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 [...]
Good Decision Making
I think that I have good business instincts and given any situation I will make a good decision. Looking back on my career I am probably batting well above average, but is that good enough? In order to make a good decision it is important to have at hand all of the pertinent facts. In [...]
Telecommuting: Essential Tools of the Trade
In order to effectively tele-work the employee must have a good set of tools that will enhance their status in the eyes of their manager and their colleagues. In my earlier article I talked about the fact that Tele-workers face a consistent danger that “out of sight is out of mind” which may affect the [...]
Handling Competing Priorities
We would all like to say “Hold your horses we are only running 1 project this year” however this simply does not meet business reality. For the IT manager as soon as they have defined the annual list of priorities, there is pressure to add new projects, or to change the scope of existing authorised [...]
IT Professional: Gaining Control of Your Work Day
Every professional, irrespective of job title or industry faces a problem of too many deadlines and too many projects competing for our time. We have all seen it before, just when we have it all smoothly running, then new crisis erupts. We constantly have to change our priorities and scramble to get control of our [...]
Is Telecommuting the best model for future business?
By Peter B. Giblett In the Internet age a large number of the workforce responsible for data management can be remote workers. They do not need to travel to office buildings. It can be argued that the Web reverses many business processes: you do not go to work, work comes to you. Yet the average [...]
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