This blog is my brain dump in which I occasionally share my thoughts, insights or great stuff I’ve found elsewhere on the web that is related to business.  Its purpose is twofold:

• clarify my thoughts and stimulate discussion around the different trends which are impacting every business leader, day in, day out;
• Inspire fresh thinking and give new insights on issues that interest me.

About me
I’m a business focused architect, consultant, analyst with experience in many different aspects of business, particularly in Financial Services.  Core capabilities include

• business development
• presales, presales management, bid management
• offering (product) portfolio management
• innovation management,
• business analysis
• business process modelling and re-engineering
•  business case engineering.

Oh, and experience of development too.

Specific in-depth expertise includes:

• Payments and cards: the processes, the challenges, the functional areas and solutions from multiple providers
• Retail banking, from channel to transactional processing.
• Productivity with Microsoft solutions, and augmenting the value of out of the box with best practice and deployment principles
• Cloud strategy, from private to public and hybrid, the business case and how to achieve the benefits of cloud without betting the business on it.

I’d describe my key attributes as:

• A leader able to inspire teams to close deals, initiate delivery and deliver
• Credible and able to build trust relationships quickly
• Confident, enthusiastic evangelism for the Right Thing
• Can do attitude – going the extra mile to meet client needs
• Ambitious and driven to succeed
• Business acumen with technical excellence