Simple Processes

I just came across a new blog called Simple Processes, and I’m sufficiently impressed to add it to my Google Reader, to my blog roll, and to use this post to point my readers to it.  In his current post, Glenn Remoreras discusses the achievement of the highest level of process culture maturity.  This is [...]

Collaboration – Finding a New IT Order in the Chaos!

IT organizations are complex beasts – both in terms of the number of moving parts with their many subtle relationships and in the more scientific use of the term – as in complex systems theory. Mastering 3 Fundamentally Different Value Propositions IT Organizations have to deliver day-in, day-out on three very different value propositions: Operational [...]

How Hard Should Management Consultants Push Clients?

There’s an old maxim in management consulting – “Meet your clients where they are – but know where you want to take them.”  This is usually easier said than done!  Management consulting is inherently dysfunctional.  Clients often bring in consultants because they know they need to change.  The act of bringing in a management consultant [...]

Quality of Executive Administrators as a Proxy for Business Performance

Executive Administrators (EA’s) are typically a very important resource for consultants.  They can provide (or prevent) access to busy executive schedules, to conference room facilities and all sorts of otherwise “hidden goodies” that can make the consulting experience smoother and more effective. (“This is where the special coffee is kept!”) Many of the client engagements [...]

Web 2.0, Viral Video, Business Agility, and Profits!

There was a lot of press last week about the JK Wedding Entrance Dance video that posted on YouTube and went viral – amassing almost 16 million hits since posting on July 19. But That’s Not The Real Story… Much has been made of Sony‘s reaction to the fact that the wedding entrance dance was [...]