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	<title>SimonStapleton.com &#187; Organizational Development</title>
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	<description>The IT Industry's Answer To Indiana Jones</description>
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		<title>Using Twitter As A Business Communication Tool</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/10/07/using-twitter-as-a-business-communication-tool/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/10/07/using-twitter-as-a-business-communication-tool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Life Hacks]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Organizational Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[business communication]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter is the &#8216;micro-blogging&#8217; service that has grown to 3m users wordwide in less than 3 years because it provides the simplest social communication platform around. It&#8217;s used by kids, pensioners, young adults, well - everyone. It&#8217;s being used by business as well. Here&#8217;s how.
The beauty of Twitter is that it is simple. You can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Do Business Analysts Measure Their Value?</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/10/06/how-do-business-analysts-measure-their-value/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/10/06/how-do-business-analysts-measure-their-value/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business Analysis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Career Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Organizational Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Personal Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Business Analyst]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[performance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[value]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Business Analysts are the fulcrum that turn an idea, problem or opportunity identified in the business into something that IT can engage with and deliver. So BAs generally deal with work whose inputs are less easily defined and therefore measured. So how do BAs measure their value? 
Take a look at BAs who are working in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Are The Super Geeks?</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/10/02/who-are-the-super-geeks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/10/02/who-are-the-super-geeks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Geek]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[IT Leadership (CIO, CTO, IT Director, Head of IT)]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[super geek]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=703</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The last quarter century has seen the rise of the Super Geek. This recent CIO.com article features 11 Super Geeks that have transformed society by disruptive technologies. This collection of individuals, if together, might be confused with the cantina in Star Wars, but their combined wealth is a hundred squillion dollars (roughly). Who are they?

Alan Kay - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Were Businesses Ready for Web2.0?</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/30/were-businesses-ready-for-web20/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/30/were-businesses-ready-for-web20/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Organizational Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[organizational development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[web2.0]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=686</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My Grandmother might not know it, but Web2.0 has created a social revolution. It has changed the way people interact, network, learn and organize forever more. But were businesses ready for it?
I recently contributed to the &#8216;Silicon.com CIO Jury &#8216; who asked whether organizations were ready for the Facebook generation , and it seems that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Projects Are About People, Not Technology (According To Elizabeth Harrin)</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/25/projects-are-about-people-not-technology-according-to-elizabeth-harrin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/25/projects-are-about-people-not-technology-according-to-elizabeth-harrin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Freelancer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[IT Leadership (CIO, CTO, IT Director, Head of IT)]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Organizational Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Personal Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Project Manager]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Technical Professional]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[project]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[project management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[recruitment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=652</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent post on her blog, Elizabeth Harrin shares with us some research from Forrester which (in her words) reminds us that projects are about people, not technology. 
Elizabeth Harrin is a blogger (a girl&#8217;s guide to project management) who won the ComputerWeekly 2008 IT Blog Awards in the Project Management category. Her post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Underestimate the Dicey Art of Escalation!</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/19/the-dicey-art-of-escalation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/19/the-dicey-art-of-escalation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thejendra</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Organizational Development]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[escalation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=569</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A general dictionary defines escalation in many ways like, &#8220;Increase in intensity, magnitude, bypassing the immediate person, and so on.&#8221; Applied to workplaces escalation is usually a formal process in many IT and non-IT projects. For example, if certain employees are unable or unwilling to do a certain activity they are accountable for, then it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get This! The Author of Da Vinci Code Clearly Doesn&#8217;t Understand Succession Planning</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/12/author-of-da-vinci-code-clearly-doesnt-understand-succession-planning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/12/author-of-da-vinci-code-clearly-doesnt-understand-succession-planning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Organizational Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[dan brown]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[digital fortress]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[jabba]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[succession planning]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=509</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have read any of Dan Brown&#8217;s books, you&#8217;ll know he writes ripping yarns of action and suspense. He is the master of the edge of the seat. His books have become very popular and has seen the Da Vinci Code told as a blockbusting movie starring Tom &#8216;Forrest Gump&#8217; Hanks , and Angels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn India in 12 Easy Steps</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/10/learn-india-in-12-easy-steps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/10/learn-india-in-12-easy-steps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thejendra</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Organizational Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Personal Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[india]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[outsourcing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=506</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[India has become the hot low cost outsourcing destination for many western companies, and everyone is hating and loving it at the same time. As it is a hot destination too many western businessmen often burn their hands by touching the wrong buttons. But anyone who wants to successfully take advantage of the pluses and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barack Obama Makes His (Pointless?) Play on Outsourcing</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/08/barack-obama-makes-his-pointless-play-on-outsourcing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/08/barack-obama-makes-his-pointless-play-on-outsourcing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[IT Leadership (CIO, CTO, IT Director, Head of IT)]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[barack obama]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=531</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama has publicly stated (I assume in his Government, should he get in) that organizations who outsource overseas won&#8217;t get tax breaks. What tax breaks though? In the US, organizations don&#8217;t get tax breaks specifically for this. And what has an organization&#8217;s choice of outsourcing got to do with politics, I would add - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unusual Cures For Boring Meetings</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/05/unusual-cures-for-boring-meetings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/05/unusual-cures-for-boring-meetings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thejendra</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[boredom]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[boring meetings]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[meetings]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=449</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is not even 10:00 am on Monday morning and it is already time to rush into one of those dreadful weekly status report meetings, a ritual that started sometime in your previous birth. You know for sure that no one will have anything substantial to report, or a few trumpeters will hype up their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Piss Off IT Professionals: Misalignment of Objectives</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/22/how-to-piss-off-it-professionals-misalignment-of-objectives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/22/how-to-piss-off-it-professionals-misalignment-of-objectives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[IT Leadership (CIO, CTO, IT Director, Head of IT)]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[alignment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bad management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[employee satisfaction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[morale]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[objectives]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[productivity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=328</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my more popular articles recently has been &#8216;12 Behaviors Most Disliked by IT Professionals &#8216; in which I shared the 12 things IT professionals hated the most about their leaders. In this article, I will be addressing one of these - when the objectives of different leaders are misaligned. 
  
 I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money Isn&#8217;t Everything, According to IT Professionals (who responded)</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/20/money-isnt-everything-according-to-it-professionals-who-responded/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/20/money-isnt-everything-according-to-it-professionals-who-responded/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Pay &amp; Money]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Surveys &amp; Opinion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Technical Professional]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[challenge]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=317</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just read an excellent article, written by Ann All, on the IT Business Edge website that discusses the working environment that IT professionals prefer to work in.
What I like about it is Ann&#8217;s honest view about the conclusion that IT people like to work in a positive, challenging environment. I&#8217;m pleased that IT people see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Leader, The Followers, and the Situation</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/17/the-leader-the-followers-and-the-situation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/17/the-leader-the-followers-and-the-situation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Career Development]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[winston churchill]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=289</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows that Winston Churchill was a brilliant wartime leader, bringing the UK from the depths of despair at the beginning of World War II to being triumphant alongside its allies at the end. He was the undisputed king of wartime leadership at that time. But in peacetime, less people know, he was an average [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update: How To Find a Much Better IT Job, Even in Recession</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/07/update-how-to-find-a-much-better-it-job-even-in-recession/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/07/update-how-to-find-a-much-better-it-job-even-in-recession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[female]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=231</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Following my recent article, I&#8217;ve found an excellent article on the HBS Working Knowledge website which discusses the tendencies of women who are finding it easier to move jobs and maintain their star profile.
This article shares the results of research that shows that females are generally more apt at switching jobs and preserving their &#8217;shine&#8217;, when compared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Know If You Live Your Organization&#8217;s Values?</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/02/do-you-know-if-you-live-your-company-values/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/02/do-you-know-if-you-live-your-company-values/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[IT Leadership (CIO, CTO, IT Director, Head of IT)]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[company values]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[organizational values]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=182</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Good leaders know what they value and what their values are, and they recognize the importance of ethical behavior. The great leaders consistently and recognizably exhibit their values and ethics in their leadership style and actions. But what about the values that your organization declares it honors in corporate brochures, office posters and standard desktop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why IT People Don&#8217;t Move Jobs</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/25/why-it-people-dont-move-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/25/why-it-people-dont-move-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[job mobility]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=144</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The average tenure of an IT professional in an organization is still around two years on average, but there are exceptions where workers stay around what seems forever. Why?
I know of several dedicated, experienced IT professionals in the US, UK and South Africa that are in a &#8216;trap&#8217; - i.e. they feel stuck in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Painful Reminder About Change Management</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/24/a-painful-reminder-about-change-management/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/24/a-painful-reminder-about-change-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[IT Leadership (CIO, CTO, IT Director, Head of IT)]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[business transformation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[change management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[transformational leadership]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=143</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re headlong into a programme of work which requires significant process change, it is so easy to forget about the people the processes have an effect on. I&#8217;ve just realized this to my dispeasure!
Right now I am involved in a programme of working changing IT delivery processes, that covers the standard ITIL approach of Release [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOA Demands Different Leaders</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/21/soa-demands-different-leaders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) isn&#8217;t a new concept, but its emergence in organizations is demanding transformational leadership to be applied at all levels.
I&#8217;m assuming you already know about SOA, but I want to recap one important point. The nature of SOA is that it demands server-based technology functions, such as an accounting suite, to become the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Industrialization of IT Will Create a Blue-Collar Sub-Class of IT Workers</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/20/industrialization-of-it-will-create-a-blue-collar-sub-class-of-it-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/20/industrialization-of-it-will-create-a-blue-collar-sub-class-of-it-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Industrialization of IT is one of my current favorite topics as I think we are at a turning point of the whole industry. But one of the biggest implications of this change is that it will reshape the workforce towards blue-collar working.
Industrialization of the IT department and the services it provides is a good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is CRM On Your Agenda?</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/17/is-crm-on-your-agenda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/17/is-crm-on-your-agenda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=132</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[IT Leaders have been burnt badly over CRM (Customer Relationship Management).
There are many failed CRM initiatives to dine out on. But CRM is set to face a resurgence as technology and business has matured towards being really ready for it. And this I think is they key reason why. CRM in the late 90s and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enabling Action-Orientation with Collaborative Technologies</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/11/enabling-action-orientation-with-collaborative-technologies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/11/enabling-action-orientation-with-collaborative-technologies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=127</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Web2.0 and collaborative technologies promise a new world of integrated thought leadership. However they are not without their flaws.
There are three key weaknesses in the typical use of collaborative technologies. The weaknesses are in the way decisions are made that lead to action.

Decisions are made by committees. The larger the group of contributors to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web 2.0 Enabled Followership: Implications</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/10/what-type-of-follower-are-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/10/what-type-of-follower-are-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Leader isn&#8217;t a Leader without Followers. This is convention, but do you know what type of Follower you are, and what type of Followers do you have as a Leader?
Take a look at this HBS Working Knowledge article which discusses the various categories of Follower - although it&#8217;s important to understand that a Follower&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Reasons Why To Love The IT Industry, and 5 Reasons To Hate It</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/06/5-reasons-why-to-love-the-it-industry-and-5-reasons-to-hate-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/06/5-reasons-why-to-love-the-it-industry-and-5-reasons-to-hate-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=121</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The IT Industry has come along way since its professionals were consigned to the basement floors in the domain of flashing lights and large reel-to-reel tapes. IT is Business. IT is the core of commerce. IT has a seat at the Executive table . So what&#8217;s to like about the industry recently emerged from a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shocking Truth of Bypassing Your Boss</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/04/the-shocking-truth-of-bypassing-your-boss/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/04/the-shocking-truth-of-bypassing-your-boss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I surveyed a number of Technical Professionals on the subject of going around their boss. The results were surprising.
Going around your boss is generally frowned upon - it&#8217;s ethics are questionable. Ethics and business don&#8217;t always go together, even if you think they should. The truth is, an organization is comprised of humans with their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Business Sponsorship and a Center of Excellence is Key to BPM Success</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/06/19/why-business-sponsorship-and-a-center-of-excellence-is-key-to-bpm-success/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/06/19/why-business-sponsorship-and-a-center-of-excellence-is-key-to-bpm-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BPM isn’t a fad nor a bolt-on to business. BPM is a model for business and it is growing. BPM is about continuous improvement and scale through technology. BPM must be recognized at the highest level in an organizational to truly deliver on the promises sold by vendors. Here’s why:

Continuous improvement is the primary business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s this Software as a Service (SaaS) all about? A layman&#8217;s view and implications for Technical Professionals</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/06/19/whats-this-software-as-a-service-saas-all-about-a-laymans-view-and-implications-for-technical-professionals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/06/19/whats-this-software-as-a-service-saas-all-about-a-laymans-view-and-implications-for-technical-professionals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Many of you might know about Software as a Service (SaaS). It is a growing industry within IT, and based around (what might be to some) a simple concept. That is, software isn&#8217;t owned, but rented; not installed, but accessed; it&#8217;s not paid for upfront, but pay-as-you-go. You could liken it to watching TV [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Must Industrialize IT to Secure your Organization&#8217;s Future</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/06/18/you-must-industrialize-it-to-secure-your-organizations-future/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/06/18/you-must-industrialize-it-to-secure-your-organizations-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you afford to continue wasting time and resources by re-inventing the wheel and firefighting? This is the question many IT leaders are asking themselves in light of a downturn in financial markets and pressure to get more from less.
Recent keynote addresses by companies like IBM and Forrester say that IT must move away from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prepare for the Future of IT Organization, or Be Left Behind</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/06/17/prepare-for-the-future-of-it-organization/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/06/17/prepare-for-the-future-of-it-organization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve just come from the Forrester IT Forum in Lisbon, Portugal, and discovered a number of insights that crystallized some thoughts I’d been having for a while. One of these insights that resonated especially was the future of IT Leadership and the potential fork in the road of the IT career path.
During the last few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Build Your Virtual Center of Excellence</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/06/16/how-to-build-your-virtual-center-of-excellence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/06/16/how-to-build-your-virtual-center-of-excellence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=112</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Virtual Center of Excellence is a fairly new organizational concept. Its aim is to bring the capabilities, knowledge and expertise together from diverse teams across geographical and organization boundaries to create something exemplary and distinguishable within its domain.  Said another way, VCOEs create a kick-ass team of experts brought together over the web. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delivery is still the top concern of Execs!</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/06/12/delivery-is-still-the-top-concern-of-execs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/06/12/delivery-is-still-the-top-concern-of-execs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been mixing with some of the top Execs (CIOs, CTOs, Heads of IT) over the last few days at the Forrester IT Forum in Lisbon, Portugal, and I&#8217;ve had a number of conversations about the top issues they face.
Not surprisingly, delivery is still the key concern.

What I discovered though is that this issue varies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Implications of the Product Life-Cycle (Part Two)</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/06/03/the-implications-of-the-product-life-cycle-part-two/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/06/03/the-implications-of-the-product-life-cycle-part-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a continuation of this previous article, which looks at the implications of the Product Life-Cycle. In the previous article, I discussed the phases Development, Introduction and Growth.
Now onto Maturity. Maturity is the phase where the product is well established in the market in terms of market share and is turning a healthy profit for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Implications of the Product Life-Cycle (Part One)</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/05/28/the-implications-of-the-product-life-cycle-part-one/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/05/28/the-implications-of-the-product-life-cycle-part-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 10:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that organizational shape and behavior tends to reflect it’s company’s products? I suspected this but it was recently confirmed in this HBS Working Knowledge paper. So when this subject was suggested by Katy Ling I thought it might be interesting to reflect on this phenomenon, and what it means to Technical Professionals. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NFRs: The mysterious requirements of a business</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/04/24/nfrs-the-mysterious-requirements-of-a-business/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/04/24/nfrs-the-mysterious-requirements-of-a-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) are often the ‘unsaid’ requirements of a new product or system. NFRs should describe an important business context. Organizations who express new requirements of an IT system or a product tend to be much better at describing how something should work rather than the conditions in which it should work. For IT departments, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating technical innovation in a regimented world</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/04/24/creating-technical-innovation-in-a-regimented-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/04/24/creating-technical-innovation-in-a-regimented-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s climate of risk management, compliance, ITIL, Prince II and sophisticated management (the &#8216;regime&#8217;) innovation often loses out, as strict control of projects and operations demand repeatable, mature processes. A lot of investment goes into that situation, and changing them is costly and disruptive. So how inside a regime can innovation be stimulated without being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Governance a pain in the ass?</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/04/15/is-governance-a-pain-in-the-ass/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/04/15/is-governance-a-pain-in-the-ass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Governance&#8217; is a term that is becoming more and more popular in today&#8217;s business. Governance, in essence, is the process of policing an organization internally, making sure standards and policies are adhered to, budgets are kept and that decisions are rational and appropriately transparent. Governance is there to ensure your organization complies with Sarbanes-Oxley, should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230; whilst we&#8217;re on the subject of recession&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/03/10/whilst-were-on-the-subject-of-recession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent article on HBS: Working Knowledge gave a marketing view on coping with recession (take a look.) You might notice a number of parallels between the advice aimed at marketers and the advice I gave in my last article &#8216;5 Recession Beating Tips&#8217;.
I think this is because marketing and technical departments face similar challenges [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Tips for beating recession in techical roles</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/03/10/5-tips-for-beating-recession-in-techical-roles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It&#8217;s hotly debated whether we&#8217;re heading into a global recession or not; my personal view is that the economy is slowing down sufficiently enough to spur me to prepare for recession. Taking positive action now could soften the blow if such a disaster were to happen, and I&#8217;d confront it on the front foot. Below [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you at risk from Outsourcing?</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/02/25/are-you-at-risk-from-outsourcing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My recent survey found that 30% of respondents were concerned that outsourcing will put your job at risk. This is a complex area and also a concern that has real grounds as its undeniable that outsourcing has been a huge source of change in business organization, management and economics. I&#8217;ve personally been involved in organizations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The gap might not be so big between business and IT after all&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2007/11/22/the-gap-might-not-be-so-big-between-business-and-it-after-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take a moment to read this article in this month&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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