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What Professionals Do
…which describes the essential ingredients to what serves as not only differentiators in your workforce, but the “difference makers”. I believe the few people that get the lion’s share of work done exhibit these behaviors. Being a professional involves a code of conduct. While consultants (Blood Type of a Consultant) and contractors (Blood Type of a Contractor) are defined in the referenced posts terms of what it means to carry their associated profession’s badge, Seth does a good job of providing attributes of “being professional” Continue reading
Posted in Consulting, Management, People / Talent, Uncategorized
Tagged action, actions, character, consultant, contractor, Leadership, workforce dynamics
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Shift to Mobile Phones
…By definition, mobile devices “have legs.” While laptops certainly have cause their share of headaches for their owners and groups that support them, mobile phone will be giving the headache volume knob a hard spin to the right. Continue reading
Shifting Asset Ownership
…Data centers have shrunk to server rooms. Server rooms have been virtualized to a rack or two. Desktop workstations are now laptops and tablets. The price point to equip your workforce has dropping and the capital budget has been shrinking with it. Licensing of enterprise suites is also feeling the tremors as paying in an on demand mode is becoming a core part of the vendor conversation. Continue reading
Tomorrow’s IT Infrastructure
…Fast forward yourself 5 years into the future where you are the leader of your company’s IT organization. What does your infrastructure like? This is an interesting question. First of all, the question “will your company have an IT infrastructure?”… Continue reading
Posted in Management, Technology
Tagged future, infrastructure, technologies, vision
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IT Organization of the Future
In a world where we often don’t look beyond the next set of quarterly financial statements, it is occasionally refreshing to take a pause and fast forward the tape to imagine what out world will be like in three or five years… Continue reading
Posted in Consulting, Leadership
Tagged business drivers, change, Leadership, Management
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Communicating Your Strategy
…The reality of the situation is that a very hard part is still ahead of you. Until you are able to distill the resulting strategy into a clear and concise set of messages that can rally people around the future, motivate them to take action, and self direct their behavior to support the strategic vision, my guess is that all you have is a lot of hard work driven by good intentions. Continue reading
The “How” of Your Strategy
After you have finished with defining strategic intents of your organization, defined the goals you are going to reach, established the operating principles to define your key positions, and values you will work by, you come to where the rubber meets the road – defining how you get all of this done… Continue reading
Values – The Softer Side of Strategy
…Powerful words. They set the stage for big things to come, especially when everyone believes in these values and they cause people to take actions toward a unified set of goals – or more importantly, drive an organization to a desired set of behaviors. Continue reading
Posted in Consulting, Leadership, Management, Process
Tagged change, Leadership, strategy, values, workforce dynamics
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Operating Principles – Taking The Positions Which Guide Strategy
IT Strategy ultimately will align the efforts of the IT Organization with that of the enterprise. Determining the operating principles of the organization will foundationally drive this alignment, and determine the initiatives which will be required as part of this alignment. Continue reading
Posted in Consulting, Leadership, Management, Process
Tagged acceleration, business drivers, capability, decision, strategy
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Strategic Intent – IT Strategy’s Business Alignment
…When you align your must-do initiatives with business intents (strategy or direction) the first realization is that you now have a North Star for driving your IT organization. The next realization is that the funding mechanism for your organization becomes very clear. Continue reading
Posted in Consulting, Leadership
Tagged acceleration, business drivers, Leadership, strategy
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