Articles written by Roger Lever

Review of Dance with Chance by Spyros Makridakis, Robin Hogarth and Anil Gaba. An interesting book looking at chance, the illusion of control and the paradox of control.

Mar 17, 2009 - Roger Lever

Grown Up Digital is the latest book from the bestselling author of Growing Up Digital and Wikinomics and this book describes how the net generation is changing the world.

Mar 5, 2009 - Roger Lever

Bestselling author of Getting Things Done has followed up with Making It All Work, a roadmap for personal productivity and long term planning that builds on earlier book.

Mar 4, 2009 - Roger Lever

Bestselling author Suzanne Bates has followed up Speak Like a CEO with Motivate Like a CEO. This book is focused on connecting purpose and people to achieve results.

Mar 3, 2009 - Roger Lever

Over the last four hundred years history is replete with manias, panics and crashes. Charles P. Kindleberger and Robert Aliber explore that history for modern lessons.

Mar 3, 2009 - Roger Lever

John Maynard Keynes as an economist and government advisor had a significant world impact through his ideas. Less well known is that he made a fortune from investing.

Mar 3, 2009 - Roger Lever

Online businesses must rank well on searches as many searchers never make it past page two of Google results or click on sponsored listings. This book helps to do that.

Mar 3, 2009 - Roger Lever

An interesting book that explodes myths about the current US monetary system. Web of Debt unravels the evolution of the money system and suggests a workable alternative.

Mar 3, 2009 - Roger Lever

Michael Lewis, best-selling author of Liar's Poker, has picked a collection of articles by various authors on modern financial crises starting with Black Monday in 1987.

Mar 3, 2009 - Roger Lever

Tesco Fresh & Easy problem analysis and intended action is apparently superficial. This example shows how to think better about a business problem to find a solution.

Feb 23, 2009 - Roger Lever

Gold supply peaked in 2001 and since then production has fallen on an annual basis. Demand is driven mainly by jewellery but gold investment rose sharply in 2008 by 64%.

Feb 20, 2009 - Roger Lever

Buying gold coins or gold bullion involves physical ownership of gold as opposed to paper-based investment via gold shares or ETFs. Consider pros and cons of ownership.

Feb 18, 2009 - Roger Lever

Warren Buffet is one of the world's most successful investors in the stock market if not the most successful investor. His investment style is simple but not easy to copy

Feb 12, 2009 - Roger Lever

Good project manager is essential to a successful project but being a successful project manager is more than the result of project management training; it takes ability.

Feb 11, 2009 - Roger Lever

IT Service Management with ITIL v3 has adopted the service lifecycle. The service lifecycle starts with the service strategy and is focused on satisfying customer needs.

Feb 2, 2009 - Roger Lever

Managers are managing people to successfully achieve business goals and to execute the business strategy. Critical to this is performance and line management of employees

Jan 30, 2009 - Roger Lever

IT service management has evolved from a process-centric view of ITIL v2 to a service lifecycle approach in ITIL v3 with a focus on strategy and customer desired outcomes

Jan 30, 2009 - Roger Lever

Starting a small business is a big step, whether it is using an existing small business or a new business. Some startup tips will help to avoid common early problems.

Jan 29, 2009 - Roger Lever

Managing performance with difficult people requires adaptability to recognise difficult behaviour and use an approach establishing rapport and achieving a desired outcome

Jan 29, 2009 - Roger Lever

News media release attention grabbing headlines about trillion dollar debts and deficits. Use country GDP figures to place these scary financial headlines into context.

Jan 28, 2009 - Roger Lever

Managing performance effectively requires clear performance objectives and measures of achievement. Writing SMART objectives is an essential component of good performance

Jan 28, 2009 - Roger Lever

Manage project risk by actively seeking potential project problems using a checklist approach. Having identified the risks then perform effective project risk management.

Jan 27, 2009 - Roger Lever

Presentation training is useful to develop presentation skills but nothing replaces practice. Effective presentations have targeted, simple, clear and repeated messages.

Jan 27, 2009 - Roger Lever

Project management metrics are important to the extent that they are used for project process improvement. The intent of project metrics is clear performance improvement.

Jan 27, 2009 - Roger Lever

Performance appraisals may require having a difficult conversation with an employee as part of managing performance. Be prepared, be calm and focus on the desired outcome

Jan 26, 2009 - Roger Lever

Project status reporting is a key communication tool for the project. Use a project report checklist to ensure that content is concise and complete for intended audience.

Jan 26, 2009 - Roger Lever

Global projects have a project scope that requires project managers to do more initial project planning to address cultural differences and key communication challenges.

Jan 26, 2009 - Roger Lever

The leadership development level of a project manager is important to a successful project. Effective leadership skills must be used as needed over the project lifecycle.

Jan 23, 2009 - Roger Lever

Employee performance management is about achieving business objectives, developing the capacity to perform and objectively appraising performance and areas of improvement

Jan 23, 2009 - Roger Lever

Every manager with line management responsibility must engage in employee performance management. Regularly do performance evaluations to identify performance improvement

Jan 23, 2009 - Roger Lever

Effective project reviews ensure the project is doing the right thing and doing things right. It acts as an early warning system of potential risks, issues and problems.

Jan 22, 2009 - Roger Lever

Leadership skills must be complemented by positive leadership behaviours. Anyone can show effective leadership behaviours but they are essential skills for good leaders.

Jan 22, 2009 - Roger Lever

A compelling analysis of the forces behind today's financial instability and economic crisis through an analysis of financial markets and the modern monetary system.

Jan 22, 2009 - Roger Lever

Managers must develop effective leadership skills to lead teams and achieve set objectives. Understand basic leadership styles and action-centred leadership for results.

Jan 21, 2009 - Roger Lever

Project managers must develop essential skills in project management to achieve successful projects. These are acquired through formal training and on the job training.

Jan 20, 2009 - Roger Lever

A balanced scorecard helps a strategy-focused organisation to align and focus on strategic execution. Strategy maps visually describe the strategy using linked objectives

Jan 20, 2009 - Roger Lever

Project manager must deliver a successful project including key project document deliverables. Project planning must define system documentation tasks to build in quality

Jan 19, 2009 - Roger Lever

Project reports can cover a host of potential subjects such as product evaluation, feasibility study or performance assessment. The content must be planned and structured

Jan 19, 2009 - Roger Lever

Gold has long held a special place in history as a store of wealth and as a global currency. Buying gold physically can be either by gold coins or gold bars or bullion.

Jan 18, 2009 - Roger Lever

Introducing an electronic document management system into the business can lead to a number of business problems. Understanding these many pitfalls helps to avoid them.

Jan 16, 2009 - Roger Lever

Regular project reporting will finish at the end of the project with a final project report. A project summary report must tell what was achieved and what is outstanding.

Jan 16, 2009 - Roger Lever

Project planning is the essential task of a project manager; if the planning is wrong everything is wrong. The result is a project plan, a blueprint for future action.

Jan 16, 2009 - Roger Lever

EDMS provides many core capabilities as part of a platform that is able to integrate other complementary technologies to bring additional functionality and capabilities.

Jan 15, 2009 - Roger Lever

Building and developing a performing project team often goes through group development stages identified by Bruce Tuckerman: forming, storming, norming and performing.

Jan 15, 2009 - Roger Lever

Solving the business need to manage documents with an EDMS led to the idea of other content types like web or rich media (image, video and audio) using the same approach.

Jan 14, 2009 - Roger Lever

Effective project teams are made by combining skills, experience, motivation, teamwork and sense of urgency into a clear project structure and set of accountabilities.

Jan 14, 2009 - Roger Lever

Project planning must identify project tasks at a level of detail allowing a project manager to capture all significant tasks and so ensure a comprehensive project plan.

Jan 13, 2009 - Roger Lever

Managing electronic documents is much easier with a dedicated electronic document management system (EDMS). Business benefits for an EDMS are both tangible and intangible

Jan 13, 2009 - Roger Lever

Business needs to create and manage many electronic documents and consequently experience various document management problems such as where to find the current document.

Jan 12, 2009 - Roger Lever

Detailed project planning is a necessary step for a successful project. It is important to capture all project tasks at a level of detail that avoids future surprises.

Jan 12, 2009 - Roger Lever