The Bleeding Obvious

A report by ProjectChange

We read the reports. We sat in the roundtables. We watched the keynote speakers talk about “listening more deeply” to people who’ve said the same thing for years.

So we wrote our own report. It contains no revelations, no executive insight, and no bold new model that will Change The Game™. That’s entirely intentional.

The Bleeding Obvious is a summary of everything the sector already knows — compiled without a formal consultation process, an advisory group, or any measurable outcomes. It does, however, have a contents page and several bold headers, which creates a strong illusion of rigour.

It’s obvious. Blatantly so. Frustratingly so.

But maybe that’s the point. What if we stopped pretending we don’t already know?

Read it. Or don’t. Just don’t file it away with the others and call it progress.

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Chair of the Board

Neil Macleod

Neil is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and spent the majority of his career in manufacturing/Supply Chain spending the early part in large FMCG multi-national organisations, latterly working in  SME’s in the light industrial sector including the last 17 years with a Malaysian Based Private Equity company.

Neil has been lucky enough to have lived and worked outside Scotland, having spent 10  years in Australia, 2 years in France , 5 years in Malaysia , 3 years in Luxembourg and finally Chicago.

He returned to Scotland in 2017 and is currently a Trustee of Scouts Scotland and Honorary Professor at the University of Dundee’s School of Business.