Here is a slightly edited conversation with ActiveEngine following his response to my post on using lean experience to justify agile software development. It may be that non-IT executives don’t need to know about agile processes- just that the IT department is doing a lot more collaborating, testing and verifying throughout the software development process […]
A Fortune magazine article about T-Mobile executive Sue Nokes provides excellent advice about caring for your customer. I first became aware of T-Mobile when my daughter signed up despite my cautions to avoid new players. It was their pricing that initially caught my eye, but I’ve grown to enjoy their customer service. Here’s Sue’s worker […]
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Here are my top ten posts on media stories I felt compelled to write about. Fascinating topics all, they were picked for their ability to tickle my brain. Click on the ones that interest you! Have a Happy New Year!
1. IT Systems Aren’t Evaluated by Takeover Artists?
2. Spend Less While Innovating More? Yes!
3. Agile Manufacturing […]
My fellow blogger at www.pimpyourwork.com is hosting a New Year’s Resolution Contest. It inspired me to come up with a few for firms wanting to improve strategy execution and innovation:
1. Take a project inventory.
2. Align projects with strategies.
3. Set up a PMO-like organization.
4. Learn about Theory of Constraints.
5. Adopt a value (vs. cost) orientation.
6. Research […]
“How you respond is everything”, I told my daughters when they faced difficult situations in school or at work. I can vividly remember one of them crying and wondering when we were going to get out of a difficult financial situation. She was feeling the pressure of cutting back on things we used to do. […]
Business Intelligence (BI) is experiencing a resurgence, in the media at least, along with associated applications like Sales and Operations Planning (SOP). I met with the owner of a small BI consulting services company for dinner last week and found a kindred spirit related to what the real power of BI is. Large companies have […]
My discussion with agile software development project managers led to some great insights into overcoming barriers to agile transformation. I started by surmising that a company who had done lean manufacturing would be more likely to pursue agile software development. When asked why, I gave the example of “quality at the source” and compared it […]
Showing respect for employees in lean and non-lean environments was recently explored in my periodic email from the www.leanexecutive.com.
First the non-lean approach: hire smart people, give them great latitude in how they do their work to show trust, and hold them to objective measures of performance. On it’s face, this sounds OK.
A lean environment […]
The way it is being touted in the press you would think that the BI related Sales and Operations Planning (SOP) is the latest new approach to managing business performance. In fact SOP is close to a 40 year old business process that allows aggregate planning to be assessed and passed down to specific finished […]
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