Fascinating job requirement received in my email:
….urgent Program Manager position…Client is really after large scale enterprise systems project management experience. They want someone with experience working in a PMO, but hands-on enough to build project plans. It’s not enough to just execute a plan, they have to know how to come up with a plan […]
I have some great, reliable, commentors. One of them is Alan Wilensky. Commenting on my June 7th post ““Fewer, More Successful Projects”: The New HP” he gave one of his great personal examples of an IT organization run amuck. Here is his comment (edited by me) and my response:
Alan W: A while ago, I was […]
Jim Lee’s economic analysis in APICS’ on-line newsletter (subscribe at www.apics.org) covers several myths. The first two are pretty straight forward. Myth number 3 takes a bit more brain power:
Myth #3: The stagflation of the 1970s will not be repeated because economies today are more immune to the effects of rising energy prices.
Jim does a […]
Jim Lee’s great perspectives on our supposed economic woes are mythologized in APICS’ on-line newsletter (subscribe at www.apics.org). Myth number 2 of 3 is:
Myth #2: With soaring food and energy prices, the official numbers on inflation (around 4 percent) are grossly misleading.
He reveals that food and energy are 6% of typical household budgets so don’t get […]
Jim Lee’s economic analyses in the APICS on-line newsletter are a breath of fresh air. I’ve written about his thoughts before because he strips the discussion down to the facts of the matter. His latest demystifies today’s economy by attacking several myths. Here’s the first:
Myth #1: The consensus is that the world economy is in […]
Microsoft’s CFO Chirs Liddell’s CFO magazine interview hit on some background items of interest:
CFO: Can you think of another CFO who has an undergraduate degree in civil engineering and a master’s degree in philosophy?
Mr. Liddell: I have to be honest, I can’t! But it’s been very useful for me, a combination of the mainstream analytical […]
CFO magazine highlights a now well known lawsuit: Waste Management against SAP. To their credit, CFO does a well balanced analysis of the situation:
In most vendor-client disputes, both sides share some blame, experts say. Software vendors “definitely tell their customers what they want to hear,” says Charles Schley, founder of ERP Implementation Consulting Group. On […]
IT projects not linked to a company strategy are a waste of resources. Finally, a refreshing Computerworld article on this topic hits the nail on the head:
If you want high-value IT, you need a high-impact strategy. The important thing is to apply the brainpower to do this and to work with other executives to make […]
Marketing message experts, driven by global warming fever, are more often linking green with lean. The Association for Operations Management’s annual conference brochure (no link but check out www.apics.org) indicates that “green is the new lean”. It can be if you use lean approaches, concepts and culture change.
Value stream mapping, a lean analysis approach, is […]
My fascination with how global warming and green messages are being used and abused by companies continues with a brochure advertising The Association for Operations Management’s annual conference (go to www.apics.org for more info). In it they promote a “learning path” called “sustainability/green” (my emphasis provided):
“Green is the new lean. Attend this Learning Path to […]
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Written by Kim Beasley [email] for b5media.
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