In the next normal, the Internet of Things is the default production environment, and because of the autonomy, diversity and pervasiveness of its actors, the business cannot focus management on being a supply manager of I.T. -- instead it must be a highly competent demand manager of the information used by things - the technology's information.
This takes a look at the architectural constructs that are used for building business intelligence systems and how they are used in business processes to improve marketing, better serve customers, and maximize organizational efficiency.
This presentation contains an outline for the creation of a new type of legal information service: a Themisplaza Marketplace. A Marketplace for legal content, added value apps and personalized legal services.
It is based on the premise that actors in the legal information field and developers are prepared to collaborate in an endeavor that is beneficial for them and their clients.
Right First Time: the importance of "working the portfolio" onceStatPro Group
Automating process and using data just once - but for many purposes - is increasingly seen as the best way for asset managers to respond to the demand for 24/7 reporting capability.
Building an Equitable Tech Future - By ThoughtWorks BrisbaneThoughtworks
At the heart of ThoughtWorks is an ambitious mission: to be a proactive agent of progressive change in the world. Aware of our own privilege, we strive to see the world from the perspective of the oppressed, the powerless and the invisible.
With QUT, here in Brisbane, we’re kicking off a series of research, projects, and conversations about the social impact of tech trends, with a view to building a more equitable tech future. Some of these topics include:
- Algorithmic accountability, transparency, bias & inclusion
- Responsible data practices (privacy and ownership of data)
- Automation and the future of work
- Data use in social media and elections
- Fake news and echo chambers
- Regulating decentralised technologies
- Blockchain for good
- End-user autonomy and privacy
Slides from: Felicity Ruby, Eru Penkman, Clayton Nyakana,
Assoc. Prof. Nic Suzor (QUT) & Dr. Monique Mann (QUT)
In it Together: why “collaboration” is now an essential skillset for asset ma...StatPro Group
Traditionally, asset management teams have worked in silos. But with asset classes and the data becoming more complex, greater collaboration is now needed. Find out why.
Adaptive Work Systems: A Perspective on the Evolution of Socio-Technical Systems in Today's World presentation given by Stu Winby at 2012 STS Roundtable Conference in Canterbury, UK
This takes a look at the architectural constructs that are used for building business intelligence systems and how they are used in business processes to improve marketing, better serve customers, and maximize organizational efficiency.
This presentation contains an outline for the creation of a new type of legal information service: a Themisplaza Marketplace. A Marketplace for legal content, added value apps and personalized legal services.
It is based on the premise that actors in the legal information field and developers are prepared to collaborate in an endeavor that is beneficial for them and their clients.
Right First Time: the importance of "working the portfolio" onceStatPro Group
Automating process and using data just once - but for many purposes - is increasingly seen as the best way for asset managers to respond to the demand for 24/7 reporting capability.
Building an Equitable Tech Future - By ThoughtWorks BrisbaneThoughtworks
At the heart of ThoughtWorks is an ambitious mission: to be a proactive agent of progressive change in the world. Aware of our own privilege, we strive to see the world from the perspective of the oppressed, the powerless and the invisible.
With QUT, here in Brisbane, we’re kicking off a series of research, projects, and conversations about the social impact of tech trends, with a view to building a more equitable tech future. Some of these topics include:
- Algorithmic accountability, transparency, bias & inclusion
- Responsible data practices (privacy and ownership of data)
- Automation and the future of work
- Data use in social media and elections
- Fake news and echo chambers
- Regulating decentralised technologies
- Blockchain for good
- End-user autonomy and privacy
Slides from: Felicity Ruby, Eru Penkman, Clayton Nyakana,
Assoc. Prof. Nic Suzor (QUT) & Dr. Monique Mann (QUT)
In it Together: why “collaboration” is now an essential skillset for asset ma...StatPro Group
Traditionally, asset management teams have worked in silos. But with asset classes and the data becoming more complex, greater collaboration is now needed. Find out why.
Adaptive Work Systems: A Perspective on the Evolution of Socio-Technical Systems in Today's World presentation given by Stu Winby at 2012 STS Roundtable Conference in Canterbury, UK
All over the world, water utilities must to face daily multiple difficulties in order to ensure water supply and sewer service to the citizens. Most of these problems are essentially related with technic and technology. Others with processes, organizations and the rest of the Industry’s implied actors. Others with regulatory issues and the administrative tangled mess around water. And so on… we could follow identifying more factors that, in one way or another, can represent a problem during the critical water supply process
Demystifying AI via Top 10 Key Takeaways of "Unscaled" by Hemant Taneja Alec Coughlin
Artificial Intelligence (AI) isn't the easiest technology to understand but "Unscaled" does a phenomenal job demystifying it through the General Catalyst central investment philosophy and the results the VC firm has delivered.
Transform 2014: Aligning to Your Customer's Systems of Engagement Kofax
We have entered a new "Age of the Customer", where mobile devices are a new norm of customer interaction and cloud computing is quickly gaining ground. During this Kofax Transform 2014 session, Craig LeClair of Forrester Research, explained why your organization must adjust to the new Systems of Engagement your customers are quickly adopting. Learn what steps your organization must consider to engage your customers better and compete more effectively.
Terabytes, Petabytes and now Zetabytes worth of files? Need to manage your chaos? Learning how to tame the information deluge of files - Unstructured and Semi-Structured Data. Like most IT professionals, you're being challenged to keep up with the rapid growth of file-based data in file shares, home directories and unstructured data repositories across your enterprise. You've probably been tasked to make that data more accessible to an increasingly mobile workforce - while controlling costs and ensuring that your security policies are enforced.
Gartner recently forecasted a number of developments that will significantly impact the IT function in years to come, spanning mobile device management, hybrid cloud integration and software-defined networking. As these disruptive technologies continue to mature, IT is well-positioned to drive overall corporate success, enabling organizations’ innovative capabilities to really shine through.
What suggestions do you have or can provide? What solution direction would you like to see?
Insanity has been famously defined as "doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results". So what is it aout your CMDB that is making you crazy: is it the results, or is it the doing? How close are you to a drawing board?
Framework for measuring enterprise agilityTushar Mathur
A thought paper on - what enterprise agility means, why it matters, how enterprises can measure enterprise agility to continue to disrupt and re-invent themselves.
Digital Innovation - A framework of ImpactsMalcolm Ryder
Digital modes of IT-driven change are so varied that it is difficult to understand what an "enterprise" approach to coherent transformation is really based on. Researchers such as Archestra and Ventana offer a way to see the forest through the trees.
All over the world, water utilities must to face daily multiple difficulties in order to ensure water supply and sewer service to the citizens. Most of these problems are essentially related with technic and technology. Others with processes, organizations and the rest of the Industry’s implied actors. Others with regulatory issues and the administrative tangled mess around water. And so on… we could follow identifying more factors that, in one way or another, can represent a problem during the critical water supply process
Demystifying AI via Top 10 Key Takeaways of "Unscaled" by Hemant Taneja Alec Coughlin
Artificial Intelligence (AI) isn't the easiest technology to understand but "Unscaled" does a phenomenal job demystifying it through the General Catalyst central investment philosophy and the results the VC firm has delivered.
Transform 2014: Aligning to Your Customer's Systems of Engagement Kofax
We have entered a new "Age of the Customer", where mobile devices are a new norm of customer interaction and cloud computing is quickly gaining ground. During this Kofax Transform 2014 session, Craig LeClair of Forrester Research, explained why your organization must adjust to the new Systems of Engagement your customers are quickly adopting. Learn what steps your organization must consider to engage your customers better and compete more effectively.
Terabytes, Petabytes and now Zetabytes worth of files? Need to manage your chaos? Learning how to tame the information deluge of files - Unstructured and Semi-Structured Data. Like most IT professionals, you're being challenged to keep up with the rapid growth of file-based data in file shares, home directories and unstructured data repositories across your enterprise. You've probably been tasked to make that data more accessible to an increasingly mobile workforce - while controlling costs and ensuring that your security policies are enforced.
Gartner recently forecasted a number of developments that will significantly impact the IT function in years to come, spanning mobile device management, hybrid cloud integration and software-defined networking. As these disruptive technologies continue to mature, IT is well-positioned to drive overall corporate success, enabling organizations’ innovative capabilities to really shine through.
What suggestions do you have or can provide? What solution direction would you like to see?
Insanity has been famously defined as "doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results". So what is it aout your CMDB that is making you crazy: is it the results, or is it the doing? How close are you to a drawing board?
Framework for measuring enterprise agilityTushar Mathur
A thought paper on - what enterprise agility means, why it matters, how enterprises can measure enterprise agility to continue to disrupt and re-invent themselves.
Digital Innovation - A framework of ImpactsMalcolm Ryder
Digital modes of IT-driven change are so varied that it is difficult to understand what an "enterprise" approach to coherent transformation is really based on. Researchers such as Archestra and Ventana offer a way to see the forest through the trees.
Digital Transformation and Application Decommissioning - THE RESEARCHTom Rieger
The resulting research paper from the August 2020 market surveying of 1000s of IT professionals around the current state of affairs and what is happening over the next 18-14 months.
Where does IT value come from? IT is not money. IT is a tool. To understand the value of a tool, what must be shown is how its use makes a difference. The question of "value" is about what difference is important and how that difference is made. If that's not what you're managing, then you're not managing value.
DRIVERS AND IMPEDIMENTS TO DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION - THE RESEARCHTom Rieger
In August 2020 EnterpriseDB and Platform 3 jointly asked 1000s of IT professionals their perspectives and priorities. This paper is a detailed view of those results.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING Goodbuzz Inc.
Driving Tangible Value for Business. Briefing Paper. Interest in AI/ML is soaring, but confusion and hype can mask the real benefits of these technologies. Organizations need to identify use cases that will produce value for them, especially in the areas of enhancing processes, detecting anomalies and enabling predictive analytics.
Learn How to Maximize Your ServiceNow InvestmentStave
Understand how leading companies are adopting an aPaaS strategy
Learn the evolution of ServiceNow's platform capabilities
Assert IT's influence over shadow IT practices
Strategic structures for aligning Cooperation_the Enterprise.pdfMalcolm Ryder
A comparison of four different organizational models for co-operative pursuit of goals. Emphasis is on distinguishing "enterprise" as a specific configuration rather than as a catch-all synonym for "business".
Inclusion is the Equity of Diversity 04.19.23.pdfMalcolm Ryder
In a society that contains multiple cultures, the ideas of multi-culturalism and diversity appear to be the same goal, but social behaviors have their own systems outside of culture that predispose inclusion or exclusion at any level of community. This description navigates and categorizes the constellation of terms and dynamics presumed to characterize equitable inclusivity in a heterogeneous culture.
A Semantic Model of Enterprise Change.pdfMalcolm Ryder
This presentation is a distillation of language used to describe the scope and configuration of change managed at the enterprise level. Its goal was to find a way to drastically reduce the vocabulary necessary to model managed change, and to have the model be far more intuitively familiar.
Being simple-minded about complexity does not help to understand it nor to work with it successfully. This breakdown abstracts and compiles the many aspects of recognizing, creating, and managing with complexity as is consistent across many different domains of effort.
As examples of wheels not needing to be reinvented, medicine and technical support both have profound and extensive practice knowledge in seeing through symptoms to causes, for problem-solving. That experience feeds back lessons learned into future designs of environments, processes and products or services - but also into problem-solving itself. This discussion arranges various aspects of that learning into a practical reference for maturing the decision-making capability needed on demand. This arrangement is work in progress.
We accept that everyone has Bias, and the study of that is exhaustive if not complete. But we continue to ask Why we have bias; the answer is that we need it.
Debating about design in the social media of business seems aimed at designing Design itself; but the results so far are not very persuasive. This is a significant knowledge management problem.
Change Management now requires a new perspective on management itself, to cope with the new normal of increasingly frequent and varied demand for change.
Alignment of Value and Performance - Reference modelMalcolm Ryder
Performance is meaningless unless it also amounts to needed value. The activity that generates this relationship is visible in a hierarchy of logical dependencies. The vocabulary for this visibilty is already very common; here it is also fully disambiguated.
As opposed to execution, delivery, and other common terms of progression, "production" is a perspective that directly relies on designing continuous value-driven activity, not on achieving a single prescribed outcome. Enabling active capability is the management concern, and value creation is the experience.
Management's relationship to complexity is clarified in this short piece based on revisiting basic definitions. No special domain expertise is required but the argument applies to all domains.
A meeting is a group behavior, and the value of the meeting will depend on why people will do what they do with it. This framework explains the cause and effect linkages occurring within a meeting that actually is needed instead of merely held.
Not all workgroups are teams, and teams may not be enough to cover the work needed to meet requirements. This framework identfies the scale of workgroup and scope of requirements that distinguishes one type of workgroup from another.
Waterfall was never so much of a development management method addressing a customer demand issue. Rather, it is a build management method addressing a product management issue. See how.
The future of work depends on the future of managed change. This overview identifies why work, as arranged by organizations, is modified both in practice and policy but must become focused primarily on why the worker works.
The design and redesign of organizations today more regularly pursues agility, but very often it thinks that a given model will cause it, rather than discovering its best model from knowing what agility needs. This discussion surveys the underpinning archihtecture of agility, from which to cultivate or discover a site's appropriate model(s).
The purpose of organization is to influence effectiveness, and the logic behind that is practiced through the model of organization. This notebook compiles a common logic behind all models of organization.
Managed Change efforts overall still fail at 66% to 75% of the time. This means that the prevailing perspective on how to "make" change is defeating most other factors. Here's why.
Comparing Stability and Sustainability in Agile SystemsRob Healy
Copy of the presentation given at XP2024 based on a research paper.
In this paper we explain wat overwork is and the physical and mental health risks associated with it.
We then explore how overwork relates to system stability and inventory.
Finally there is a call to action for Team Leads / Scrum Masters / Managers to measure and monitor excess work for individual teams.
Enriching engagement with ethical review processesstrikingabalance
New ethics review processes at the University of Bath. Presented at the 8th World Conference on Research Integrity by Filipa Vance, Head of Research Governance and Compliance at the University of Bath. June 2024, Athens
Public Speaking Tips to Help You Be A Strong Leader.pdfPinta Partners
In the realm of effective leadership, a multitude of skills come into play, but one stands out as both crucial and challenging: public speaking.
Public speaking transcends mere eloquence; it serves as the medium through which leaders articulate their vision, inspire action, and foster engagement. For leaders, refining public speaking skills is essential, elevating their ability to influence, persuade, and lead with resolute conviction. Here are some key tips to consider: https://joellandau.com/the-public-speaking-tips-to-help-you-be-a-stronger-leader/
Org Design is a core skill to be mastered by management for any successful org change.
Org Topologies™ in its essence is a two-dimensional space with 16 distinctive boxes - atomic organizational archetypes. That space helps you to plot your current operating model by positioning individuals, departments, and teams on the map. This will give a profound understanding of the performance of your value-creating organizational ecosystem.
12 steps to transform your organization into the agile org you deservePierre E. NEIS
During an organizational transformation, the shift is from the previous state to an improved one. In the realm of agility, I emphasize the significance of identifying polarities. This approach helps establish a clear understanding of your objectives. I have outlined 12 incremental actions to delineate your organizational strategy.
Senior Project and Engineering Leader Jim Smith.pdfJim Smith
I am a Project and Engineering Leader with extensive experience as a Business Operations Leader, Technical Project Manager, Engineering Manager and Operations Experience for Domestic and International companies such as Electrolux, Carrier, and Deutz. I have developed new products using Stage Gate development/MS Project/JIRA, for the pro-duction of Medical Equipment, Large Commercial Refrigeration Systems, Appliances, HVAC, and Diesel engines.
My experience includes:
Managed customized engineered refrigeration system projects with high voltage power panels from quote to ship, coordinating actions between electrical engineering, mechanical design and application engineering, purchasing, production, test, quality assurance and field installation. Managed projects $25k to $1M per project; 4-8 per month. (Hussmann refrigeration)
Successfully developed the $15-20M yearly corporate capital strategy for manufacturing, with the Executive Team and key stakeholders. Created project scope and specifications, business case, ROI, managed project plans with key personnel for nine consumer product manufacturing and distribution sites; to support the company’s strategic sales plan.
Over 15 years of experience managing and developing cost improvement projects with key Stakeholders, site Manufacturing Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Maintenance, and facility support personnel to optimize pro-duction operations, safety, EHS, and new product development. (BioLab, Deutz, Caire)
Experience working as a Technical Manager developing new products with chemical engineers and packaging engineers to enhance and reduce the cost of retail products. I have led the activities of multiple engineering groups with diverse backgrounds.
Great experience managing the product development of products which utilize complex electrical controls, high voltage power panels, product testing, and commissioning.
Created project scope, business case, ROI for multiple capital projects to support electrotechnical assembly and CPG goods. Identified project cost, risk, success criteria, and performed equipment qualifications. (Carrier, Electrolux, Biolab, Price, Hussmann)
Created detailed projects plans using MS Project, Gant charts in excel, and updated new product development in Jira for stakeholders and project team members including critical path.
Great knowledge of ISO9001, NFPA, OSHA regulations.
User level knowledge of MRP/SAP, MS Project, Powerpoint, Visio, Mastercontrol, JIRA, Power BI and Tableau.
I appreciate your consideration, and look forward to discussing this role with you, and how I can lead your company’s growth and profitability. I can be contacted via LinkedIn via phone or E Mail.
Jim Smith
678-993-7195
jimsmith30024@gmail.com
The case study discusses the potential of drone delivery and the challenges that need to be addressed before it becomes widespread.
Key takeaways:
Drone delivery is in its early stages: Amazon's trial in the UK demonstrates the potential for faster deliveries, but it's still limited by regulations and technology.
Regulations are a major hurdle: Safety concerns around drone collisions with airplanes and people have led to restrictions on flight height and location.
Other challenges exist: Who will use drone delivery the most? Is it cost-effective compared to traditional delivery trucks?
Discussion questions:
Managerial challenges: Integrating drones requires planning for new infrastructure, training staff, and navigating regulations. There are also marketing and recruitment considerations specific to this technology.
External forces vary by country: Regulations, consumer acceptance, and infrastructure all differ between countries.
Demographics matter: Younger generations might be more receptive to drone delivery, while older populations might have concerns.
Stakeholders for Amazon: Customers, regulators, aviation authorities, and competitors are all stakeholders. Regulators likely hold the greatest influence as they determine the feasibility of drone delivery.
Integrity in leadership builds trust by ensuring consistency between words an...Ram V Chary
Integrity in leadership builds trust by ensuring consistency between words and actions, making leaders reliable and credible. It also ensures ethical decision-making, which fosters a positive organizational culture and promotes long-term success. #RamVChary
Employment PracticesRegulation and Multinational CorporationsRoopaTemkar
Employment PracticesRegulation and Multinational Corporations
Strategic decision making within MNCs constrained or determined by the implementation of laws and codes of practice and by pressure from political actors. Managers in MNCs have to make choices that are shaped by gvmt. intervention and the local economy.
A presentation on mastering key management concepts across projects, products, programs, and portfolios. Whether you're an aspiring manager or looking to enhance your skills, this session will provide you with the knowledge and tools to succeed in various management roles. Learn about the distinct lifecycles, methodologies, and essential skillsets needed to thrive in today's dynamic business environment.
Specific ServPoints should be tailored for restaurants in all food service segments. Your ServPoints should be the centerpiece of brand delivery training (guest service) and align with your brand position and marketing initiatives, especially in high-labor-cost conditions.
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