The most repeated advice about agile delivery is that every team should sprint and that a plan is the thing you're supposed to abandon. Neither survives contact with an Irish or north-west European organisation that has a funding gate in the last quarter, a procurement rule it didn't write, and one regulatory file that must […]
94% of civil servants in Ireland said they persevered when work did not go well, but only 47% said they felt inspired by their job, according to the 2015 Civil Service Employee Engagement Survey. That gap is the whole problem in one line. Perseverance is cheap to measure and easy to mistake for motivation: a […]
Debt-to-equity ratio = total debt ÷ shareholders' equity. The result is a multiple, so 1.5 means one and a half euro of debt for every euro of equity. A business owner preparing a loan application may have the balance sheet open and a calculator ready, yet still be unsure which liabilities to count. The bank […]
A spreadsheet is open, a case study is due, and one cell is waiting for a discount rate. A tutor wants a single percentage by Friday, or a project proposal has arrived with a rate nobody has justified. WACC is the average annual rate a company must earn on its investments to satisfy the people […]
You've got two people on your team who've gone quiet with each other. Nothing dramatic happened. One of them questioned a deadline in a group chat, the other replied with a single word, and since then every handover has taken twice as long as it should. You've already run through the options. Ignore it and […]
The new system is ready, the launch email has gone out, and the team has attended a demonstration. Yet a manager is still answering the same questions, colleagues are keeping their old records, and nobody seems certain who approves the next stage. The technology works. The working day doesn't. Change management training helps managers close […]
The most popular advice on how to value a business is also the most misleading. Owners are told to pick a multiple, apply it to last year's profit, and call the result a price. That shortcut ignores the three adjustments that move the answer: normalised profit, net debt, and the form of the sale after […]
The billing upgrade was approved at a Tuesday steering meeting and handed over by Friday. Nobody asked whether twelve weeks was realistic, whether the finance team had anyone free for testing in August, or who would tell the contact centre that invoice layouts were changing. That gap between an approved idea and a dated plan […]
Which decision do you want to own on a Tuesday morning? Most write-ups treat supply chain management jobs as isolated titles. Buyers buy, planners plan, warehouses pick. That reading hides the chain. One forecast becomes a purchase order, then a pick task, then a freight booking, then a quality hold, then a board conversation about […]
According to the Central Statistics Office adult education release, 34% of Irish internet users completed an online course in 2024, a 9 percentage point rise on 2023, and the split ran 38% of male users against 30% of female users. Digital study is already how many adults pick up work knowledge. That growth doesn't mean […]