Technology, Strategy, People and Projects
This is a guest post by Elmer Boutin. I read with great interest Eric’s post of January 31, 2012 entitled Do things when you should … not when you have to. I agree with what he wrote, and it really got me going about something I’ve been mulling over in my head for several weeks: [...]
I’m currently reading Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (amazon affiliate link). In one of the first few chapters, Dr. Kahneman describes the “invisible gorilla test” popularized by psychologists Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris. The test consists of a team of 3 people dressed in black and a team of 3 people dressed in white [...]
Dave Brock just published a post that resonated with me. The title of the post – Order Taker or Solution Creator – hits home in the IT world. In the article, Dave describes what he calls ‘order takers’ and ‘solution creators’. The order taker does a good job of working with clients to deliver a widget [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. In my last post titled Driving transformation with IT starts with transforming IT, I pointed out a nice video on the Enterprise CIO Forum of Canadian Pacific’s CIO Heather Campbell titled describing her work of transforms the Canadian Pacific IT function by focusing on the needs of the business (among other [...]
I ran across a very interesting article titled Why Gursky’s Photo of the Rhine is the World’s Most Expensive Photo that discusses a photograph…woops…”work of art” titled Rhein II by Andreas Gursky. This piece of art just sold for $4,338,500. Let’s take a look at this expensive photo…I mean “art work”: Interesting photo. In my [...]
I just ran across an interesting research report titled “Doomed from the Start? Why a majority of business and IT teams anticipate their software development projects will fail” The report provides the results of a survey completed by 596 IT and Business executives with the majority of respondents being IT professionals (476 out of 596 [...]
We all like to think that we are that one person in our family, team or company that is irreplaceable. The bad thing…most of us are replaceable. Sure…you can try to be the best at what you do…but unless you ARE the BEST at what you do, you are replaceable. Very few people can be the [...]
Last night, I watched Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations show on the Travel Channel. I’m a fan of Mr. Bourdain’s…I read (actually listened) to Kitchen Confidential (amazon affiliate link) and really enjoyed it. I’ve watched many of the No Reservations episodes and have always come away from each show with some new-found piece of of knowledge and/or appreciation about [...]
Everyone has an agenda. I”m not talking about a meeting agenda…I’m talking about the personal agenda that everyone has built their lives around. This agenda is the driving force for everything a person does. Its the motivation behind most decisions a person makes throughout their personal and professional life. This personal agenda can be either [...]
I ran across a great post this morning over on Boy Genius Report titled Open letter to BlackBerry bosses: Senior RIM exec tells all as company crumbles around him. Its a long letter but very very insightful. First off there are a lot of lessons to learn from that letter. A couple of key sentences: You have many [...]
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