Entries Categorized as 'Altered States'
by Mike Rollings | April 26, 2011 | 1 Comment
Last week’s post “Replacing Taylorism as our Management Doctrine” called for the end of Taylorism. Thankfully, I am not the first to call for the end of Taylorism or to write about human characteristics which businesses frequently ignore. There are many before me who have added significant insights into this debilitating management doctrine and all [...]
Category: Altered States Economy Human Behavior Management Strategic Planning Transformation Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Business outcome mindset, Catalyst-NA, Innovation, Taylorism, Transformation, Value
by Mike Rollings | April 18, 2011 | 11 Comments
Over the last 239 years, organizations have been applying hierarchy, and top-down command-oriented management. This mindset erupted with the dawn of the steam engine in 1771, and in the late 1800s it was honed to razor sharpness by Frederick Winslow Taylor – the father of efficiency thinking and the science of productivity. Taylor’s work is [...]
Category: Altered States Economy Human Behavior Management Strategic Planning Transformation Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Business outcome mindset, Empathy, Innovation, Insight, Transformation
by Mike Rollings | April 11, 2011 | Comments Off
This past Thursday my colleague Kirk Knoernschild pointed out a blog post by Alistair Cockburn about Taylorism creeping into the world of agile. Alistair’s post ignited a discussion within Gartner’s IT1 team reflecting on how it applied to our own agile work practices. What follows are some of my insights about the dangers of Tayloristic [...]
Category: Altered States Applications Cloud Economy Human Behavior IT Governance Management Strategic Planning Transformation Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Innovation, IT Delivery, Production Mindset, Transformation, Uncertainty, Value
by Mike Rollings | January 19, 2011 | 2 Comments
So many things in our life are governed by the idea that we can control the outcome. Take strategy as as an example. For years strategists have operated under the false notion that strategies were conceived, plans created and execution of the plan happened. This resulted in an elite view of conducting strategy and the [...]
Category: Altered States Economy Human Behavior Management Strategic Planning Transformation Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Economy, Empathy, Transformation, Uncertainty, Value
by Mike Rollings | November 15, 2010 | 1 Comment
Too many times I speak with people in organizations who proudly state that they know and achieve their priorities. What once was a hidden list of projects is now given visibility. They consolidate their project list , they sort on value of each business division, and manage resources (e.g. funding, people) more effectively than before. [...]
Category: Altered States Human Behavior IT Governance Management Tags: Business outcome mindset, IT Delivery, Value
by Mike Rollings | October 22, 2010 | 2 Comments
Okay, enterprise architects, this is your chance to join a fellow architect and go scream out the window. Just like in the movie Network where longtime news anchor Howard Beale delivers a live rant claiming that life is ‘BS’, architects can join @chrisvenable as he screams along with other enterprise architects… “I’m as mad as [...]
Category: Altered States Human Behavior IT Governance Management Strategic Planning Transformation Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Communication, Enterprise Architecture, Transformation
by Mike Rollings | August 23, 2010 | 3 Comments
Two weeks ago I wrote that organizations must Invest in the new secret weapon: Humans to unleash innovation, hypothesis generation, investigation, imagination, initiative, and calculated risk taking. Part of this investment is creating an environment that is not based on fear and retribution, but instead one that fosters and appreciates contribution. However, there is a [...]
Category: Altered States Human Behavior Management Transformation Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Insight, Transformation, Uncertainty
by Mike Rollings | August 3, 2010 | Comments Off
I’ve bumped into a number of clients who are looking at new technologies and believe that they must get the new tools to do old tricks before they can be considered useful. For example, I heard this statement from an emerging technology team, “I need to get a VM client, printing, etc. on an iPad [...]
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by Mike Rollings | July 14, 2010 | Comments Off
What alternative causes and actions should an organization consider when business demand has exceeded IT’s capability to deliver? The first reaction that many organizations have to “IT cannot deliver” is to think about it as a production problem. Businesspeople react by engaging outside resources and the IT organization reacts by squeezing out more staff productivity. [...]
Category: Altered States Human Behavior Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, IT Delivery, Production Mindset, Stewardship, Transformation
