Part 2, Collaboration Tactical Verticals – expanded! (Statement 10)

Highly optimized teams perform at high levels – their productivity exceeds the sum of the parts. Moreover, each member contributes at a higher level and becomes more productive. Of course they also feel more committed and take pride and ownership of accomplishments. If done right, the team is the vehicle to bring game-changing, record-breaking innovations [...]

Part 2, Collaboration Definition! ~ Expanded!

“Consensus is the lack of leadership!” – Margaret Thatcher. I am in total agreement with that statement. As a matter of fact, I absolutely love it and have lived by it for many years. Question: Is collaboration simply a way to gain consensus? If so, then is it valid to say that “Collaboration is the [...]

The Magic of the Dash (BI, the journey)

My wife and I and our three daughters lived 12 hours from her side of the family and 10 from mine. Family is very important in our lives and we always have made the choice to stay connected. My daughters are all teenagers now and one thing is for sure, I have learned a lot [...]

Turducken (Slicing customers differently)

Talk about complexity, I will never forget the day that I first learned about Turducken! For those of you who don’t know, a Turducken is exactly as it sounds; a chicken stuffed in a duck, stuffed in a turkey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turducken). You know, the classical hierarchal relationship of meat taken to the extreme. They go for [...]

Run IT as a Business: Part 2, How?

In “Run IT as a Business: Part 1, Why…?”, I stated that we need to run IT as a business because our very existence is at stake. For IT to remain a factor alive it needs to compete. I talked about IT acting as a monopoly within the average company and how monopolies are bad [...]