Dateline: November 29, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. A recent blog post from Fast Company came to the surprising conclusion that setting 'extremely short' deadlines was not just more productive, but reduced anxiety and made work less boring. Building on Parkinson’s Law about how work expands to fill the available time, Blogger … [Read more...]
Innovation Secret: Culture Wins over Strategy
November 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: November 15, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Innovation can be an elusive goal for some organizations. Corporate strategist and author Chris Potts recently wrote a thought provoking piece for Information Week suggesting Innovation Stalled? Bad Culture Defeats Good Strategy. Potts writes, Why do some organizations … [Read more...]
Killing Innovation in the Organization
November 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Innovation is, to some, the holy grail of continued success. Getting the innovation process right puts an organization on the path of growth and renewal. Recently, Scott Kirsner, editor of Innovation Leader, an information service for corporate innovation executives, and blogger at Harvard Business Review, wrote about 11 ways a big company undermines their own innovation efforts. To summarize, … [Read more...]
Organizing IT Better
October 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Designing an IT organization to best meet the needs of your business is a never-ending task. Just when you think you have the optimal design, factors such as changes in the business, new technologies, or new ways to work come along and mess up the success. CIO Insight recently published a slideshow of the Nine Ways to Better Organize Your IT Department. Their suggestions, based on IT consultant … [Read more...]
Digital Competency is Critical for Success in the Creative Economy
October 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Forbes contributor, Steve Denning, recently interviewed Haydn Shaughnessy, co-author with Dr. Nick Vitalari of The Elastic Enterprise (mentioned earlier in this blog here). Denning suggests that: The Elastic Enterprise is one of at least twenty-four books of a management canon that spells out the implications of coping with the emerging Creative Economy of the 21st Century. In effect, a … [Read more...]
Key Measures of IT: Business Value, not Costs
September 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: September 27, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. In a recent interview of Michelle Bailey, vice president of datacenter initiatives and digital infrastructure with the analyst firm 451 Research, CIO Insight shared her views of what IT leaders ought to be focused on these days. Bailey suggested that IT organizations have … [Read more...]
Personal Productivity: When Do You Do Your Best Work?
September 13, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Fast Company recently published a thoughtful blog titled, Why Productive People Get Up Insanely Early by Paul DeJoe, the co-founder of Vancouver- based Ecquire, a sales productivity tool. In his quest to figure out how to appreciate the present, he stumbled upon an unusual solution, What I was depriving myself from was time in the day where there was no pressure and no expectations. For the … [Read more...]
