Author: Simon Scullion

  • CMX Global Connect 2020 — Event Recap

    CMX Global Connect 2020 — Event Recap

    CMX Global Connect — A Virtual Conference for Community Professionals Three weeks have flown past since the first ever 100% virtual CMX Global Connect! Back on April 28 2020, CMX Global Connect was a one-day virtual conference that brought together a truly global community, online. I joined over 2000 other passionate community professionals for 6 hours of…

  • Intranet Reloaded — 4 Key Takeaways

    Intranet Reloaded — 4 Key Takeaways

    Some thoughts after attending Intranet Reloaded from home 2020, and 4 key takeaways. Transforming a two-day physical event into a 100% online experience is no easy task! Kudos to the we.CONECT team — a great job to adapt the format of the physical event. In numbers Over 400 attendees for 2 days, packed with over 20 sessions. Intranet Reloaded Berlin, is the kind…

  • Forget Setting Goals. Make better small decisions

    Forget Setting Goals. Make better small decisions

    Forget setting goals. Just make better small decisions. And trust you will get where you’re meant to be.

  • Starting out in uncertain times

    Starting out in uncertain times

    What a year 2020 has started out, and promises to be a rough ride. For me personally it represents setting out on new adventures, I’m building something with my good friend Sergio. In starting Five30am, Sergio and I see it as a vehicle that enables us to do meaningful work. For us this means helping people…

  • Examining the impact of Covid-19 on B2B

    Examining the impact of Covid-19 on B2B

    Whether we’re starting out, or a mature organisation, with the appearance of coronavirus, businesses globally are facing very real and serious unexpected challenges. With government-imposed closures of many non-essential sectors, whole supply-chains are being put on pause. As is often the case, the smaller companies are being hit the hardest. B2B in crisis A good example…

  • Consulting is broken!

    Consulting is broken!

    Too often when a consultant is reluctantly hired, far too late in the game, at an exorbitant rate, with little chance and less interest in making a real impact, and their eyes on the cheque at the end of the engagement. Then let’s consider the BS, the jargon, the purported best-practice, all designed to obscure…