I regularly take photos of natural wonders. Recently, I witnessed teaming in a natural setting. About a month ago, while walking through a park, I crossed a bridge spanning a large pond and saw three turtles sitting on a rock basking in the sun. What was amazing about this was that all three turtles sat completely …
Monthly Archives: October 2023
Today CIO’s focus on the right things, but is the right attention given to exploring future opportunities?
Chief Information Officers (CIO’s) are often challenged with staying current on technological trends and consistently delivering solution projects. In addition, CIO’s often struggle with allocating the right time, attention and focus towards: strategy, service delivery, issue resolution and the future of technology. The good news is that today’s CIO’s have started to better prioritize time …
Aligning IT (with) the Business
What does it mean to align IT (with) the business? For most organizations, IT management issues continue to be a strategic and organizational challenge. In addition, CIO’s continue to strive for performance gains such as IT becoming more efficient, nimble, and innovative. For IT to be more agile, control costs and align with the business …
Team governance models and traditional relationship based governance models
Firms spend significant time and energy to manage strategic priorities, keep operations functioning and optimally managing project delivery. Traditional hierarchical functional governance assumes that each functional manager makes informed decisions about her or his function, but what happens when project work crosses functional boundaries? Who make the decisions strategically, operationally and tactically? In our experience, …
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It’s 10 AM, do you know how your team is performing?
THE SYNERGIES OF TEAM ENGAGEMENT If your team is not meeting goals and deliverables, it may mean that not all your members are conversant or synchronized on the teams’ intended overall goals. A team is made up of mutually respecting members, where each member is expected to participate in both their individual and overall collective …
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IT management concerns resolved by teams
Interestingly, each year, for the last 10 years, a number of technology management researchers have consistently reported the same IT management concerns. Each of these concerns have centered around common themes to improve the management of IT. In our experience, we have seen these concerns get addressed (and or resolved) when technology and business team …