Entries Categorized as 'Management'
by Mike Rollings | February 14, 2012 | Submit a Comment
According to Wikipedia, inversion of control (IoC) is an object-oriented programming practice whereby the object coupling is bound at run time by an “assembler” object and are typically not knowable at compile time using static analysis. The binding process is achieved through dependency injection. In practice, Inversion of Control is a style of software construction [...]
Category: Altered States Contextual Strategist Human Behavior Management Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Business outcome mindset, Transformation
by Mike Rollings | January 3, 2012 | 2 Comments
For frequent readers, you know that I tend to look at issues through a humanistic lens. Many of my client inquiries start with a request for the best way to represent “x”, or the way to describe something so that people will do “y”. Instead, I like to think about “What are you trying to [...]
Category: Contextual Strategist Human Behavior Management Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Innovation, Taylorism, Transformation
by Mike Rollings | December 27, 2011 | Comments Off
Recently, @davegray @tetradian @nickmalik and I (@mikerollings) had a brief twitter exchange about the role of luck in strategy. What is luck anyway? Isn’t it just a happy accident, an unexpected happening, a simple explanation for the unexpected, a serendipitous association that leaves us in awe of the randomness of life? In that context, strategy [...]
Category: Altered States Contextual Strategist Human Behavior Management Strategic Planning Transformation Tags: Behavior, Business outcome mindset, Empathy, Innovation, Insight, Production Mindset, Taylorism, Transformation, Uncertainty
by Mike Rollings | July 18, 2011 | Comments Off
All organizations at some time in their history have experimented, gained knowledge, and operationalized it – experimentation is synonymous with entrepreneurialism. Entrepreneurs test many theories as they launch an idea. They are not afraid of making errors and learning from their mistakes. As they refine ideas and gain more knowledge through experimentation, they eventually reach [...]
Category: Altered States Contextual Strategist Human Behavior Management Transformation Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Business outcome mindset, Economy, Empathy, Innovation, Insight, Transformation, Uncertainty, Value
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 | 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 | 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 10, 2010 | 1 Comment
The notion of value is ambiguous and abstract. An object or an act is not intrinsically valuable. We define what is valuable. We have a choice. Some cultures decided that stones would be used to reflect something of value that can be exchanged — their currency. Eventually, the stones were so large that they could [...]
Category: IT Governance Management Transformation Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Business outcome mindset, IT Delivery, Production Mindset, Value
