There is a constant flow of new financial regulation which is now becoming more complex and intrusive. This regulation is moving further away from pure commission (where an individual or business is proactively committing a crime) to omission (where an individual or...

Sometime last year I read an article which passionately put forward the case that all information and data should be free to anybody who wants it. (By “free” I mean that there is no material cost to access it, it can be easily accessed via a web-site and can be edited...

For anybody who has been working in Financial Services over the past decade, it would have been impossible to miss the tidal wave of new regulations being created and implemented.  This wave will likely continue for the foreseeable future.    Just to be...

The Asset Management industry is a complex global industry that impacts all of us in some way (such as via savings, pensions, insurance, etc.) This means it is important the factors impacting and shaping this industry are fully understood. Therefore Paul Taylor in his...

I am delighted to say that I will be a panel member for the above event called "Navigating the AI Revolution: A New Era for Consultancy and Business Change". PLEASE CLICK HERE IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND

All changes need some element of pre-planning or preparation before the Change Team can start the change ‘properly’.  The old saying of “perfect planning prevents poor performance” is excellent advice when implementing change. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon...

I am delighted to say that I will be speaking at the above conference on "Digital solutions to revolutionise fund distribution" If you would like to attend then please click on the following link...

Multiple ‘change management’ models are currently cited as models for achieving successful organisational change. The most commonly cited models are Kotter's (1995) ‘Eight Steps in Leading Change’, the ‘ADKAR’ model (Hiatt, J (2006)) and Lewin’s three-stage model with...

There are a large number of formal structures that can track and identify whether a change project is progressing well or not so well in some cases. But some of these processes can be very bureaucratic, focused on detailed data and do not often focus on the big...

 The business world is constantly developing new products and services to support its customers. For example, in the technology world, there have been developments around Cloud Computing, Big Data, Machine Learning, etc over the past few years.  Likewise, there are...