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Thoughts on business architecture, technology strategy, project delivery, and helping organizations move difficult initiatives forward.
Years ago, I asked a business leader who was responsible for several subsidiary companies a simple question: “What is your strategy for these two companies?” Her answer came…
A strategy meeting or presentation can feel inspiring while everyone is in the room, receptive to the ideas and agreeing on the direction, but that feeling usually fades…
Have you ever been halfway through discussing a solution when someone finally asks the question that probably should have come first: what problem are we actually trying to…
Have you ever been in an executive meeting when a project comes up and someone asks, “Remind me what that one is again?” The project may have been…
Working in the IT industry, the concept of “slowing down” isn’t something you hear often. If anything, the industry is a constant push to move faster. While listening…
Have you ever been asked by an employer if you are “up for the challenge” or “in it for the future,” or more bluntly, “are you all-in”? It…
I did not think I would hear this question as often as I do. Yet it seems to be the number one question people ask of me, right…
Have you ever worked in an organization where everyone insists they don’t really have “projects,” but somehow there are always dozens of things people are working on that…
Jim Collins is credited with the business flywheel concept. In Good to Great, Collins describes the image of a massive flywheel that takes enormous effort to move at…
Have you ever watched a project that seemed to be progressing well suddenly become the subject of endless discussion? Conversations start to stretch well beyond the time they…