Focus on Efficiency Phase 4: Review your Impact - This amazingly simple step can have a tremendous impact on your rate of success for realizing efficiency benefits from your current project, and for future projects, because the simple step of Review impacts each of the other stages of Focus on Efficiency framework: Plan – Decide – Implement – Review – Repeat.
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In a recent talk about software development, the presenter described an epiphany moment. He was walking past the server room and his boss e...
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Too many "Key Quotes" to mention in one post, The Information Paradox by Fujitsu Consulting with John Thorp, is available as a fre...
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Designed to Fail: Why IT Projects Underachieve and what to do about it by Donald Marchand and Joe Peppard contrasts two paradigms that guid... -
In his 1964 book Scientific Method in Behavioral Science , Andrew Kaplan described his Law of the Instrument: “Give a small boy a hammer, an...
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When considering alternatives we need to take both quality and grade into account. Look for solutions that have the same quality, which ... -
In a local mall a shoe store has a sign out front that tells me to like them on Facebook. Each time I read it, I think, “Why should I?” ... -
In “Managing Transitions, Making the Most of Change” William Bridges describes a neutral zone which happens when you’ve let go of the old tr...
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A previous post laid out the Focus on Efficiency Framework : Plan - Decide - Implement - Review - Repeat. In this post you'll learn the ...
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The results of McKinsey & Company’s eighth annual survey on business and technology strategy ( http://bit.ly/1i8UWR9 ) shows that 61% of...
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To become more efficient, you must plan to become more efficient. Planning will allow you to break the momentum of the day-to-day that kee...
by John L. Ward & Elizabeth Daniel); a great many other readings; and my own thoughts and experiences.