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People & Process

First Metre Working

Consultancy, Facilitation & Training

Only Connect . . .

Process Coaching

Client References

The MNS Approach

The Original and Finest Statement of Purpose

The Tetrad - a model for Economic-Quality

FlowMap Software

Adobe SVG Viewer

FlowMap SPC-Plus

FM4 Registration

FlowMap Freeware

A Concise History of Economic-Quality

A Business Process Management Primer

Requisite Variety

Cybernetics & VSM

Economic-Quality Performance Portal

DFC - An Introduction

Stafford Beer . . . unsung hero of organisational cybernetics

Homer Sarasohn . . . the man who made Japan successful

On Leadership : Stretching or Straining?

Work In Progress - Tribal or Viable Management?

80 Wise Minds of Business Organisation

IT Giant EDS - Poacher Turned Gamekeeper? (25 Nov 2005)

UK Government Announces New 5-yr IT Plan (15 Nov 2005)

Supermarket Reclaims its Central Nervous System! (15 Nov 2005)

More IT problems for HM Government (3 May 2007)

Peter Drucker Dies Aged 95 (11 Nov 2005)

Will GM Beat Ford to Chapter 11? (19 Nov 2005)

FlowMap Announces a New Development Project (12 Oct 2005)

If It Isn't On The Web It Doesn't Exist

NHS Computer System Fiasco Developing? (15 Nov 2005)

Microsoft Follows 'First Metre' Approach for its SQL 2005 Server Development (28 Nov 2005)

Remuneration 'In Excelsis' or Executive Excess? (3 Oct 2005)

Yet another HMG IT-led First Metre failure (August 2007)

The Founding Fathers of 'The New Prometheans'

Computer Upgrades Fail 'First Metre' Test at Tokyo Stock Exchange (13 Dec 2005)

Another Expensive 'First Metre' Failure in UK Government IT (30 Dec 2005)

MNS to Partner with Cavendish Software (01 Jan 2006)

Home Office Fails Audit due to First Metre failures (02 Feb 2006)

'Productivity is Dependent upon Recognition' (16 Jan 2006)

Is the Human Brain a Bayesian Machine? (07 Jan 2006)

'M&A Gravy Train still Rolling' (25 Jan 2006)

UK Public Service Inefficiencies Rise with Spending (Dec 2005)

US Auto Giants Weaken Further (7 Dec 2005)

Windows Workflow Approach Rated by Ambrose Little (01 Feb 2006)

Low End-User Take-Up of ERP Services (13 March 2006)

Foreign Office IT Consolidation Project Failing (08 March 2006)

Home Office Chaos Highlights First Metre Failings of Bureaucracy (01 May 2006)

Toyota's First Metre advantage as GM faces Last Mile to Chapter 11 (21 May 2006)

Home Office bureaucracy condemned by its newest leader (24 May 2006)

Audit Office report ducks vital issues related to NHS IT Programme (27 June 2006)

First Metre failure in NHS Doctor Selection Process (16 May 2007)

The PC @ 25 (12 August 2006)

NHS would be better off without IT upgrade (20 August 2006)

IT Observers Discovering Importance of First Metre Working (19 Oct 2006)

Toyota is now the car company in front (15 April 2007)

Stern Review offers ultimate 'First Metre' challenge (30 Oct 2006)

The Puritan Gift - A Review (11 May 2007)

Economic-Quality, Computers & People (June 2007)

Partition clear example of First Metre failure (August 2007)

First Metre contempt by sofa-bound mandarins (October 2007)