...it you’re trying to accomplish?” Wham! You’ve forced the conversation into a productive direction. After a while you understand what your new-found friend is trying to accomplish, and then he...…
...ones if they don’t know what they know and how much they should trust it. Read about epistemological thinking and you’ll bump into Karl Popper, the pre-eminent philosopher of science....…
...turn left or right. It does so based on whether, in past trials, it encountered food or electric shocks in one or the other direction. It “wants” food and also...…
...channel, and at a minimum means mastering one. For example, you know those nasty companies that trick you into installing adware? That’s an unsavory example. Convenience stores are a non-unsavory...…
...intact; and those deliverables have to help the business change and improve as intended. Oh, and the Help Desk has to be helpful. Don’t ever underestimate the importance of the...…
...watch the children. Scheduled telecommuters: Employees who work from home on a regular and predictable basis — for example, commuting Monday and Friday while working from home Tuesday, Wednesday and...…
...time spent familiarizing your colleagues in Marketing (or wherever) with these concepts. At some point in the conversation you’ll familiarize your colleagues with your IT self-assessment, and you can ask...…
...Chief HR Officers aren’t responsible for culture change right now, and won’t be in 2021. Chief Information Officers also won’t be responsible for it in 2021, making them exactly as...…
...rarely worth your time and attention. (You buy whenever you can, building new applications only when you’re desperate.) If you’re a typical IS organization, your core processes are vendor/product selection,...…
...a definition that includes companies and everyone in the company authorized to make a purchase. Think you’ll just ship customer data into and out of components from all three vendors...…
