Category Archives: Technology@Risk® – Howard M. Wiener

#312 – EDUCATIONAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AND THE FUTURE OF WORK – HOWARD WIENER

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In a previous article I explored how workers and employers should approach the future and opined that both would be better off if they each understood the motivations and tactics that the other would employ to further their interests.  Workers are concerned about achieving and maintaining marketability to employers and companies are concerned about acquiring the workforce they need to compete in the markets in which they do business.  I assert that understanding what’s driving the approach each side will take to achieve its aims will be crucial to competing. Continue reading →

#306 – HOWARD WIENER – FUTURE OF WORK – CIO TO COO TO CEO

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A recent Wall Street Journal article, entitled Coronavirus Pandemic Helps Speed More CIOs Toward Business Operations Accountability, observed:

“Large businesses are starting to hold their chief information officers accountable for the results of corporate-wide digital business operations, giving them much wider responsibility within the organization. . . Gartner, which last month released its annual list of top strategic predictions, said that by 2024, a quarter of the CIOs working in large, traditional enterprises will effectively become, as the research and advisory firm calls it, ‘COO by proxy.’” Continue reading →

#304 – CHANGE DRIVERS THAT WILL IMPACT WORK AND PROFESSIONS – HOWARD WIENER

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In my previous post, What’s Driving the Future of Work and Professions?, I mentioned PESTLE as a helpful framework for classifying external forces that act on all of us and the companies for which we work.  In this article, I present a list of them for you to consider.  It’s not encyclopedic, but it’s a good start.

As you do, ask yourself:

  • What was the old norm?
  • What is the new norm?
  • What does a person need to thrive in the new norm?

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#299 – AGILE ERM #3 – HOWARD WIENER

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In the previous article (Enabling Agile Enterprise Risk Management Part II: Disciplines) I identified the disciplines necessary to enable you to transform your enterprise at speed.  At the conclusion of that article, I promised to present a design for a repository and system to support AERM.  This article will fulfill that promise. Continue reading →

#296 – ENABLING AGILE ERM PART 2 – HOWARD WIENER

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In the previous article (Enabling Agile Enterprise Risk Management: Artifacts and Disciplines,) I identified the artifacts necessary to enable you to transform your enterprise at speed.  In this article, I will discuss the disciplines required to avoid creating Technical Debt by transforming and not just changing.

Artifacts Document WHAT

The artifacts that document the state of your organization include your Enterprise and Business Architecture (EA and BA) models, your Business Process Management (BPM) models and your Risk Register.  Continue reading →