...instead of Salesforce.com Implementation; Evidence-based Decision-making Initiative instead of Business Intelligence Implementation. The impact is surprisingly large. End Sidebar.) The plan is generally limited to those tasks required to build...…
...(2) are involved in strategic planning for a company in the industry. Plus, you’re digitally literate and consume science fiction at least occasionally — two essential qualifications. And yes, while...…
...walking your management through it? Nope. You’ll win if, when you announce your decision, you remind your management of the facts of life: that you’ll have one winner and four...…
...IT leaders: If you’ve taken your organization as far as you can and can’t see the next logical step, get out while your reputation is intact. Even if your replacement...…
...Thinking, Fast and Slow, when you run into your friend Gus, you don’t need evidence that it’s Gus. Unless you’re a schmuck or trapped in a horror movie, you see...…
...intended consequences never did mean what most people think it means. The American sociologist Robert Merton explored the subject in depth back in 1936 (I’m relying on Rob Norton’s excellent...…
...of its proselytizers, not to mention their annoying decision to build their impenetrable jargon on a Japanese vocabulary, instead of the gratuitous Latin that lawyers and George Will prefer or...…
Blame Lord Kelvin, who once said, “When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure...…
...in (for example) Visual Studio that doesn’t mean you can avoid JavaScript. And PERL. And … Implementing functionality: Choices here are to either build everything to a common plan or...…
...all the time. Want an example? How much time, energy, and budget have you expended on disaster recovery planning and virus protection? Compare that to the time, energy and budget...…
