James Pickering
A business change consultant who delivers productivity.

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Mar
31
Project Management is changing.....

Project Management is changing.....

By using Cursor Ai or indeed any commercial LLM any business can cut software development costs by 40%. When looking
5 min read
Mar
05
SquareDeal Investment Proposal

SquareDeal Investment Proposal

Investment Proposal for The SquareDeal start up. We are rethinking classifieds - Fair, Local, Community-driven.
2 min read
Feb
23
Efficient Minds - I wanted to see if AI takes my job.

Efficient Minds - I wanted to see if AI takes my job.

I’m a Productivity Consultant. I look at processes, people, tools and plans. There are so many ways to complicate
4 min read
Nov
13
AI does not tell the truth.....

AI does not tell the truth.

I am just coming to the end of a fascinating technical project. I have almost finished building an IOS/Android
4 min read
Sep
03
Cultural Change Part Three - Projects.

Cultural Change Part Three - Projects.

Projects? What is he talking about? Projects, with project managers and mulitple tiers of chat? No. I mean where without
5 min read
Aug
28
Cultural Change Part Two - Decision making

Cultural Change Part Two - Decision making

You can only really make a good decision if you know where you are going. If you are making a
5 min read
Aug
28
Cultural Change Part One  - The Business Model

Cultural Change Part One - The Business Model

Where do you start? With an organisational chart. It will have fancy titles for those included, but how far do
6 min read
Jul
09
Tendering

Tendering

Undertaking a tender process, either as a supplier or contractor, is an exciting business activity. We do not always talk
4 min read
Jun
18
Managing Sales

Managing Sales

I love sales. There cannot be a more fulfilling business activity than pitching. Back in the day, when I was
4 min read
Jun
16
Cursor: The AI-first Code Editor

Cursor: The AI-first Code Editor

It's a clever bit of marketing that. It is not the first AI code editor, but the AI-first
4 min read