Leading IT Projects: Knowing when to Speed Up and when to Slow Down

Dateline: May 1, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. How fast can IT make something happen?  In most organizations it's never fast enough.  "Slow" is not the adjective we want associated with IT (or for that matter, with any process).   However, to minimize risks and project failure, projects must go slow enough to insure … [Read more...]

Leading IT Today: Knowing when to Speed Up and when to Slow Down

Dateline: October 25, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. CIOs and their IT departments are among the newest leaders to experience the push for doing things quicker, what researchers and authors Bent Flyvbjerg and Alexander Budzier, from  University of Oxford, explore in their blog, IT on Steroids: The Benefits and Risks of Accelerating … [Read more...]