A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress.” – Strauss by Joseph P Memorial Day reminds us of veteran’s leadership lessons: the courage, the sacrifice, the commitment and the disciplines., etc. We also celebrate Golden Gate Bridge’s 75th birthday on Sun., what...
Seven Deadly Sins of “Culture So Yesterday”
Monday, May 28, 2012 | comments (2)
Every organization has its unique style of working which often contributes to its culture. Culture is a blend of core values, belief, myth (how people think and do things) that translates to the overall success of any company. it becomes the most invisible, but powerful fabric surrounding in modern business (micro-culture) and society (macro-culture)...
CIO’s Next Practice: De-Learning, Re-Learning & Learning Agility
Sunday, May 20, 2012 | comments
Technology becomes pervasive in modern enterprise today, CIO plays one of the significant business roles; on the other side, the rapidly change business climate also makes CIO feel like to live at the tropical jungle, facing many attacks, in the danger of getting dismissed as techies without business savvy by their executive peers, or getting lagged...
BPM ‘s Mighty Waters
Saturday, May 19, 2012 | comments
BPM walk through the rocky road, and start climbing the value trails, through recent surveys, that BPM is increasingly becoming a part of mainstream management thinking, though only 16% of respondents believe that their organization’s processes are currently at the “optimized” level knowledge and practical experience of the topic, 82% believe...
Three Perceptions of Global Diversity Ranking Report
Thursday, May 17, 2012 | comments
Recently released Globaldiversity ranking report, commissioned by Forbes Insights and conducted by Oxford Economic, based on a weighted composite index to compare and benchmark employee diversity across countries, industries and occupations. The index is comprehensive and takes into account many different types of diversity. Three separate...
EA & BA: A Tale of Two Roles
Thursday, May 17, 2012 | comments
"In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles." -David Ben-GurionEA-Enterprise Architect and BA-Business Analyst are two interesting business roles cause a lot of debate, it may indicate both roles are crucial at hyper-complex enterprise today, also reflect two talent trends in 21st century: enterprise visionary and business solutionary....
Five “C” Words at C-Suite
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 | comments
Modern business executives may inundate with numerous meetings, sometimes they get over-optimistic about blue sky strategy, or get lost in business details, or get limited by their official title, what does big table conference need focus on, which roles C-Level should play: movers & shakers, innovators or thought leaders?1. Customer: the...
Five Myths of Business Architecture –Blue Print or Stove Pipe
Sunday, May 13, 2012 | comments
As an emerging domain, enterprise architecture plays significant role to help shape contemporary enterprise, as today’s businesses become over-complex, hyper-connect and always on. However, the high percentage of EA project failure rate is a good cause to revisit its fundamentals, refresh its knowledge, debunk its myths and make continuous improvement....
Three Big WHEREs to use Big Data
Saturday, May 12, 2012 | comments
By deploying Big Data’s WHY, WHAT, HOW, WHO, consequently we come to discover Big WHEREs need Big Data insight: 1. Decision PointBoth academic and industry research suggest that companies use data and business analytics to guide decision making are more productive and experience higher ROE -returns on equity than competitors that don’t.Big...
Strategy in One Sentence: Ten Creative Insight
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 | comments
“He who fails to plan is planning to fail" - Winston Churchill 1. Strategy is like GPS, with zoomed in vision as destination, lead organization at the right direction, leverage resource, and execute effectively.2. Strategy is like a 'Kite on a String', its about projecting and balancing variables on the business continuum...
Three Principles Modern IT Need Practice
Sunday, May 6, 2012 | comments
Information is like blood, and technology is like backbone for any modern business today, however, most of IT organization has reputation as a cost center than a value creator, a controller than an enabler, a tool than a magic.With the new wave of latest technology trend such as cloud, mobile, consumerization and social, the contemporary IT leaders...
Three Big “WHO”s to Master Big Data
Sunday, May 6, 2012 | comments
Big Data is big deal & big distraction as we put in Three Big “WHY” for Big Data. There are three challenges Big Data presents.: Ocean of data amassing with departmental silos; The second is the old “needle in the haystack” problem; The third is making use of the information by developing framework and methodology to find meaning in it..At...
