Entries Tagged as 'Business outcome mindset'
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 | 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 | 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 | 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
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
