To Integrity!
This morning a friend of mine awoke and found herself richer, in dollars and in spirit. A past client had overnight transferred a sum of money her way, a “bonus” for services above and beyond. Though...
View ArticleThe Henny Youngman School of Consulting
Henny Youngman, was an American comedian and violinist, the “King of the One-Liners.” Mr. Youngman passed away in 1998; he would have been 107 years old this March 16th, 2013. The Urban Dictionary has...
View Article1-Minute Assessment: Risk Management
Take today’s 1-minute assessment: Do you have a strategy and procedure to find, analyze, and mitigate risks? Is your team familiar with industry frameworks, like ISACA Risk IT, or NIST RMF ? Does the...
View ArticleTickets Please
Is every employee entitled to a seat on the moving vehicle of an organization undergoing change? Who goes, who endures, and who thrives? Ducks, swans, and eagles, quacking, singing, and soaring....
View ArticleA Synapse Is A Terrible Thing To Waste
You do not typically have the liberty to start with a blank slate, to flash it all away as the Men In Black do, to wait it out and hope for collective memory to fail. There is no command-shift-delete...
View Article1-Minute Assessment: Requirements Management
Take today’s 1-minute assessment: Do you have templates to formalize the capture of requirements? Do you have well-known governance around who you authorize to articulate requirements, and who can...
View ArticleThe Soundtrack
Wake up, sing in the shower, exit your flat, whistle a tune, commute, i-Play a favorite ditty, Zumba to beats, 150+ per minute, dine to ballads, promenade to hip-hop, talk over soft jazz, shop to Pop,...
View Article1-Minute Assessment: Value Management
Take today’s 1-minute assessment: Organizations typically have a framework for Risk Management. Do you have one for Value Management, to enable business and IT decisions to maximize the value from...
View Article100 Tweets: A Report Card
I’ve reached my 100th Tweet on Twitter, a milestone of sorts, a time to reflect. Here’s some observations and thoughts. Whom I Follow, Who Follows Me I am following 185 Twitter users and 55 are...
View Article1-Minute Assessment: Organizational Learning
Take today’s 1-minute assessment: Do you identify your organization’s strategic learning needs? Do you tie your learning strategy to resource planning and to talent management? Do you have a tactical...
View ArticleUntapped
Folks might ask: why is the consultant here? There are people on the inside who can do it just as good, if not better, but for whatever reason, are not being asked to do so, are going untapped. A...
View Article1-Minute Assessment: Organizational Process Focus
Take today’s 1-minute assessment: Do you regularly appraise your organization’s processes? Do you identify process improvements? Do you author and carry out process action plans? Did you answer NO to...
View ArticleDon’t Align IT to Business Goals
Consider that you do not want to align IT goals to your business goals. Just as you do not want to improve the effectiveness of communications between silos. Wouldn’t you rather break down the silos...
View ArticleYou Get What You Don’t Pay For
Cause and effect. Similarly, no cause, no effect. Sometimes, things are very simple. Don’t be surprised if you cut funding for functions, or reduce focus on practices, or underspend for enabling...
View Article1-Minute Assessment: Integrated Project Management
Take today’s 1-minute assessment: Do your projects start with a well-known set of defined activities, that people will do, in an integrated and coherent way, to develop and support the products and...
View Article1-Minute Assessment: Configuration Management
Take today’s 1-minute assessment: Do you name configuration items, those specific technology components that make up your technical solutions? Do you have a tool, 3rd party or open source, to help with...
View ArticleDiscontinuing The Dummy-Down
Ideas arrive, events occur. We record them, synthesize, and communicate; we see, we think, we scribe. Time passes and things temporal become clear, like trends, patterns, relationships....
View ArticleCollaboration
Collaboration is . . . a baton-passing relay team, a chamber quartet, a half-time show, Lennon and McCartney, the kitchen at a 5-star restaurant, the 2013 NY Knicks, first responders, a fire brigade,...
View ArticleBig Data Offers No Value
From data, to information, to analytic. We pause for a moment, to let it sink in, to discern the shapes, to see the possibilities, to find the opportunities, to assess the risks. Big data, in and of...
View ArticleWhen do we actually work?
Have you experienced the endless meeting? Maybe it’s not just one meeting. Instead, it’s an endless parade of meetings, starts in January and ends in December – starts Monday ends Friday – 8AM to...
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