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Enterprise Management
29-04-2012
Due to globalization and changed customer behavior, the protection of shareholder value and reputation management has never been as challenging as nowadays. Political and financial insecurity and legislation has increased. The need for transparency of the organisation and accountability is compulsory. As a result, organizations must plan in advance and do more with less money and resources to guarantee profitability and growth. At strategic level, organizations must effectively prioritize and make changes, based on financial and operational amendments. The aim is to make better decisions and to convert these to commercial achievement.
Document & Content Management adds value if this is part of the company strategy and / or the company mission statement. Information should be based on a “need to know” base and Enterprise Management System should be an application based solution in stat of an ICT infrastructure like Sharepoint. The cost of ownership of an Application driven Enterprise based system is significant lower and adds value in the information cascading of an organization. A nice youtube clip about Enterprise Management: http://www.qualityonline.com/en/221
A more innovative 2012
02-01-2012
In 1912 mechanization was a driver to achieve more production. From steam age to the oil era. Innovation was a key element in this and the Western-World embraced it. 100 years further down the time-line and civilization is on the brink to break through hurdles like travel faster then light, a world wide web as a compulsory commodity captured in smart phones, media accessible everywhere, every time, the world is travel wise within a 24 hours reachable for a descend price and so on.
Change is embedded in humanity. We face it from our childhood to adulthood. Innovation for the sake of innovation will be super-seeded by innovation that is based on clear objectives. The objectives aren’t technical anymore but functional. This fact took almost a 100 years of mankind. The user moved into the center.
It,s clear that a lot of new innovation will come and the speed of change is vast. Good or bad. It doesn,t matter. Happy 2012 and innovate!
Why project managers should use a team building model
22-06-2011
As soon when the project / interim manager pulls the team together. The game starts. Everyone is afraid for the upcoming change. Will I have my job in the near future… What will be the quality of my job after the change and can I deliver the expected ….The driver of these thoughts is fear. Fear is good to a certain extend to facilitate change but a trust foundation block should be established in time by the interim manager to avoid a vortex. The Drexler-Sibbet team building model identifies 7 stages for a team building model. Every stage can have a positive or negative impact.
The start is orientation . What am I doing here? Can I join the team based on my knowledge, confidence or will “not focussed” and “in-securiness ” drive. The interim manager should have a strategy what to do in this phase. A fear impulse and at the same time validate people whothey are (address them on who they are not what they are) gives mixed signals and exposes stake holders.
Trust is the second stage and interacts with orientation. Sometimes this process is going into a loop. Orientation – trust – Orietation etc. Orientation can keep options open and if stakeholders will not participate in the change process. Keeping options open can be beneficial to underpin trust.
Trust should lead to the third stage “What are we going to do”. High level objectives are set and stakeholders will participate or disrupt. A few stakeholders should be critical and facts should be discussed and processed. Objectives will lead to stepping stones and stakeholders can quite often see the impact for the company, organization, business. How will it affect them…If it benefits the stakeholder (whatever the motivation will be) it will be pushed forward if trust is a foundation block. Else it can lead to resistance and people will just calculate the impact and play politics.
The fourth stage is engagement. Engagement gives energy to people and expose the person. The silver bullet question is: “how will we do this”. Many project / interim managers likes a successful engagement part and discuss with the team how will we do this.
The implementation phase, the fifth stage) like fact, figures, craftship, knowledge will be exposed and stakeholders will be addressed on “what people are”. Managing expectation is important to link the discussed to the objectives. If to much information, or to many subjective discussions takes place then this will lead to confusion. Deadlines as expected can only be reached if people act in a professional way and processes are shown in a clear and crisp way.
Pitfalls like to much work, ineffective teams will cripple high performance. However a successful implementation leads to high performance. This will lead to the last stage “improvement”. CPI or Continuos Process Improvement. CPI after a “high performance change” (project / interim) will facilitate change and add value to any company or organization
Many project and or interim managers using Prince2, PMP, 6Sixma and all kinds of documentation and reporting systems but they are not enough aware of the fact that stakeholders need to be managed. Drexler-Sibbet can help and guide you in this
Why Management models are still in 1800
22-05-2011
Information flows in general not to the right place. People need information to manage and take correct decisions but face hurdles in access the correct information from various sources. Until now we use and learn with many management tools to establish a recurrent flow of information. One of the reasons why communication cascading is difficult is based on an sub layer. Non of the management principles are based on a justified qualified system.
There are certain similarities with the way Science exposed it-selves in 1800 or Black Vinyl was pitched in 1900 as Superb audio quality and could not be improved anymore…. A lot of development should be established in the next decades to understand which key drivers made organizations successful and extract the management building blocks. Management should be driven in the future in a scientific way and not by craftship.
Reality Mining fits the zeitgeist and seems to be a building block in the quest for high performance management and the gravity point is the way how the individual deals with communication. A lot of contact with a lot of result works to get effective communication cascading in place.
FarmVille Widow
16-11-2010
I am afraid that a very successful Facebook game from Zynga made me a FarmVille widow. Each day my wife must sell and buy vegetables, harvest crops and build better stables, houses and sheds. The amount of time she invests in this game is unreal. The FarmVille community is also helping each other with tips, tricks and a FarmVille expert in the community acts soon as a professional helpdesk. Even on birth day party they discuss briefly and silent about the achievements at FarmVille. Zynga has success. Lots of success. It seems that loads of especially woman loves the game and spent hours per day to game. The changes within FarmVille application are keeping up with the expectations and demands. I
The game Sims proved, especially, with kids how successful social gaming was a decade ago and FarmVille look-a -like applications will evolve, change, adapt and be part of life for many people of all ages. Social gaming is not even in the 1.0 stage. Commodore 64 (yes I am old) images. But social gaming will be one of those Emerging market services that can run before it can walk and will cannibalize for a substantial part traditional gaming.
The male partners of our family and friends in South Africa, America, UK are also FarmVille widows but are afraid to unify 
Update: See: Gamesbeat
Tablets
16-11-2010
In de oudheid werden al tablets gebruikt om mensen te informeren. Het klei tablet was handzaam en informatie kwam tot de lezer zoals de schrijver het bedoeld had. De tablet drager of terwijl de media heeft eeuwenlang een belangrijke rol gehad voor de mensheid. Na duizenden jaren zijn we via papyrus, boekrollen weer terug op waar we begonnen; “het tablet” en goed ver-markt door Apple als Ipad.
Alle nadelen die de Ipad heeft, wat de kenmerken van de media drager van het tablet zijn, worden breed uit gemeten. Toch is de Ipad als concept een van de beste “hernieuwde” uitvindingen van het klei tablet. Traditionele media dragers zoals boek, krant, magazine kunnen op de Ipad gepubliceerd worden. Geen tonnen papier meer maar simpel informatie tot je nemen van een tablet.
De grafische industrie, uitgevers worstelen met verdien modellen met Internet, kranten oplages lopen terug maar de kansen zijn beter dan ooit. Vernieuwing in publiceren, zelfs op traditionele media dragers zal compleet vernieuwd worden door een oud concept “het tablet”.
Le Monde
24-06-2010
A very good story was tweeted by @rromano about “le Monde: : http://bit.ly/cYxa5A Unreal that publishers of famous newspapers aren’t interested in compulsory change and can’t turn their business into an other direction. Le monde is just one of the newspapers which runs into administration and soon others will follow.
The publishers business revenue models aren’t valid anymore and their business should be (self-)assessed. Even a list of problems, as stated in the link, will only describe risks and short term options. Discussion by strategists, the board, forward thinkers should be engaged. Many newspapers are on the path of Ipad’s and E-readers but to develop business models around this will take much more effort then to just change a media carrier.
But is everything doom & gloom?
The “Le Monde” brand is famous and the infrastructure / resources to support should be rationalized (as stated in the link). No doubt about that. The challenge is to use the technologies to do clever publishing for a fraction of the price for several media carriers (which is widely available), source print and restructure the content making and aggregation.
France achieved so many successes in the enterprise segment of many industries. Where can a connection be made to “Le Monde”?
DAM; very useful Added Value
24-06-2010
Digital Asset Managers fill a gap in an organization which deals with rigid CRM & ERP applications. Content tracking and exchange of vital meta data can easily be done with Digital Asset Managers. A Digital Asset Manager can be the flexible automated workforce that deals with a lot of the the artifacts of IT systems and can even bridge gaps in the infrastructure.
Loads of IT managers try to convince senior management to continue using Sharepoint, which is understandable to a certain point. But Sharepoint works if you have on a top a flexible layer that deals with rigid tekki infrastructure in a manufacturing or document environment.
Media, Packaging and Web Workflows can easily be connected to a DAM and automation can be used to lower human repetitive labour and introduce clever collaboration with third parties. Social Media engines connections can be made through the DAM databases and a meta data value chain can be developed which enhance the position of publishers and brand owners.
The near future is exiting again and a good strategy around this subject will bring Added Value to your business.
Voor de verkiezing
07-06-2010
Rouwvoet 3 dagen ziek, Rutte gaat steeds serieuzer kijken, Halsema lijkt onbetwist leiderschap op de linkervleugel te tonen, Balkende gaat voor Nederland en niet voor zichzelf (?), zelfs de foto is geupdate op twitter van Pechtold en Geert meldt een persoonlijk aspect over zijn gezin keuze. De verharding van de strijd moet er zijn omdat de kiezers niet weten wat ze willen volgens de media en veel “triviale onliners” zou de kiezer moeten gaan trekken om te gaan stemmen en kleur te bekennen.
Naar mijn mening maakt het weinig uit waar op gestemd wordt. De komende bezuinigingen gaat elke burger raken en de meest linkse partij in NL lijkt nog meer gezond verstand te hebben dan menig rechtse partij in de zuidelijke delen van Europa. De coalitie gaat bepalen hoe alles eruit gaat zien en de opgeworpen leiders van voor de verkiezing gaan dermate veel concessies doen tijdens het regeren dat alles gewoon doorgaat op oude voet.
In de UK hebben ze na de verkiezing een deel goed begrepen en dat is de vernieuwing van het kiesstelsel. Genoeg druk op de politiek zal gaan uitwijzen of we dit debat ook aangaan in Nederland. De leukste kieswijzer die ik tot nu toe tegenkwam is: www.brandvoting.nl
Op naar 9 Juni.
Kantel Punt
29-05-2010
Het was complex om een monetaire unie te smeden binnen verdeeld Europa en het is nog complexer om het te behouden. De zuidelijke Eurolanden moeten dermate de broekriem aanhalen dat het veel vergt van een volk om hieraan te voldoen. De huidige generatie politieke leiders binnen Europa lijken een maatje te klein om dit uit te voeren en een ander type leiderschap is nodig.
Europa heeft in het verleden verscheidene kantel punten gekend. De kanteling die er nu gaat komen gaat invloed krijgen op de kwaliteit van leven van de individu. De vanzelfsprekende vrijheid lijkt aanzienlijk meer gecontroleerd en ingeperkt te worden. Of dit nu om gecontroleerd rekening rijden gaat, het registreren van wat het individu uitgeeft of het ongecontroleerd publiceren van sociale gegevens via Facebook.
Een kanteling gaat in de regel gepaard met een sterke economische fluctuatie. China heeft recentelijk haar steun geuit voor de Euro waarbij dit voor een aantal jaren geleden als een onmogelijkheid werd beschouwd. Strenge regelgeving door overheden treft in de regel een volk, volkeren en bestrijd de oorzaken nauwelijks. Een vermeend gevoel van veiligheid.
Het meeveren met wereld economieën, een meer ondergeschikte maar zeer innovatieve rol in technologie en export te nemen naar Azië zonder de eigen identiteit te verliezen kan helpen om mee te gaan door een kantel punt en er sterker uit te komen. Een ieder herkent een seizoen aan de kenmerken van het seizoen. Zal de politiek herkennen, weten wat er nodig is om veilig te stellen wat er opgebouwd is in de afgelopen decennia en continuïteit te waarborgen.
De geprojecteerde kosten besparing van de politieke partijen is een kant, wat er ook voorgesteld wordt. Maar waar zijn de programma’s om te bouwen. Iets afbreken gaat zoveel sneller dan het opbouwen. Na 9 Juni weten we meer, als volk, Nu maar hopen dat er ingezien wordt dat een kantel punt komt en daar meer voor nodig is dan retoriek.