Recent Thought

by Stephanie Hayes on September 12, 2008 at 12:45 pm
There's alot of excitement out there right now about "going green". With global worries such as carbon emissions, depletion of natural resources, and rapidly accelerating natural distasters, the business community has emerged as a potentially significant player in the race to make our planet healthy again.
by Stephanie Hayes on April 30, 2008 at 11:49 pm
I've seen many different organisational structures over the last ten years, from one end of the spectrum to the other. Resoundingly, IT has always struggled to find a home. Most typically, it ends up in the operational "catch-all" department but I've seen some pretty amusing configurations. I've seen IT reporting into Human Re...
by Sergio Del Piccolo on April 30, 2008 at 4:34 pm
There are literally hundreds of processes that we as employees partake in every day as part of our doing our job. These can vary from requesting vacation time, asset tracking, dealing with customer queries or copying information from one system to another, to name just a few. How we do each of these processes varies substantially from one organisat...
by Daniel Gocsman on April 25, 2008 at 12:22 pm
From my past experiences, Release Management is not always a very popular subject in your typical IT department. Either it is something that was shelved for awhile or there is no formal Release Management plan in place. In contrast, I found that a lot of organisations do have some form of Change Management (often called something else) in place and...
by Stephanie Hayes on April 22, 2008 at 11:43 pm
In my experience working with IT organisations that are on a path of growth, I have encountered many more who struggle to build all skills in house than those who try to find the right blend of internal and external resources to complement their business priorities. This scramble to be all things to the organisation seems often to come from an over...
by Jame Healy on August 14, 2007 at 2:33 pm
How many times have we seen this before? No names of course.The irony of this cartoon is that the "employee" may in fact be correct. Granted that a chart with this kind of dramatic drop-off is not typically illustrative of positive performance, we all too often pay these one-dimensional measurements too much attention.
by Jame Healy on May 25, 2007 at 8:27 am
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without Strategy is the noise before the defeat.” Sun Tsu (”The Art of War”)
by Jame Healy on May 25, 2007 at 8:05 am
Cross-posted from http://www.jamehealy.com/performance_is_not_just_results

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