For those of you who need a little summary of what WE blogged about in January 2008, here is a month-end sum up of projectmanagement411. There are many excellent comments/points of view on these topics- check THEM out and add to the conversation! (The topics are arranged to be sung, with appropriate breathing- first three […]
The McKinsey Quarterly reveals household consumption statistics in India in their article on “India’s Rising Middle Class Wants a Better Life“. Whenever someone complains that India, and other countries, are taking jobs away from the US via “virtual” business processes enabled by technology, I point out the inevitable rise in living standards that will result […]
Innovation. Seemingly a magical, creative art where ideas pop into the mind of relaxed and receiving brain cells (the hilarious “ideation” commercials come to mind where an incredulous manager says, “What are you doing?”, and the existential group leader responds, “Ideating”). Actually, there are NOT many NEW ideas and the “innovation” comes with successful market […]
With global warming firmly pointed at the US wealth generating industrial machine, federal schemes for regulating carbon producing industries and an emerging carbon trading system impact all companies. CFO magazine lays out the pros and cons of all of this in it’s article on “Carbon Trading“. The message is clearly to be aware and start […]
Collaboration reaps many benefits but there are still many frustrations with the process and with the technology. Manufacturing Business Technology magazine reports on a survey of just over 400 (about 1/2 design engineers and 1/2 production/project managers) about collaboration as it relates to design and manufacturing improvements.
Only 20% were “satisfied” with current collaboration efforts citing […]
“Companies should devote R&D to new business models just as they do to new products. A new CEO today will need to preside over a changed business model three or four times in his career, but no one really knows how to do it. It’s not taught in business schools, and there is much to […]
Think of a business model where a firm provides services with a global freelance resource base: is it writing? editing? software development? CFO magazine’s article on “Gaming the System” introduces TopCoder, not only as a global freelance software development operation, but one that has participants compete on providing the best code for it’s application work. […]
Reading Miki Saxon’s post on her blog at Ramp Up Solutions about how customers reduce communication with vendors in hard times made me think of lean environments and the tech boom and bust of the late ’90s through 2001. It’s true that customer to vendor communication tends to stop in hard times- my take is […]
My post on Overcoming Language Barriers facilitated some very nice sharing of resources. Executives and managers! You need to familiarize yourself with this information; you will benefit through improved understanding of what your IT projects should be doing for you:
1. Excellent discussion on Domain Driven development from Sensei at ActiveEngine’s Cool Stuff post. This is […]
I’m still so new to blogging. But I’ve learned a lot about it: how to write better posts, highlighting, commenting, linking, and blinking until my eyes turn red. What seems to be very important is linking to other bloggers who have a lot of traffic- well, duh!
But it takes time- people have to find […]
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