Analytics Can Drive the Wrong Behaviors

Dateline: August 11, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Finding jewels in your data is a blast, but some of the jewels can lead to the wrong behaviors, according to a recent opinion article published at Information Management by journalist Lenny Liebmann titled Four Analytics Errors that can Defeat Data Project Efforts.  The article … [Read more...]

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...]

It’s the People who Make or Break Project Success

Dateline: April 24, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Professors Fabian J. Sting, Christoph H. Loch and Roto Frank Head of Engineering Dirk Stempfhuber recently published an article in Sloan Management Review titled, Accelerating Projects by Encouraging Help, that highlights the importance of managing behavioral issues as much as … [Read more...]

Manage Slowly to Move Fast

Dateline: January 16, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This weekend's idea comes from a relatively new voice on strategic thinking for IT leaders.  Chris Gebhardt, former SWAT and current IT leader, has started a blog, IT Tid-bits about Information Technology. A recent post provided our thought-provoking idea for this week's … [Read more...]

Speeding up IT

Dateline: August 29, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Nothing pleases the business partners more than to receive a quality, working IT system delivered on-time and on-spec.  Want to delight them? Deliver it fast.  In an interview by Rob Preston, Editor-in-chief at InformationWeek,  GM CIO Randy Mott suggested that speed of … [Read more...]

Most Impactful Ideas of 2013 According to HBR

Dateline: January 3, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. To kick off our new year, this post is not really about one idea…but about 7.  At the beginning of each year as a way to wrap up the past year, we look for the most insightful 'summary'.  This year, we found just the list at Harvard Business Review's Blog Network by Katherine … [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...]

Critical Project Management Skills for IT

Dateline: February 1, 2013 Welcome to our  Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Project management is a critical role for every IT organization.  But putting the right person in the role of project management is often an art, rather than a science.  A recent article at CIO.com, by Jennifer Lonoff Schiff, 7 Must-Have Project Management Skills for IT Pros, … [Read more...]