...and handle any errors in communication.” Good idea. Combine kludges with brute force. It sure beats using the automated alerts built into commercial transaction processing monitors. “With that said, it’s...…
...we stand for and how we do things around here. Call it “cultural engineering.” When your workforce is small, leaders can engineer the culture through frequent interpersonal interactions. When it’s...…
...information technology professionals we are, or at least should be, evangelists, helping define and promote progress within our organizations. Faith in progress, even though we vary in how we envision...…
...are well-defined. You might, for example, use Java for all server-side business logic, but JavaScript for user-interface programming and small routines where responsiveness is of paramount concern. Neither choice invalidates...…
...prevention. The best-run businesses understand their marketplaces and inner workings well enough to predict the impact of every initiative they envision before they put them into practice. This, in fact,...…
...an employee’s job market. Any IS professional who isn’t a complete loser can find new employment quickly and easily, and probably for an increase in pay. And it costs a...…
...you enforce it anyway. But if, as an employee, the corporation’s requirements supersede your moral code, they supersede it whenever you’re acting as an employee. That includes your interactions with...…
...data analysis. It is a distinctively, incorrigibly human activity that is a complex combination of conscious and unconscious, rational and intuitive, logical and emotional reflection.” Now I don’t mean to...…
...early examples. Enterprise social software won’t be disruptive, for a simple reason. Companies that already recognize the importance of free-form communication among employees will still value it — just do...…
...that we’ve installed and integrated our CRM system, we need to make it support our sales, marketing, and customer service departments. 3. Business optimization: Wait wait wait wait wait …...…