There is a chain that runs from technology and people suppliers through the Procurement and HR functions respectively. It continues into the IT department and via the users to your organisation’s market. Thus there are a number of actors involved in this IT value chain. They include: External recruiters. Business development staff of the IT […]
Imagine two people. One is not particularly educated. One is highly educated but not strong on emotional intelligence. Imagine these two people have been forced to live with each other.Outcomes from such a coupling might include: One accusing the other of arrogance. One accusing the other of being ignorant. An inability to pull together if […]
Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers talks of meaningful work, ie work that motivates the worker. Such work has three elements: There is a clear link between work and rewards. The work is challenging. The worker has autonomy over how the work is done. If we apply this to the IT department: There is rarely […]
If so then stop it. Well stop it at least until you have successfully inspired your own staff to buy into your IT department vision. Eventually this will lead to happy and trusting users. Users who are inclined to find out what new technologies can do for the organisation beyond process automation. Better to create […]
It's approaching crunch time for many CEOs. Reckless cost cutting will soon manifest itself in some serious reputational damage. The questions are ' Who do you trust?' and 'Who should you trust?'. CEOs are likely to trust other CEOs (the herd). And are likely to not trust the IT industry (false promises) and the CIO […]
Analyst firm Gartner’s recent survey of 900 CIOs provides us with a sense of where the IT industry is today. 54% of the CIOs have made no budget adjustments. 42% reduced their Q1 budgets by an average of 7.2%, whilst 4% actually increased their budget. Averaged out this equates to an overall budget cut of […]
The festering underbelly of politics was exposed again recently in the UK when it was revealed that the Labour party had planned to launch a smear campaign against key members of the opposition party. The allegations had absolutely no substance. However the perpetrators knew that this didn’t matter as the net effect would be to […]