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#174 – MISUNDERSTANDING INNOVATION – GREG CARROLL

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team-carroll-150x150Excuse me, but this is a bit like 3 high street bankers sitting around discussing the plight of the homeless.   Very few of these self-appointed experts have ever started a business let alone been directly responsible for innovation in the marketplace.

After being in the computer software business for over 3 decades I have been directly involved in the most innovative period mankind has seen.  From the introduction of “mini” computers to the “cloud” to IoT (the Internet of Things), technical change has been a staple of the industry.  But from text files to relational databases to big data, the evolution of information as a tool has been the backbone of innovation in the aptly named “information revolution”.  Continue reading →

#174 – SELECTING BOARD OF DIRECTORS – JIGNESH PADIA

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Picture1The Board of Directors are vital for any organization’s good governance. Governance determines how an organization is centered and where it stands. “The Boards of Directors are a group of individuals within an organization that are either elected or appointed as representatives of Shareholders or Owners to establish Corporate Governance and enterprise risk management policies”. (Source: ERMGovernance.com) It is given that for an organization to be successful, it should have a Board of Directors (BOD) with a broad mix of skills to oversee the wide range of issues that may arise. Continue reading →

#174 – THE BUSINESS AND LEADERSHIP CONFLICT – GARY HINKLE

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02WEBIt’s ridiculous if you think about it – businesses invest billions of dollars per year on leadership development, yet we continue to have a shortage of true leaders in business. Not every business suffers from this shortage, but I know that within most organizations involved in technology development and manufacturing there are major leadership voids in the management ranks. Continue reading →

#173 – PUBLIC APATHY IN THE PATH OF PREPAREDNESS – GEARY SIKICH

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I was supposed to be in Boston presenting at “The Disaster Conferences” a few years ago on 28 January 2015.  Well, the weather just put us out to 19 March 2015 for the now, rescheduled Boston conference.  I guess that they are still feeling the effects of this week’s blizzard, now named “Juno”; that left Boston with over 24 inches of snow.   Continue reading →

#173 – A STATE OF READINESS – JOSEPH PARIS

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image001-2-300x300-250x250It’s taken a long time—but the time has finally come.  The release of my book, “State of Readiness”, has arrived.

My project officially started almost two and a half years ago.  That was the day I formally sat down and decided to write a book.  But it’s beginning can be traced to an article I wrote in 2012 entitled, “The Operational Excellence Manifesto”.  It was one of the more significant articles I had written and was the result of a considerable amount of listening, learning, and experiencing. Continue reading →