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Celebration of Shadow IT
All those of you who have participated in a Sarbanes-Oxley audit hold up your hand? Good. Now, how many of you have been involved in documenting the processes under scrutiny by the Act? I see fewer hands up. For those of you with your hands still up, do you notice something interesting in each of these processes? Thats’s right, there’s a healthy dose of technology inside these processes – and a healthy percentage of this was developed by people who don’t work within… Continue reading
Posted in Management, People / Talent, Process
Tagged Management, productivity, workforce dynamics
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Using IT (Or Not)
…In order to meet this need, IT organizations are built around managing volume, oriented around large-scale initiatives, and work within defined processes and methodologies to prioritize among the enormous number of items competing for attention, and do so while minimizing the risk to all. Continue reading
Posted in Management, Process
Tagged business drivers, end user computing, sacrifice, workforce
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IT Cost Management via Your Ecosystem
“Cut your costs by 15%, I’ll need your report on how you will do this by Friday.”
Ominous words, but words which are all too common these days. People are stretched pretty thin as it is and if your company is like most people, the work being done isn’t going away. How will you do this? Continue reading
Posted in Management, People / Talent, Process
Tagged consultant, contractor, ecosystem, Management, people, productivity
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Top 10 Posts of 2009
The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.
-Alben W. Barkley Continue reading
Posted in Consulting, Leadership, Management, Process, Technology
Tagged consultant, decision, Leadership, Management, workforce
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Hey CIO, How Are Your Sociology Skills?
A first blush sociology and IT may seem distant concepts. Over the last two years, these subjects and functions have had a head on collision. Some say for the better. Some say for the worse. Continue reading
Posted in Management, Process, Technology
Tagged change, organization, social technology, workforce dynamics
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The Inflection Point
As organizations grow the technology needs of an organization change – and sometimes change quickly and profoundly. Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Management, People / Talent, Process
Tagged change, Leadership, Management, organization, workforce dynamics
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In Our Systems We Trust
Why do we place so much faith in our software systems? Is it that we feel that they are without flaw, or that we are comfortable working around the flaws? Continue reading
Posted in Management, People / Talent, Process, Technology
Tagged defects, end user computing, EUC
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Leveraging Your Ecosystem for Better Peripheral Vision
In an IT organization, peripheral vision is needed. The technology field is moving too quickly and has too much business impact to be ignored. At the same time, the amount and degree of activity which is squarely in front of IT leaders demands a very large amount of attention. What is needed is a mechanism to give the IT leadership peripheral vision – understanding what is coming up on them external to what is capturing their immediate attention. Continue reading
Posted in Management, Process
Tagged Consulting, ecosystem, IT industry, publications
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Why Do People Work For You?
As a leader of your organization, you can shape your ecosystem. One of the hard parts of building out your ecosystem is determining your set of value propositions to your employees – or “why would people want to work for you?”. Recruiting for new people may cause you to think through your value proposition to fill a role. This is different however, than value proposition to your workforce as the focus is smaller and typically less lasting. Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Management, People / Talent, Process
Tagged ecosystem, recruiting, value proposition
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Physics of IT – What Have We Learned?
While not a complete list, these notable items clearly show that Newton’s physics do apply to IT organizations. Looking at your IT organization in this light allows you additional ways to think through your decisions, and how to direct your organization to its future state. Continue reading
Posted in Consulting, Leadership, Process
Tagged acceleration, assets, change, force, mass
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