...Remember the second rule of management, “Form follows function”? Here’s a perfect example. If you want to encourage risk-taking in your organization (and don’t gripe about your company leadership until...…
...wrong. Building applications in-house? Don’t you dare! That would get in the way of your company’s primary mission according to Oracle: Software integration. The right thing to do? Adapt your...…
...batting averages and RBI totals, for example. One reason it works in the batter’s box: There’s no way a batter can fudge the data. For “Management By Technique” to work,...…
...accidental bootstrapping, as proponents of the Singularity theory of cognitive evolution predict. Read Jared Diamond’s The Third Chimpanzee and you’ll gain an appreciation for just how staggeringly unlikely it was...…
...you think in these terms, you need to peel the onion a bit. And if you think in these terms I have one other thing to say to you: Blucher!...…
...require a team, multiple tasks, and a plan. For some organizations, that’s it. Enhancements and projects. But smart ones recognize that projects fail, and they fail in non-linear proportion to...…
...If you ask business executives what IT does worst, the most common answer is probably project completion. Ask them what IT does best, and you hear about application maintenance and...…
...will pay attention to it. (More likely they won’t, but I can hope, can’t I?) Prediction No. 2: Internet 1.5. I don’t think much of Internet 2. I have a...…
...connection, and it lies in one of those well-hidden assumptions that only reveals itself when you’re looking from exactly the right angle. Why do companies outsource? It’s often for the...…
...valid.”) Or compound interest. You take the interest rate (plus 1) and raise it to an exponent equal to the number of years you’re compounding. People who don’t understand compound...…