#40 – CYBER SECURITY RISKS & PROCESS IMPROVEMENT – ADINA SUCIU

One of the big 2014 trends for IT is the increased shift from being a division supporting the business to becoming more and more a business partner.  When technology is deployed and managed to fully support business processes and advance effectiveness and efficiency on the E2E (exchange to exchange) outside in customer view processes, the overall organization has increased agility that is easier to sustain. Continue reading

#18 – HOW TO DEVELOP RISK AND PROCESS REQUIREMENTS – ADINA SUCIU

Anything we do is a process.  The more we acknowledge our processes and start the journey of managing and improving them, the lower the risk in overall operations.

The first step in managing processes is to understand all their components and a simple tool that could be used is SIPOC (suppliers, inputs, process, outpus customers). Continue reading

#19 – WESTERN & JAPANESE DECISION – MAKING – ADINA SUCIU

Any business has to have intrinsic mechanisms and approaches in its processes and culture to sustain an ever increasing amount of changes caused by internal or external factors.  Of course, ideally would be to have a standard process to reach the decision for changes, segmented for the various organizational levels and functions and depending of how much of the business is affected. Continue reading

#13 – YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS ABOUT ORGANIZATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY – ADINA SUCIU

Organizational Sustainability implies the capability of addressing with agility internal and external organizational challenges and maximizing the advantages.  This starts with assessing and continuously monitoring and addressing the overall operational context from both external and internal perspectives.  Continue reading