As a management consultant, I’ve come to believe over many years of experience that poor process discipline is at the heart of many performance issues. More to the point, I find an incredible amount of misunderstanding about the nature of process thinking and process management, and outright denial that process management is in any way […]
Thanks to my colleague Roy Youngman for suggesting the theme of this (very short) post when we were comparing notes on past consulting clients. Our discussion was about why some are so satisfying to work with while others can be so frustrating. By the way, as I write this I am well aware of the […]
Yes – I can connect the unlikely subjects in this blog’s title. But bear with me a few sentences to set the context.
I recently posted on my time in Portland, Oregon, and my love for the city. I also mentioned the anomalous ‘street people’ scene. Portland is so squeaky clean and seemingly well-run, and yet […]
Much has been written about “Business-IT Alignment” over the years. Alignment can refer to Strategy – the degree to which IT strategy and business strategy are aligned. (This, of course, is both ‘old news’ and yet often not the case in practice. And there’s one school of thought that says there’s no such thing as […]
I just came across a new blog called Simple Processes, and I’m sufficiently impressed to add it to my Google Reader, to my blog roll, and to use this post to point my readers to it. In his current post, Glenn Remoreras discusses the achievement of the highest level of process culture maturity. This is […]