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How do you join up strategy with what’s on the ground?

How do you join up strategy with what’s on the ground?

This was a question i heard someone ask on stage at a conference the other week. There was no answer after the question by the way. Why is it an important question? It may help to start here, in case you're not convinced it's important. Joining strategy with the front...

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Are you still driving ‘Right First Time’?

Are you still driving ‘Right First Time’?

As long as I can remember, 'Right First Time', or RFT for short, has shown up as a measure of quality/efficiency/effectiveness in operational departments. Most of the time it's an easy to understand percentage and the concept is pretty straight forward to get your...

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Are you leveraging all of your innovation opportunities?

Are you leveraging all of your innovation opportunities?

After a couple of conversations I've had over the past few weeks and a bit of reflection on the utility event in May, I'm still struggling to move past this and so i thought i'd give it some more thought and capture a few more reflections. Innovation is a term that...

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How are you thinking about your skills shortage?

How are you thinking about your skills shortage?

"I don't have a skills shortage". Maybe not yet but you probably will soon enough.Having recently attended the utility week live event over a couple of days, there was never going to be any other topic than the one that I was invited to sit on the panel for, and not...

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How much focus are you putting on ‘Team’?

How much focus are you putting on ‘Team’?

A while back i started to have a look at Lencioni's 5 dysfunctions and wrote some thoughts down. After a number of conversations this past week relating to some of the ideas in his model, i went and found my scrawlings and decided to drop them in here. They go back to...

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How healthy is your Organisation?

How healthy is your Organisation?

Having been involved in a few conversations and undertaking a fair bit of learning around this subject recently I thought I would capture a few thoughts. A challenge I keep hearing over and over from C-suite level leaders relates to the recruitment and retention of...

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Will the big stick make Customer Experience better?

Will the big stick make Customer Experience better?

Having seen an Ofwat update in February around 'Customer', I thought it worth bringing this to a conversation as I'm sure everyone has seen it and has their own thoughts around it.Here’s the update in case you haven’t seen it… In summary though... "From today (12...

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5 common themes in Water Company AMP plans

5 common themes in Water Company AMP plans

Over the past week or so I've spent a fair bit of time delving into water companies annual reports and 25-30 business plans. After a while they all seem to merge into one another. It would be no surprise that a lot of what is laid out is very similar, after all we are...

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Are your people giving you their all?

Are your people giving you their all?

This time out, I decided to write some thoughts down around engagement, simply because over Xmas I met up with a good friend who has been operating as a senior leader for decades in various companies. He said something to me that struck a cord around this, he said…...

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