Letting go of the Details – Part of the Management Challenge
Some of the thoughts that I have been having recently are looking back to some of the challenges I faced many years ago when I became a new manager. As with many people I had always thought myself as an expert, a problem solver, perhaps one of the best in my particular field (even if [...]
Personal Goals and What we Can Do to Encourage them.
Much of what is written about leadership today concentrates on what the leader can do to empower a team to achieve success. Yet a part of that success is about addressing the personal needs and desires of each member of the team. Those personal needs may include non-work goals, for example Alex is attending baking [...]
Business Change & Decision Making: Who Should Lead?
“If driven by IT, the decision is more focused on operational and architectural considerations than business requirements.” This is a comment that seems to have been doing the rounds recently in one form or another. Lets examine more closely to see who should be responsible for project decision making. Actually the information technology department must [...]
Financing the BI Solution: The Corporate Architecture and Complexity of Data Links
This series is looking at the financial factors of building your BI solution. Most larger corporations today already have some form of business intelligence in place so the interest here may be more in applying these principles to upgrading your solution. Yet surprisingly there are always greenfield solutions being applied is some corner of the [...]
Financing the Business Intelligence Project (Buy or Build?)
In order to finance the project it is necessary to decide how the underlying Data Warehouse is to be created. This means the Project Board will need to decide: Whether to use a ready-made solution or have it custom built What degree of external staffing resources are required This is the first part in a [...]
Virtual Teams, Project Slippage & The ‘Fear Factor’
One of the biggest challenges in managing remote, or viurtual projects, has always been one of communication and collaboration. From the management perspective it is not possible to simply walk down the corridor and see the fear in people’s eyes: not fear of physical harm, but the fear that you are going to ask them [...]
Deploying Solutions on a Shoestring Budget
One of the outcomes from the changing economic circumstances faced across the globe is the need to scale down on costs across the corporation. Improvements to business effectiveness are more important than ever before, so change must go on and IT projects still need to be delivered. In a recent article (click here) I indicated [...]
CIO Strategy Development
The role of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) has changed forever. Today’s CIO’s role is more than simply managing IT staff and ensure that systems and networks are up and running. They need to serve as integral members of the senior management team within the corporation. They need to take part in strategic development, organizational [...]
Satisfaction Guaranteed?
Vendors of both software and hardware products are known for disappointing their customers. Often promised features do not exist or are delivered late. In a recent poll IT Leaders have stated that they need their vendors to be truthful about how products meet requirements (34%) and would like vendors to take time to understand requirements [...]
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