Tag Archives: productivity
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
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
Attraction of Identity
As an organization, who are you? What is your internal and external story? If you cannot crisply define yourself in a few words you likely have a problem on your hands. Continue reading
Hey CIO, How Are Your HR/OD Skills?
Organizations morph. Sometimes the change is slow over time, sometimes rapid as part of a merger. What was effective structurally at one point inevitable deconstructs as the organization it supports changes. As people move in and out of the organization personalities change the roles and by association how the work gets done. Informal structures emerge and at some point the formal organization becomes a hinderance as opposed to a means to facilitate and support successful results. Continue reading
30x: Personal Effort vs Corporate Effort
“”…And a weekend-scale implementation on a personal site usually translates roughly into a 90-day implementation cycle in a business context, which is a reasonably approachable project size. (In tech, three days in personal effort often translates to three months of corporate effort.)”"
I’ve always intuitively believed that there is a significant productivity improvement which can be found when sufficiently motivated and talented individuals work on their own projects compared to when they work on corporate projects. But this statement implies a 30x productivity gain. Can this be true? Maybe so… Continue reading
Types of Meetings – It Depends on Your Perspective
The marketing guru Seth Godin describes three types of meetings which occur in business – Information, Discussion, and Permission meetings. I found this very interesting and somewhat of a parallel universe.
In the business world that I am familiar with, management of Information Technology, I am used to four primary types of meetings, and a different set than Seth describes. Continue reading
