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Let’s Stop Hammering Screws

29th July 2024

PRINCE2's Blind Spots: Important Lessons for Program Success In this updated article, Mentor CEO David Hilliard explains why PRINCE2 and...

Curious About the Hidden Biases Sabotaging Your Strategy Execution?

10th June 2024

In the first of a series of three articles, David Hilliard explores how management biases and blind spots in senior...

Embarrassing planning fails. What to do when plans go wrong

29th April 2024

This article reflects an actual client experience...

Program governance and the insights from the post office

Don’t wait for a crisis to expose the weaknesses in your program governance

31st January 2024

The recent revelations surrounding the Post Office's Horizon System Program Governance should send shockwaves through boardrooms everywhere. It is a...

The Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) issues red card to Home Office’s ESN programme

8th September 2023

The circus continues The Home Office's botched program to replace Airwave – the current emergency services communications network, with ESN continues...

UK Emergency Services Network fiasco — have we crossed the Rubicon?

15th August 2023

David Hilliard, CEO of Mentor Europe, asserts “it’s time to take a different approach” to the now eight years late...

Carry On Regardless

17th July 2023

Those involved in the Home Office's Emergency Services Network (ESN) programme to replace the network the emergency services rely on...

Uncovering the “Strategic Programs are all on track, everything is going to plan” delusion

13th July 2023

Everyone knows that strategic programs are the lifeblood of telecoms businesses, the delivery vehicle for major business milestones like network...

The Home Office’s Emergency Services Network (ESN) programme is a spectacular failure of governance

17th May 2023

It’s time to stop the madness and pull the plug on this programme now! Now may not be the best time...