Air.  It's a wonderful thing. Little did 18th century researchers like Joseph Priestly (1733–1804) and Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (1743–1794), who investigated the properties of air, know it would become a cooling medium for information technology (IT) in the 20th and 21st centuries.

The lessons we learn every day in our personal lives are often directly applicable to our business lives.  On a camping trip, for example, you have to prepare and make contingency to deal with accidents and incidents so that, when they do occur, they’re manageable. And so it is with projects.

It’s essential that you consider how service providers will interpret and use your procurement documents.

With timeframes to meet and the effort required to get tenders out the door, the less confusion for service providers, the better. After all, service providers are the primary audience of your document.

Whilst it would cause me great joy to spend a few paragraphs on the perils of debt, wallowing in countless examples of how it has ruined most people’s enjoyment of the 21st century, my attention is turned more directly to a particular type of debt and the effect that it has on organisations. That debt is time debt.