Since then I've been pursuing my lifelong career interests through study & work with a range of partners and organisations - focussing of course on the broad area of e-learning and e-maturity of organisations in the Further Education colleges that have been my professional life.

Much has been said, written and done in pursuit of an e-transformation that could, it is argued, benefit all involved - and their organisations. Has it happened anywhere yet? Will it? Should it? What does the future hold?

The name for my retirement 'business', PlanAR Research, was chosen to reflect the above profile. The PlanAR word came from the Plan, Action, Review cycle that lies at the heart of most purposeful activity in business and in much [though I guess not all!] of life generally. My new direction has been about keeping active in that cycle - personally and professionally - and it's done that better than I could have expected.

Over the years since I retired I've been surpringly busy, with paid work running parallel to my MPhil/PhD research work, ReMIT, being done through the London University Institute of Education. The two areas have complemented each other, with the combination of academic and instrumental activity yielding valuable insights. But now, increasingly 'weaned off work', I'm enjoying being a student again (and being a 'scholar' for the first time ever) - taking advantage of the wonders of the web to help me understand better the things I've been interested in for many years.