Dateline: April 17, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. With the raging war on talent, managers seek the best way to find the best team members. Remote workers may be the right answer, but many organizations are not 'remote-worker friendly,' making it difficult for the remote worker to be successful. Managers are not comfortable … [Read more...]
Transforming into a Data-Driven Organization
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Dateline: April 10, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Data-driven transformation means morphing your organization into an enterprise with a culture and decision-making structure based on KPIs and analytics. Today, it's the goal of many organizations to become data-driven. CIO magazine recently wrote about the Seven Principles of … [Read more...]
Texting as UX
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Dateline: April 3, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. A recent Fast Company article about user interface of an app using texting instead of other modes of notification caught my attention. In How Texting with Chatbots Creates a Better UX Than Apps, author (and clearly digital native) Chris Gayomali shared his experience with two … [Read more...]
The Importance of Project Sponsors
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Dateline: March 27, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Professors Timothy J. Kloppenborg and Debbie Tesch, from Xavier University’s Williams College of Business, published a thought-provoking research study about project success in the Sloan Management Review. The article, How Executive Sponsors Influence Project Success, … [Read more...]
Apps are Headed for Extinction
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Dateline: March 20, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently Paul Adams, VP of Products at @Intercom, a customer communications software company, published a thoughtful blog, titled The End of Apps as we Know Them on the future of apps. In it he suggests, The idea of having a screen full of icons, representing independent … [Read more...]
Minimizing IT Job Frustration
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Dateline: March 13, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently, John Reed, Senior Executive Director at Robert Half Technology, published a short article about 5 Top Sources of Job Frustrations for Your IT Team. He said, In our work with clients, we often hear them mention five sources of discontentment among tech … [Read more...]
Descriptive, Predictive and Prescriptive
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Dateline: March 6, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Analytics is on the minds of every senior leader today. Companies have data warehouses full of data just waiting to be mined for gems of actionable insights. No one will argue against the goal of making better business decisions with data and analytics, but how to do that is a … [Read more...]
Triaging A Bad Work Environment
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Dateline: February 27, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Have you noticed a drop in productivity lately? Does the work environment seem more stressful than usual? Are more of your staff members quitting than the usual flow dictates? In a recent article at Fast Company nicely summarized 3 Steps to Recognize a Poisonous Office … [Read more...]
Myth-Busting: What Millennials Want From Their Job In IT
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Dateline: February 20, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. In a recent post at Information Week, David Wagner, writer and community editor, shared 10 tips for millennials in IT who want to figure out how to talk with the 'older generation'. While this type of thinking has been the fodder for many jokes, there is a perception that … [Read more...]
