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2020 

Returning to the Office28 Oct 2020

Returning to the Office

With the further easing of restrictions in Victoria the speculation and conversation that started with the directive to work from home has shifted to questions about how will we know when it’s time to return to the office and importantly what will a return to the office look like? Microsoft and Twitter have made remote work a permanent…
Power BI Changes19 Oct 2020

Power BI Changes

If you are a small to medium size business using Power BI, Microsoft has announced a change to licensing that will be of interest, especially for businesses that want to leverage advanced analytic capability. Power BI has several licences each giving different capability and rights. Power BI Pro is by far the most popular choice…
An insight driven organisation6 Oct 2020

An insight driven organisation

An insight driven organisation will stand a far greater chance of maintaining their cashflow, keeping touch with customer base and keep a close eye on the operational metrics that will make the most significant contribution to their performance.
Microsoft gold partner status18 Aug 2020

Microsoft gold partner status

We are excited to announce Microsoft gold partner status. Thanks to our Business Agility and Data + Technology teams for all their efforts (and study) during these challenging times. We are excited to continue to build on a strong history of delivery across Microsoft’s Power Platform, Project Solutions, Dynamics and Azure Dev Ops to deliver…
Can we please stop manual project reporting6 Aug 2020

Can we please stop manual project reporting

There is little point arguing the rapid rate of change of project management practices in recent years. Yet, project reporting remains un-change and often antiquated. Time to change?
Designing for Transformational Change22 Apr 2020

Designing for Transformational Change

For an organisation to be able to deliver transformational change, thorough careful consideration and preparation are needed in the design of the change program itself. Simply picking a delivery methodology and a technology platform is not enough. A successful and truly transformative change program needs as much consideration into the how as the what. Yet the how it is often overlooked or neglected. In this article, I describe three important steps I have learned are critical in establishing a high performing digital transformation program.
Exco Partners acquires Core Consulting Group3 Feb 2020

Exco Partners acquires Core Consulting Group

We are excited to announce that Core Consulting Group (CCG) has formally joined the Exco Partners family. Since 2006, CCG has worked to mobilise, operate, manage, enhance and transform countless Project Management capabilities and Project Offices in organisations of all shapes and sizes. They have experienced first hand the emerging ways-of-working movement driving business agility…
Are your new ways of working, working?27 Jan 2020

Are your new ways of working, working?

Most organisations have in recent times undertaken significant self-reflection, analysis and in some cases external validation to define a new ‘way of working’ aimed at delivering a better customer and employee experience and improved business performance. This change varies from subtle tweaks to product development practices through to significant business re-organisations – brave, ambitious programs…