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Next Level Thinking
Changing your way of thinking is not easy. Culture, habit, and time pressures conspire to keep the things as they are. getting to the next level, regardless of what level that may be, requires this very change however… Continue reading
Posted in Consulting, Leadership, Management, Process
Tagged acceleration, change, collaboration, consultant, ecosystem
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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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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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Heart and Soul of Your Ecosystem
The internal staff of the IT organization are far more than the people whose paychecks you sign. These are the people who form the heart and soul of your IT ecosystem. If you are at all like most other IT organizations, you will have some truly outstanding people on your payroll. Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Management, People / Talent
Tagged connections, ecosystem, relationships
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