Entries Tagged as '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 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 | 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 | September 29, 2010 | Comments Off
Scientists have studied the human brain to make some amazing discoveries about the ability to learn, adapt, and relearn abilities lost resulting from brain trauma. The Brain Fitness Program — a public television program about brain plasticity, which is the lifelong ability of the brain to reorganize neural pathways based on new experiences—provides insight into [...]
Category: Human Behavior Transformation Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Communication, Empathy, Transformation
by Mike Rollings | September 15, 2010 | 2 Comments
My father was a barber but he was a specialist focused on grooming. Back in medieval days you could go to a barber for just about anything. You could receive a haircut, a shave, a blood letting, a tooth extraction, surgery… the barber could do it all. I’m sure there was confusion about the various [...]
Category: Management Strategic Planning Uncategorized Tags: IT Delivery, 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 16, 2010 | 5 Comments
For any transformation to occur it is important to first recognize there is a problem. Without this critical first step, change cannot occur, bad behaviors persist, and relationships with others deteriorate. This post is about my longtime friend enterprise architecture (friends call him EA) and his journey. EA has been suffering from a raft of [...]
Category: Human Behavior Management Strategic Planning Transformation Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Transformation
