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Nov 4, 20201 min read

0% Email – Yeah baby!

I am a happy man. last week, during a normal working week, I dealt with 0% email. A landmark achievement. I really dislike email.. a...

Jul 15, 20203 min read

An update on Covid19 trends

Now that Covid19, social distancing and the frequent washing of hands is well embedded in society, businesses are turning their attention...

Apr 22, 20201 min read

WfH – A step change in acceptance

now that most businesses have experienced a good period of working from home following lockdown, there are 5 key trends that are being...

Apr 1, 20202 min read

“If you need to be right before you move, you will never win”

What a brilliant quote “”If you need to be right before you move, you will never win”. Michael Ryan, (WHO Health Emergencies Programme)...

Mar 27, 20202 min read

Prosci’s ADKAR to be renamed NKAR for a while.

Before our friends at Prosci get all jittery – No, clearly, I am not serious, but there is a valid observation to be made here. We know...

Mar 26, 20201 min read

“If you’re working from home – at least get dressed on the top half”

Some useful tips based on 20 years of working from home, the key one is to use video more, but make sure you at least get dressed on the...

Mar 26, 20202 min read

Covid-19: A lesson in project governance.

This virus has taught us many things, that we aren’t really prepared for a global pandemic, that working from home is largely possible...

Mar 23, 20201 min read

Free Online Microsoft Teams Training for Everyone

Great title right? And I claim no responsibility of providing the training, all I want to do is point new Teams users in the right...

Mar 20, 20201 min read

Webinar: Covid-19 – Deploying Teams Rapidly and Safely

If you want to know top tips and practical guidance on deploying Teams rapidly and safely, and without creating a mess to clear up later,...

Mar 17, 20203 min read

Covid-19: A real opportunity for business change!

There is no doubt that Covid-19 is causing headaches for organisations across the world. Organisations that don’t currently entertain...

Jan 20, 20202 min read

Change Management is not fast enough for today’s tech

Change Management alone is struggling to keep up with the pace of cloud services. The tech world has been changing for many years and at...

Oct 18, 20192 min read

The Right to Disconnect?

A BBC article popped up in my feed today about ‘The Right to Disconnect’. Article In case you don’t want to read the article, the general...

Jan 31, 20193 min read

Do you measure success?

“What does success look like?” It is a phrase used in many a project meeting, but what does that really mean? An organisation might be...

Oct 17, 20182 min read

Technology Projects & Change Management

Blah, Blah, projects not blah about blah technology any more blah… but things are really starting to change… and at some pace! As...

Oct 3, 20183 min read

Teams – Will it kill the RFP?

At Modality Systems we are seeing a significant number of Requests for Proposals being issued around Teams. Anyone who has followed my...

Jul 16, 20182 min read

Teams Road Trip

I’m currently sat in the airport before heading over to New York and Boston to have a series of workshops with clients about intelligent...

Jul 11, 20182 min read

“… and it wasn’t a compromised way of working”

I’ve been using the Lync and SfB mobile clients for many years now, and they have been ok, a bit ‘meh’ in places and they normally will...

Apr 19, 20183 min read

Skype for Business sucks! (well not really)

Alright, I lied, it does not suck, it is a great tool that has helped businesses change their ways of working, to become more flexible...

Jan 15, 20182 min read

What is Office 365 exactly? Or ‘Ooh Look – Teams!’

I recently had a scoping call with a client, the conversation went something along the lines of this: Client: I want to go Office 365 Me:...

Oct 31, 20164 min read

Cloud PBX is nearly a year old…

When Cloud PBX was launched nearly a year ago, the reaction was mixed. Some moved quickly to rubbish the development, some waited...