http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/31/perseverance/ Thoughts on the confluence of business, change and technology. Areas covered include business intelligence, cultural transformation, business and IT alignment, business and IT strategy, project execution and social media. Sun, 20 May 2012 04:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/31/perseverance/#comment-4117 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 20:31:58 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2296#comment-4117 [...] of why climbs in bouldering are called problems and indeed a definition of bouldering, see Perseverance). Another plus is that many of these used plastic holds (manufactured by Sheffield’s Core [...]

]]> http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/31/perseverance/#comment-3304 Wed, 05 May 2010 08:34:13 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2296#comment-3304 [...] of my section on change management, I covered some of the themes that I introduced in my article Perseverance. In this I spoke about one of the types of rock climbing that I enjoy; bouldering. Bouldering is [...]

]]> http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/31/perseverance/#comment-2974 Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:03:17 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2296#comment-2974 [...] Staying with the area of rock climbing / business cross-overs, another previous article – Perseverance – highlighted the importance of this attribute in both areas. My aim is to take my own [...]

]]> http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/31/perseverance/#comment-2875 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:19:25 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2296#comment-2875 [...] when I wrote Perseverance, I quoted Beckett’s adage about failing better. This is not a bad way of looking at IT work. [...]

]]> http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/31/perseverance/#comment-2323 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:11:02 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2296#comment-2323 [...] problem (for an explanation iof why some types of climbs are called problems see my earlier article Perseverance). Sadly, though I made much more progress during my second session, I need to go back to finally [...]

]]> http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/31/perseverance/#comment-2041 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:25:54 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2296#comment-2041 [...] Perseverance [...]

]]> http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/31/perseverance/#comment-1640 Fri, 22 May 2009 17:07:36 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2296#comment-1640 [...] many bloggers (having recently posted articles relating to football [soccer], mountain biking and rock climbing, I find myself blushing somewhat at this point), but nevertheless goes on to make a very apposite [...]

]]> http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/31/perseverance/#comment-1616 Thu, 21 May 2009 13:17:19 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2296#comment-1616 [...] IT Business Edge, mountain biking in Mountain Biking and Systems Integration and rock climbing in Perseverance), this piece draws on another of my passions outside of the business, technology and change arena; [...]

]]> http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/31/perseverance/#comment-1558 Tue, 19 May 2009 15:20:22 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2296#comment-1558 [...] analogy (I have developed quite a taste for these, having recently penned artciles relating both rock climbing and mountain biking to themes in business, technology and change).     A case [...]

]]> http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/31/perseverance/#comment-1370 Tue, 12 May 2009 13:45:25 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2296#comment-1370 [...] from my experiences in various of the sports that I enjoy. The first article in this series was Perseverance, which compared the degree of effort required to succeed in rock climbing with that necessary in [...]

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