiring project management-oriented skills and retirement rates, a new report finds. To close the talent gap, 2.3 million project managers and changemakers will be needed to fill these roles every year to keep …
Organisations might face a skills shortage by 2030 for Project managers Read More »
I was shocked when I read a story about Lady Gaga’s dog walker (friend) being shot 4 times in the chest while walking her 3 French bull dogs last week. The muggers kidnapped 2 of her dogs while a 3rd one ran away to hide. Lady Gaga gladly paid the $100K medical bill for the …
Back in 2008 when we started writing a blog for GOX there were 2 articles about on how to effectively manage teams remotely. http://goxglobal.com/managing_teams/ . Those articles were written in the context of an organisation outsourcing IT to a third party based remotely. What we have experienced in the last 6 months takes remote working …
As of April 24th 2020 the Corona Virus has spread around the world to over 200 countries with 2.7 million confirmed cases and tragically 191.000 have died. The world population is 7.8 billion and it grows with 83 million annually. So during the Corona Virus outbreak since Dec 2019 the world population grew by 33.2 …
Covid-19…….The bomb that decimated 195 million jobs and potentially millions of lives Read More »
Many techno visionaries have proposed that a Universal Basic Income is essential to address the fact that Automation and Artificial Intelligence will likely replace most of the mainstream jobs in the future. Elon Musk is a vocal proponent of this as is Mark Zuckerberg, the latter seeing “universal basic income as a way to inspire …
Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Universal Basic Income. Read More »
Japan is the most overworked workforce in the world and yet they have one of the lowest productivities. 30% of organisations in Japan expect their workers to clock up an additional 80 hours per month of overtime, so let’s just think about that for a second. So you are already required to work statutory 40 …
As quoted on IT proportal “Cybersecurity continues to be the number one “external concern” for CEOs, regardless of their industry. That’s because the number of cyberattacks is increasing every year –with hackers attempting to break into a computer “every 39 seconds on average.” The annual costs of these attacks is expected to reach an incredible …
IT project management has its challenges around methodology, what processes and framework to follow and how to mobilise the people and stakeholders to get the job done. Imagine for a second if someone came to you and said. I would like you to organise 153.000 people, 6,330 ships, 10,440 air-planes to perfectly align everyone within …
I like to sometimes look back at old news stories to check for predictions and see how far off or close did the journalist or researcher get their prediction. According to BBC back in 2011 (8 years ago) Cyber Crime cost Britain £27 billion. Here is an extract from article “Cyber crime costs the UK …