Entries Categorized as 'Human Behavior'
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 | April 4, 2011 | 6 Comments
Gamification, where organizations incorporate game dynamics into applications, is one of the latest trends. Many view it as a silver bullet to load into marketing websites, innovation tools, worker productivity tools, ERP systems, and social environments. The hope is that these applications will attract and retain ‘players’ that will get hooked into playing their new [...]
Category: Human Behavior Management Transformation Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Empathy, Innovation, Transformation
by Mike Rollings | February 14, 2011 | 2 Comments
National Public Radio (NPR) seems to wake my imagination. This morning they had a story about IBM’s Watson. Watson is IBM’s computer that is squaring off against two Jeopardy champions – the shows air for the next 3 days. I wonder how many people will begin to believe that Watson actually thinks? I’m sure it [...]
Category: Human Behavior Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Business outcome mindset, Innovation, Insight, Uncertainty
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 | December 6, 2010 | 1 Comment
Friday night my children and I had the pleasure to hear Greg Mortenson speak at the St. Louis County Library. Mortenson is a humanitarian and advocate for children’s education in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He is the author of “Three Cups of Tea” and “Stones to Schools“, two books about his life’s work to promote peace [...]
Category: Human Behavior Transformation Tags: Behavior, Communication, Empathy, Transformation
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 29, 2010 | 5 Comments
Recently, Twitter #entarch has erupted in the recurring discussion about the value of enterprise architecture. I say ‘recurring’ because illustrating value is a constant challenge for IT and especially for EA practitioners. This particular Twitter value discussion falls mainly into two piles: Value theory Value realities Value theorists describe how value “should” work in an [...]
Category: Human Behavior Management Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Business outcome mindset, Enterprise Architecture, 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 | October 20, 2010 | 2 Comments
I have several creative friends. Some are musicians, some photographers, one a playwright, and one friend in particular (Tim) is a performance artist. Tim’s art comes in many forms. He works with autistic children, he tends bar, he plays a manual typewriter and recites as part of jazz improvisation, and he creates sculpture with metal [...]
Category: Economy Human Behavior Transformation Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Empathy, Innovation, Transformation, Uncertainty
by Mike Rollings | October 11, 2010 | Comments Off
Certainty restricts an organization’s vision about the future and limits the range of expression required for a co-creative environment. Like a blinders for a horse they prevent an organization from noticing what is going on around them and to adapt to what lies outside their limited view. Perception is a creation of the mind and [...]
Category: Human Behavior Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Uncertainty
