“I told you so…” is so often cried after something has gone wrong. But was that ‘telling‘ stated clearly and unequivocally before things went wrong or was it merely a passing counter view against a probable likelihood based on an alternative possibility.
When a risk manifests itself and takes a grip on a project it’s amazing how quickly hindsight can kick in. This comes in the form of free advice as to what could have happened to avoid the risk ‘after the fact’. Continue reading
After people and processes, applications are a primary enabler of business capabilities for most organizations of any size. In the early days of commercial computing, most companies had to develop their own applications and run them on their own computers. As things evolved, vendors entered the market in a variety of spaces, including: Continue reading
As professionals we all have some notion of the concept of risk even if we do not understand the technical assessment tools and mathematics involved with the more challenging risk assessment processes. To manage anything in isolation is not the most successful approach and it is just as true of managing risk. Why do we put so much management attention on the downside risk issues and often ignore the upside which is prospect? Continue reading
I always take questions at the end of my talks, and recently I distinctly remember a woman in the back of the room that said, ” Elizabeth, I attended one of your talks recently, and you told us about the monkey in our heads. That really helped me. Can you tell that story again?”
So here goes:
Your mind is like a monkey. It goes from thought to thought for hours on end. It rattles on so much that we often don’t have any idea about what is going on up there at all. Continue reading
There is a powerful 4-part solution to addressing skepticism and risk aversion. You will see the need for this, if you stop for a moment and consider…
Did you ever buy a used car? Do you remember what the weather was like that day? Hopefully, you didn’t make the same mistake I made…. Continue reading