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I’ve just been analysing the findings from our survey of managers and knowledge workers. The 42 respondents provided a broad perspective from UK, Germany and the Carribean (MBA students – typically in middle and senior management positions).
Participants in our survey use Microsoft Office for around 20 hours a week and email for another 10-20 hours. They ...

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Peter Drucker said, “the unique contribution of management in the 20th century was the 50 fold improvement in the productivity of manual workers… …the most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is to similarly increase the productivity of knowledge work and knowledge workers“.
In our recent study, exploitation of existing systems and information ...

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We are pleased to release our latest research findings. In a survey of over 200 senior IT leaders in North East England, we asked what were the factors that get in the way of realising maximum benefits from IT investment.
The results were fascinating. To receive a free download of the summary report, .

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‘Benefits-led IT at Newcastle’ is a development programme for technical and project leaders within the Information Systems and Security (ISS) directorate.
This year-long programme engaged over 30 people (IT, academic and business colleagues)  in a series of 5 workshops and complementary action learning activities focused on getting more out of key IT-enabled projects and programmes.
Working with ...

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