Archives for October, 2009
by Mark P. McDonald | October 31, 2009 | Submit a Comment
NOTE: this post is a continuation of a prior discussion on Regulation 1.0. Regulation 2.0 will be shaped as a direct response to the shortcomings of existing regulatory regimes, the potential of emerging technologies and the desire to incorporate state and non-state actors into regulatory regimes. Regulation 1.0 is based on prohibitions defining the wrong [...]
Category: Economy Leadership Personal Observation Strategy Tags: Leadership, Personal Observation, politics, public policy, regulation, Strategy
by Mark P. McDonald | October 30, 2009 | 3 Comments
Proctor and Gamble and their Connect + Develop process for innovation is a leading example in the potential of innovation to restore growth and profitability. Yesterday I was reading The Design of Business by Roger Martin that dedicates a whole chapter on P&G and its innovation process. Latter that day I read an article in [...]
Category: Innovation Leadership Strategy Tags:
by Mark P. McDonald | October 29, 2009 | 2 Comments
Regardless of your political philosophy, the role of government in today’s economy is a reality in most if not all countries. The challenge for elected and government officials, in my opinion, is not the need for regulatory change, but how will they use technology tools to create proactive rather than reactive policies and legislation. Regulation [...]
Category: Personal Observation Strategy Tags: 2010 planning, Business Management, Personal Observation
by Mark P. McDonald | October 28, 2009 | 4 Comments
Prioritizing and managing the demands on IT resources is complex and fraught with risk. IT executives balance across multiple factors making IT planning complex and time consuming. The plan, also known as demand management seeks to address the imbalance between fixed IT resources and an apparent infinite demand for IT solutions. Business executives can find [...]
Category: CIO Leadership Lean Thinking Tools Tags: Economic Recovery, IT and Business, IT management, IT strategy, Management
by Mark P. McDonald | October 26, 2009 | Submit a Comment
I have had the priviledge to talk with you all through this blog for almost a year and more than 160 posts. That is a lot of dialogue and I thank you for it. Anything of that size contains good things and other things that perhaps are best unread. This post highlights entries related to [...]
Category: CFO CIO Leadership Strategy Tools Tags: CIO Leadership, IT and Business, IT management, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | October 21, 2009 | 9 Comments
This post is coming from Gartner’s Annual Fall Symposium in Orlando where more than 1,500 CIOs and another 5,000 other IT executives are gathering to discuss what is going in IT. I had the privilege to talk with them in a session focusing on the 2010 agenda for CIOs. Here are a few thoughts. It [...]
Category: CIO Personal Observation Strategy Tags: IT Leadership, IT strategy, new rules for IT, Strategy
by Mark P. McDonald | October 19, 2009 | 1 Comment
Jim Collins has researched and written extensively about the characteristics of successful companies. Recently he has published a short book, “How the Mighty Fall,” describing the characteristics of companies that fail. Collins defines five stages of decline prior to the company’s failure. Thinking about these characteristics it should be possible to provide insight into changes [...]
Category: 2010 CFO CIO Leadership Strategy Tags: Business Management, Business Strategy, CIO Leadership, IT and Business, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | October 16, 2009 | 1 Comment
When you think of a book about design, you tend to think that it is more about art and form rather than function and process. This book presents a new way of management thinking and problem solving centered on human interaction, innovation, information and insight. Change by Design by Tim Brown the CEO of IDEO [...]
Category: Book Review CIO Innovation Leadership Strategy Tags: Innovation, IT management, Social Computing
by Mark P. McDonald | October 15, 2009 | 4 Comments
Defects are the last of the seven sources of waste aka Muda in lean thinking. Defects in manufacturing are errors, damage, mistakes and other situations that do not confirm to standards and processes. Defects and defect elimination is the focus of a range of improvement methodologies and tools from traditional Total Quality Management (TQM) to [...]
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by Mark P. McDonald | October 14, 2009 | 2 Comments
There are seven sources of waste or muda in lean thinking. One of these sources of waste is unnecessary or excess motion. In manufacturing, workers having to engage in overly strenuous or damaging movements create waste. In IT there are few overly strenuous motions – even in extreme programming. Think about Unnecessary/Excess Motion as the [...]
Category: Lean Thinking Signs of weak management Tools Tags: Business Leadership, Business Management, IT Leadership, IT organization, Tools
