05/21/15
Graduates: Four Practical Tips To Land Your Dream Job
For more on Options’ 2015 graduate scheme click here. Three out of every four...
Read more08/05/14
Taking Bets on Talent Over Experience: A Q&A with the Belfast Telegraph
I recently did a Q&A with the Belfast Telegraph that covered a wide range...
Read more03/28/14
The NISPO II tender and warm summer days
Many business people have a series of metaphors that shape how they think about...
Read more04/15/13
Every manager about to embark on a “Boil the Ocean” IT project should read...
The work we’re doing over at Options touches on something very close to my...
Read more11/15/12
When margins are getting squeezed it’s time for Mr. Nasty!
Somewhere along the line I picked up a keen appreciation of cost...
Read more03/08/12
It’s all about love
We had a big day yesterday. First, I delivered the keynote address at the 11th...
Read more08/09/11
Attitudes to Opium (spelt OPM)
This is a post I’ve been drafting, in one form or another, for some years now...
Read more06/28/11
Do the ‘Little Leagues’ better prepare you for the ‘Big...
I happened to have stumbled onto an interesting contrast in cultures when...
Read more06/21/11
Power Growth Through Innovation
Back in the Wombat days our mission was to grow the business organically while...
Read more06/15/11
The best bit of business advice I ever got
All the recent ‘toing and froing’ in Northern Ireland’s blog space and...
Read more05/31/11
Valuations – Science, Art or Negotiation by David Kirk
It’s been an interesting spring, and not just in Tunisia, Egypt and...
Read more03/15/11
‘Team Northern Ireland’ is missing the point; focus on Wall Street not...
It has to be said that Northern Ireland did not put up a strong...
Read more01/17/11
The Opening Bell for Lough Shore Investments
Lough Shore Investments is up and running, less than twelve months after I left...
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