Entries Tagged as 'Innovation'
by Mike Rollings | April 22, 2013 | Comments Off
Last week my report “Field Research Summary: The Changing IT Career” was published on Gartner.com. This report summarizes the findings from our field research project focused on how goals, expectations and trends are affecting IT careers from the practitioner’s point of view. This field research incorporated both a Gartner Research Circle survey and in-depth interviews [...]
Category: Altered States Contextual Strategist Engagement Human Behavior Management Transformation Uncategorized Tags: #gartnercat, Behavior, Empathy, Innovation, Jobs, Non-technical Skills, Transformation
by Mike Rollings | March 20, 2013 | 1 Comment
My friend and colleague Jack Santos sent me a link to the NYTimes story “Looking for a lesson in Google’s Perks” by James B. Stewart. Jack knows I am interested in work from home and anything else for that matter related to employee engagement. The article states that “Google doesn’t require employees to work from [...]
Category: Engagement Human Behavior Management Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Business outcome mindset, Communication, Innovation, Non-technical Skills
by Mike Rollings | November 5, 2012 | Comments Off
Last week our “2013 Professional Effectiveness Planning Guide: Coming to Terms With the Nexus of Forces” was published on Gartner.com. It discusses the Nexus of Forces — social, mobile, cloud and information — and the profound implications for IT. The nexus forces combine to provide a platform and impetus for innovation, but many organizations are [...]
Category: Altered States Contextual Strategist Human Behavior Management Transformation Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Empathy, Innovation, Jobs, Non-technical Skills, Transformation
by Mike Rollings | July 19, 2012 | 1 Comment
The Gartner for Technical Professionals (GTP) research team is fond of gearheads. You know, the technical professionals who get things done within organizations, the ones who find the answers. For the past 5 years the Professional Effectiveness team has been doing gearheads workshops at our Catalyst conference to help technical professionals in different aspects of [...]
Category: Contextual Strategist Human Behavior Management Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Business outcome mindset, Catalyst-NA, Empathy, Innovation, IT Delivery, Non-technical Skills
by Mike Rollings | April 9, 2012 | 1 Comment
Lately there has been a lot of buzz about employers asking potential employees for their Facebook passwords. I heard yet another story about this over the weekend. While I don’t feel employers should be asking for social media passwords, this post is more about the irony that employers want social passwords but are not asking [...]
Category: Altered States Contextual Strategist Economy Human Behavior Management Transformation Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Communication, Economy, Empathy, Innovation, Jobs, Non-technical Skills, Taylorism, Transformation
by Mike Rollings | April 5, 2012 | 1 Comment
My report “Job Postings – Hiring for IT’s Past” published today on Gartner.com. This Gartner for Technical Professionals (GTP) report is a wake-up call for IT organizations because it shows that most IT organizations are hiring for the wrong requirements. In late 2011 and early 2012 we sampled current job postings in six major job [...]
Category: Altered States Contextual Strategist Economy Human Behavior Management Transformation Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Communication, Economy, Empathy, Innovation, Jobs, Non-technical Skills, Taylorism, 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 | November 21, 2011 | Comments Off
The “i” generation – not quite the selfish focused gang that was recently called out in the UK by its Chief Rabbi and noted by c|net’s Chris Matyszczyk. Like prior generational movements, this one too is misunderstood. The “i” generation is about the importance of the individual which is profoundly different than focusing selfishly on [...]
Category: Altered States Contextual Strategist Human Behavior Transformation Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Economy, Empathy, Innovation, Insight, Steve Jobs, Taylorism, Transformation
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
