Some time ago, I wrote Agility and the Third Derivative, an article about the need to accelerate our ability to transform ourselves to meet the challenges of a VUCA world that is, itself, changing faster and faster. Continue reading
I’m becoming increasingly concerned that we’re on our way to creating an environment that will breed domestic terrorists and enable foreign ones.
First and most importantly, we’re creating an environment in which people are marginalized. This is exactly the mechanism that has spawned numerous splinter groups and terrorist organizations in the Middle East and Northern Africa. These groups have certainly exaggerated and publicized their marginalization to bolster their own agendas, but there’s a germ (or more) of truth in many cases. Continue reading
In the previous post, I defined a simple hierarchy for portraying the Enterprise:
There have been several posts on LinkedIn recently about IT Steering Committees—what their charter is, what information they should have available and how they should interact with IT implementation project teams. The Steering Committee is one component of IT governance and how it interacts with other components can determine whether the Committee is performing properly, or not. Continue reading
How we design and implement systems and processes can play a large role in determining their usability. Poor usability can contribute to avoidable risks. This post addresses the need to employ risk identification and mitigation techniques in the course of designing things in order to minimize the probability of negative outcomes.