All Entries in the "Organizational Development" Category

Using Twitter As A Business Communication Tool

Twitter is the ‘micro-blogging’ service that has grown to 3m users wordwide in less than 3 years because it provides the simplest social communication platform around. It’s used by kids, pensioners, young adults, well - everyone. It’s being used by business as well. Here’s how.
The beauty of Twitter is that it is simple. You can [...]

How Do Business Analysts Measure Their Value?

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 [...]

Who Are The Super Geeks?

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 - [...]

Were Businesses Ready for Web2.0?

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 ‘Silicon.com CIO Jury ‘ who asked whether organizations were ready for the Facebook generation , and it seems that [...]

Projects Are About People, Not Technology (According To Elizabeth Harrin)

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’s guide to project management) who won the ComputerWeekly 2008 IT Blog Awards in the Project Management category. Her post [...]

Don’t Underestimate the Dicey Art of Escalation!

A general dictionary defines escalation in many ways like, “Increase in intensity, magnitude, bypassing the immediate person, and so on.” 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 [...]

Get This! The Author of Da Vinci Code Clearly Doesn’t Understand Succession Planning

If you have read any of Dan Brown’s books, you’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 ‘Forrest Gump’ Hanks , and Angels [...]

Learn India in 12 Easy Steps

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 [...]

Barack Obama Makes His (Pointless?) Play on Outsourcing

Barack Obama has publicly stated (I assume in his Government, should he get in) that organizations who outsource overseas won’t get tax breaks. What tax breaks though? In the US, organizations don’t get tax breaks specifically for this. And what has an organization’s choice of outsourcing got to do with politics, I would add - [...]

Unusual Cures For Boring Meetings

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 [...]