Every CIO’s Guide to Demonstrably Outstanding Performance

I am chairing/ facilitating two CIO sessions in London free to attend for CIO’s and senior IT Leaders.

These seminars will show you how some truly outstanding CIOs took a radical new approach to measuring and managing IT performance. Top performing CIO’s are able to improve quality, reliability and also to better predict how long work will take. They Continue reading article »

The Irrational Enterprise

irrational by Spo0ky on flickr

Regardless of the term we choose to describe our collective work – be it an organization, company, business or undertaking – the mission-critical tapestry of the Enterprise is always woven from threads of human behaviour, by the actors directly and indirectly engaged in the process and organization.

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misalignment of business and personal benefit

incentives by opensourceway on flickr

How often do you see a project proposal that makes provision for staff incentives to achieve the project objectives? I’ll bet such a thing is a rare beast indeed, if not extinct. But this might be a substantive cause of project failure and disappointment.

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Operational Utopia - Does your IT culture work with your business? - webcast

blue circuits from Finextra.com

It can be hard to find the road to operational nirvana – an IT infrastructure that allows faster time to market for new applications, more efficient divisions of labour for IT specialists and, of course, across the board cost savings.

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language directly affects performance

hard times need hard words

Picture credit: Leo Reynolds

Many of us are living through harder times but we still persist with using softer language that often pre-determines weaker performance.

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