I am really excited to announce the release of two new additions to the TLO Management Insight Series:
Leading With SPI
Getting to Cloud
Leading with SPI – Driving Productivity and Profit using Strategic Performance Improvement
Leading with SPI provides a detailed, step-by-step guide to driving better strategic definition and more effective and efficient strategic execution. [...]
Read More..>>Gartner, in releasing its 2010 survey of CIO priorities, noted that chief information officers have suffered through a difficult budget tightening period, with budgets essentially cut back to 2005 levels. It appears budgets will stabilize or grow slightly this year, according to Gartner, which surveyed 1,568 CIOs, but it will take some time to overcome [...]
Read More..>>When organizations first start with BI, there tends to be a focus on the visual excitement of the dashboard. At this point, there is a danger that the focus of the group will be on the results, and not the action to drives these results. This is where deconstructing corporate objective KPI’ down to a [...]
Read More..>>I have just done a round up of some of the big technology companies and things are more than a little down in the motivation stakes.
On top of many sales motivational and reward events being cancelled, there is a growing element of distrust of corporate executives. This is not only from the market, but also [...]
During problematic times it is more natural for the body to fall into a deficit-based thinking mode. This is where the focus is on problems rather than opportunties, weaknesses rather than strengths, what resources they don’t have instead of what they do have and what cannot be done rather than what can.
Deficity based thinking changes [...]
This weeks blog is somewhat diverted from the usual corporate theme as we take a look at how the impending ‘Depression’ is set to sort out excessism of both consumers and businesses alike.
We had the Great Depression of the 1930’s and are now witnessing the Greed Depression of the 2000’s. I might be the only [...]
Companies should encourage their employees to day dream – about work that is. Perhaps every meeting should start with a round of “Wouldn’t it be wonderful if……..”
In many instances, employees do not contribute their creativity for fear of ridicule, criticism of not being a team player and supporting the status quo or just generally apathy. [...]
Many organisations are looking to CIO’s to become change agents in the organisation. But is this the best use of the skills of the person in this role – or indeed, as in many cases, does the CIO have the right skills for this job.
CIO’s are commonly joint CTO / CIO’s, with already overloaded schedules [...]
One of the main difficulties software implementers face is the dirty state of corporate data. Yet in most cases, the organisation fiercely defends that their data is clean and quality controlled.
There are many factors that impact corporate data quality beyond that which simple ETL tools can manage. Technology is only half the picture. The other [...]
Much of the focus of business intelligence capability is providing the “right information” to the “right people” at the “right time.” Yet the opposite is also true.
Often, the greatest value of BI is keeping information away from business users, instead allowing process-embedded analytical tools to extract real time information and initiate rules based actions to [...]
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