Recognising reactions to change, and responding to them

By Lucy Loh and Elisabeth Goodman This is the second in our series of blogs on “Enhancing Team Effectiveness in a time of change” based on our forthcoming publication in Business Information Review, and other publications and seminars in progress. [Note – If you like this blog you may be interested in purchasing a copy …

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Knowledge Strategy – one of two #NetIKX51 break-out discussions

By Elisabeth Goodman Knowledge Strategy was the theme of one of the two break-out groups at NetIKX’s 22nd September 2011 seminar led by Chris Collison. (For a more detailed account of the seminar itself, you may like to read Nicola Franklin’s NetIKX blog, or for a more cursory insight, Elisabeth’s NetIKX51 tweets.) A knowledge management …

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Enhancing Team Effectiveness in a Time of Change – an introduction

By Elisabeth Goodman and Lucy Loh Lucy Loh and Elisabeth Goodman have been preparing a few publications and seminars that deal with enhancing team effectiveness, strategies for personal and organisational change, and team development in the context of project management.  We thought it would therefore be timely to write a series of blogs picking up …

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Communities of Practice – Behaviours and Benefits

By Matthew Loxton1 Why do people participate in Communities of Practice2 (CoP)? An Applied Psychologist or a Knowledge Management person might tell you it is for the pure enjoyment and commitment to their identity as an expert in the field.  People want to contribute something to their field, to leave a mark, to better the …

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Lean Six Sigma and Project Management – triangles and (virtuous) circles

By Elisabeth Goodman and John Riddell On 6th July, we held a very enjoyable second iteration of our APM workshop on this topic in Norwich, having run it previously in Stevenage in May. As with the previous seminar, our audience ranged from people and organisations with very limited knowledge of Lean and Six Sigma, to …

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GSK ‘Working in Partnership’ Networking event – with One Nucleus

By Elisabeth Goodman(1) As a member of One Nucleus, I had the opportunity to join about 200 delegates from a mixture of Biotech, CRO, Biopharm, Technology, IT, Government, Academic and Business Consulting organisations at an open evening at GlaxoSmithKline’s Stevenage site on Wednesday 8th June, 2011 After an opening address by One Nucleus’s CEO, Harriet …

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Tweets from 18 May NetIKX / CLSIG seminar on making the most of Sharepoint

The NetIKX chair, Suzanne Burge (@suzanne_london), gave me the idea of collating my tweets @ecgoodman for further reference.  So here they are, in original form, and of course to be read in reverse order! #NetIKX49 another write-up of the #Sharepoint seminar @tfpl_Ltd http://ow.ly/50qBe #NetIKX49 Write-up of #Sharepoint seminar by @Valskelton http://ow.ly/50qy0 Noeleen Schenk doing final …

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NLP steps to success for individuals, teams and organisations

By Lucy Loh1 NeuroLinguistic Programming – being and becoming excellent You may already have heard about NeuroLinguistic Programming or NLP.  What is it all about, and what can it mean for you?  We introduce NLP here as it is an incredibly powerful vehicle for self development and change.  NLP looks at and models excellence and …

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2nd Business Process Excellence for Pharmaceuticals, Biotech and Medical Devices (2 of 2)

Business Process Excellence for Pharmaceuticals, Biotech and Medical Devices, The Brewery, London, April 2011 (2 of 2) John Riddell and Elisabeth Goodman, RiverRhee Consulting1 For part 1 of this blog see: 2nd Business Process Excellence for Pharmaceuticals, Biotech and Medical Devices (1 of 2) http://wp.me/pAUbH-40 Application to ‘other’ environments (1): biotech Simon Orchard, Vice President Biotech Operations …

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2nd Business Process Excellence for Pharmaceuticals, Biotech and Medical Devices (1 of 2)

Business Process Excellence for Pharmaceuticals, Biotech and Medical Devices, The Brewery, London, April 2011 (1 of 2) John Riddell and Elisabeth Goodman, RiverRhee Consulting1 This was the second of IQPC’s specialist conferences on this theme, and as last time2, many of those questioned by the authors were finding it of real value for learning about …

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