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Gail La Grouw is a leading authority in Strategic Performance Improvement, based in Auckland, NZ.

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Change Management

The Role of Change Networks

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

The world is fast becoming  densely connected,  introducing both new promise and new peril.
With data flowing openly across most international borders, consumers have become creators, and new innovation, risks and news cascade through the system immune to local politics. For organizations to prevent innovation turning from promise to peril, they need to implement new strategies, [...]

vSphere – Changing the Face of IT

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

The role of IT managers is changing. Changing from selecting boxes and pipes that run the business transactions and communications to selecting and negotiating IT service contracts, managing SLA’s and seeking out new technologies to boost business performance.
Today, 75% of IT budgets are spent on keeping the lights on. This is severely restricting allocation for [...]

BI May Be Sleep Solution For Executives

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Recently BusinessWeek published the 10 top things that keep business leaders awake at night. So naturally, I thought I would offer my view of the top solutions to these problems as they relate to The Logical Organization.
Top 8 Sleep-Killers
The top eight issues keeping business leaders awake at night include:

“the constant pressure to meet and beat [...]

Wake Up, Change is Happening Now!

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

There is a common misconception that change is happening faster. Yet in reality, the change signals are often visible on the horizon well before they become visible in mainstream business. Change is like a chameleon that changes as it moves through its own lifecycle:

Single Event – It starts with a single event,
Isolated Events – It [...]