Archive for November, 2007
Gaining ground in your organization’s business as a technical professional: Two Essential Tips
Below are two tips that I think will give you opportunities to become more commercially aware of your organization’s business. Try them out.
1) See yourself as the managing director of your personal business, even if you’re an employee. Ask yourself if your customers (mostly colleagues) would buy your services and trust your company and brand? [...]
The gap might not be so big between business and IT after all…
Take a moment to read this article in this month’s Information Age (in fact I strongly recommend you subscribe to this magazine). The article discusses research conducted by the magazine and a software vendor which assesses the gap between senior IT executives and business executives, in terms of their opinion of critical business issues.
One conclusion [...]
Understanding commercials through the budgeting process
Almost every business manages a budget. That is, a prediction of expected costs against actual costs. It’s a way that a business stops spending too much or too little, and is, in essence, a plan of expenditure.
Knowing how businesses manage expense is a powerful way of understanding how businesses work. Do you know your accruals [...]
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