My experience of organisations facing a challenge is that they want rapid progress on the most urgent and important opportunity to improve. However, identifying those opportunities can be difficult. For...
Prior to working at Clarasys, I ran a sales operations team at a large telecoms organisation. I supported staff there during the merger with a slightly smaller, but still complex,...
Digitisation has created a power shift in the customer’s path to purchase. The client now has more control than ever before and the sales role is increasingly complex. Information on...
As a member of numerous sports teams during my life, I have experienced the joy of successful groups and also endured the pain of a few dysfunctional ones. Upon reflection,...
The challenge The Prince’s Trust has to be able to financially forecast and plan with the same urgency and accuracy as any large corporation. It was therefore vital that they...
Agile has become one of the buzz words of the last year with organisations moving towards an agile approach to help with problem solving and projects within their businesses during...
As we grow, it is important that we remain competitive. We can achieve this by remaining operationally efficient and ensuring the timing of our investments are spot on. We continually...
Competitive advantage is a wonderful thing. It can lead to increased revenue, reduced costs, wealthier shareholders and happier customers. These are common benefits of a truly differentiated product, a business...
Following on from our graduate training, a few months ago a team of us spent six weeks on a pro-bono project at a leading UK-based charity. The Prince’s Trust is...
I spent this morning planning a holiday and increasingly recognised how much agile principles I use day to day at Clarasys influence what I do with my personal time. So,...
Many businesses use the Agile method during the build phase. Clarasys Agile Method (CAM) takes this one step further and applies the principles of Agile to every phase of a...
You’ve made the decision to go agile. What does that mean? Agile is no longer a ‘new’ concept; Agile methods are increasingly well defined and the benefits are more widely...