Software Quality
No commentsIT management tends to define QA as being simply “testing”. As such, they often view QA as just bringing in some warm bodies to run some test scripts once the coding is all finished. There is actually far more to QA than just testing, and there is far more to testing than just running test […]
Popularity: 6% [?]
Open Innovation – Is it really the next step?
1 comment so farInnovation has always been a proprietary activity conducted largely inside the organization in a series of closely managed steps. Ideas, product design were closely held secrets because innovative and radical design has always provided competitive advantage to the company. The firms by patenting the design/ideas usually created a high barrier for competitors to emulate their […]
Popularity: 13% [?]
McKinsey Survey on Enterprise 2.0
No commentsCompanies that are deriving business value from Web 2.0 tools are now shifting from using them experimentally to adopting them as part of a broader business practice according to the latest McKinsey Global Survey Results titled Building the Web 2.0 Enterprise (you need to register to read the complete article). This survey also shows that […]
Popularity: 20% [?]
New IT Employee Benchmarks
No commentsOrganizations are looking for a well-rounded, enthusiastic people with tech ‘instinct’ to fill their IT department ranks according to Deb Perelman (read her blogs here) in the eWeek article dated June 16, 2008 page 37 (I could not find the link).
According to the article, the CIO and IT managers want to fill their IT department […]
Popularity: 24% [?]
Innovation through Collaboration
No commentsThe expansive reach of collaborative technology can bring together expertise and expedite innovation. This was common underlying conclusion by many industry leaders that presented at “Achieving Innovation through Collaboration” symposium. This symposium was hosted by the Center for Advancing Business through Information Technology at the W. P. Carey School of Business.
One of the interesting […]
Popularity: 32% [?]
Is IT Strategic in the New Age of Innovation?
No commentsWith their new book New Age of Innovation – Driving Cocreated Value through Global Network, C.K. Prahalad and M.S. Krishnan suggest a major shift in organizational structure-one where IT and the respective management structure form the fundamental foundation of a corporation. I have not read the book yet, but I have been checking out […]
Popularity: 52% [?]
‘Just in Time’ Talent Management
2 comments so far“Managing supply chain is about managing uncertainty and variability. This same uncertainty exists inside companies with regard to talent development. Companies rarely know what they will be building five years out and what skills they will need to make that happen; they also don’t know if the people they have in their pipelines are going […]
Popularity: 44% [?]
Simplicity Minded Management
No commentsOrganizations as they gets larger, add layers of complexity to their organization structure to deal with increasing complex external landscape (Also read my other blog titled Globalization and Managaing Complexity)
Ron Ashkenas in his HBR article “Simplicity Minded Management” writes on how to strip complexity out of organizations. He says that a simplification strategy […]
Popularity: 39% [?]
War for Talent?
No commentsResearch by McKinsey titled Making Talent a Strategy Priority finds a contradicting trend (This is an extension to their initial paper in 1997 titled ‘War For Talent’). While there is a rising acknowledgement by the executive that in this globalized knowledge economy, the demand for right ‘talent’ far exceeds the existing supply leading to ‘war […]
Popularity: 46% [?]
Managing Diversity in IT Department through Cultural Intelligence
2 comments so farMike Vizard, Editorial Director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise makes a poignant remark about the importance of diversity in the IT department in his blog “Diversity in IT Has Become a Business Imperative”. I agree with his view that “the great issue of the day in technology is not the technology but rather the people within […]
Popularity: 61% [?]
