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When IT culture changes with or without you

When IT culture changes with or without youLast paragraph is the punch lineIf the cultural changes aren't in sync with your ethics and higher ups aren't listening, then it's time to hand in the resignation. Otherwise, assuming you can stand it, adapt, positively influence the culture as best you...

Tags: corporate value, IT culture change, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-08-07

Why ed tech is like my Honda Pilot

Why ed tech is like my Honda PilotWell saidYour heart's in the right place. The used Honda ties in well. Corporate culture has bred a throw-away society that I thought your life-cycle road was heading towards. Administrators running on tight-low budgets like those of you in education...

Tags: corporate culture, desktop, Honda Motor Co., server

Discussion threads 2007-12-17

Strategies For Success: When Corporate Cultures Clash

Too often, mid-sized businesses overlook the effect of corporate culture on the success of enterprise resource planning ERP. This paper highlights important tips for successful ERP implementations and discusses how corporate culture clashes can be avoided when confronted early in the adoption cycle of enterprise applications. This...

Tags: Strategy, Corporate Culture, ERP, Leadership, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Management, Software

White papers 2007-10-15

Enterprise 2.0 as a corporate culture catalyst

Enterprise 2.0 as a corporate culture catalystSoftware specifically designed to catalyze cultural transformationThis is exactly our driver at OpenTeams. We started with the question "how can organizations change to be more innovative, engaging, and entrepreneurial?", then built web-hosted collaborative software designed explicitly to drive that cultural change (with integrated...

Tags: Groupware, Enterprise 2.0, corporate culture catalyst, collaboration, corporate culture

Discussion threads 2007-05-07

Enterprise 2.0 as a corporate culture catalyst

Ive only recently had a chance to catch up and read Tom Davenports post a few weeks ago about his skepticism of Enterprise 2.0s ability to wreak significant cultural and hierarchical change inside organizations. Those of you tracking the Enterprise 2.0 story know the drill, namely that applying Web 2.0...

Tags: Wikis, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, User Generated Content, Tagging, Social Software, Social Computing, SOA, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SaaS, RSS, Products, Network Effects, Mashups, Governance, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, Crowdsourcing, Collective Intelligence, Collaboration, Business Process Management, Business Models, Blogs, ATOM, Architecture of Participation

Blog posts 2007-05-05

Dunn, Fiorina lash out at HP board

Dunn, Fiorina lash out at HP boardIT Industry Male-dominated ??Well, THERE is a shocker worthy of a book ...Remember, it's always somebody else's fault.Especially when it's Carlykins telling people nobody has a right to a job.I can just hear it now..."Look what you made me do!"... sound familiar to any...

Tags: Gender and diversity, Remember IT, Hewlett-Packard Co., board, corporate culture, Keyworth, Perkins

Discussion threads 2006-10-09

Why tech companies hate the blogosphere

Apple was in court last week attempting to gain access to blogger records that might unmask who leaked news of "Asteroid," a guitar-computer interface. This quest is part of a larger problem. With some exceptions, technology companies such as Apple and many others detest the blogosphere. Why? It...

Tags: blogosphere, corporate culture

Blog posts 2006-04-24

Scobleizing Microsoft's corporate culture

Scobleizing Microsoft's corporate cultureA culture of bacteria, perhaps...Whatever.Whateverhttp://www.analogstereo.com/renault_clio_owners_manual.htm

Tags: Leadership, corporate culture, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-10-02

Scoble on changing corporate culture one e-mail, post, appearance at a time

Scoble on changing corporate culture one e-mail, post, appearance at a timeThe corporate world has a culture? Oh, do explain.I thought their "culture" was just about money, their maximium profits regardless of who gets chucked into the piranha tank. Culture pertains to education, art, and intellectualism. And...

Tags: Leadership, Scoble, corporate culture, e-mail

Discussion threads 2005-10-02

Scoble on changing corporate culture one e-mail, post, appearance at a time

Scoble provides the logic behind his personal note to Ballmer or Gates in response to my post. An excerpt from his post:"I say, let's have a little fun working at Microsoft. And, yes, I am trying to improve our company's position and make sure we're doing our best to...

Tags: developer, Not-To

Blog posts 2005-10-02

Scobleizing Microsoft's corporate culture

Who says Microsoft's culture has become too bureaucratic? Forget about reorgs and hierarchies. Microsoft's chief blogger Robert Scoble goes directly to the top. Corporate bloggers take note. Scoble had an inspiration or wanted to make a point with his big megaphone about an acquisition that he thought would benefit Microsoft...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Mergers & Acquisitions, Blogging, corporate culture, Web 2.0, Scoble, Web, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, acquisition

Blog posts 2005-10-01

Raytheon Six Sigma: Building a Corporate Culture

After Raytheon Co. completed a series of mergers, they had to quickly implement a new corporate culture and eliminate duplicate processes while maintaining a focus on the customer. Raytheon produced a customized solution, Raytheon Six Sigma, which integrated knowledge management, cultural development, and successfully included customers and suppliers. Raytheon Six...

Tags: Raytheon Co., Corporate Culture, Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Knowledge Management, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

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Developing government's human voice

Government, unlike private sector companies, has not had a major review of its business processes and corporate culture. We are long overdue. by Jennifer Leggio

Tags: Voice, Government, Vertical Industries, Operational Planning, Leadership, Business Operations, Management, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-11-03

Collaboration Strategy Shortcomings? Whack the Community Manager

There's been a good flow of conversation around the role of 'community management' in large companies recently, with an underlying idea that although it's a tough job things will work out if the right people are involved, although Dennis Howlett recognises the danger of burn out....

Tags: Exec, Community Manager, Underling, Underlings, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-03

Cloud computing by industry: Novel ways to collaborate via extended business processes

Cloud ComputingThis is refreshing for a group of people to realize that the industrial food problem won't be solved by the local organics movement. We support local organics and eat that way to the best of our ability. But the real problem is corporate culture and those 40,000 items on...

Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing, business process

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

10 questions on customer service and 'delivering happiness': An interview with Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh

Online retailer Zappos has grown astronomically since launching 10 years ago. CEO Tony Hsieh talks about superior service, corporate culture, and the science of happiness. This download is also available as an entry in our 10 Things blog.

Tags: Customer Service, CEO, Jeff Cerny, Retail, Leadership, E-business/E-Commerce, Product Marketing, Blogging, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Management, Internet, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software

Download resources 2009-10-01

It's flu season: connect and optimize your workers

More than technology to truly enable remote workingThis blog brings up a big point when discussing telecommuting: the technology must be able to handle the bandwidth when it becomes the norm. But that is solved by applying some well known technologies. It is a technical shift in where the bandwidth...

Tags: Development tools, worker

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

Staff are causing security breaches by using their own mobile phones says survey

Duh. Data theft is easier than ever before.I used to work in a facility where you surrendered every electronic item at the gate. When inside, you picked up your laptop and in-house cellphone and went to work. No iPhones or Blackberries, no USB sticks, nothing. Our laptops had some effective...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, survey, mobile, phone, security, security breach, Fidel Castro, Apple iPhone, Data Theft, cell phone

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

10 things I think I think about Palm's Pixi webOS smartphone

It looks like my Treo ProVery few differences from the front point of view.I don't get it. Is it a common knowledge thatSprint is a mediocre wireless carrier? Didn't you all complained that AT&T service sucks? if that is the case, what is left among major suppliers? Verizon? Some of...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Smart phones, Wireless and Mobility, Cellular phones, smart phone, Palm Inc., Wi-Fi, Sprint Communications, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone, network

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

The taboo of failure

Google plans for failureI read sometime back about google's strategy to handle hardware failure. Instead of focussing on building expensive unbreakable hardware, they assume it a given and build it into the software to handle hardware failures. So the concept is gaining ground.http://andrewchenblog.com/2009/07/13/built-to-fail-how-companies-like-google-ideo-and-37signals-build-failure-tolerant-systems-for-anything/Great managers understand it.I once worked for a...

Tags: Strategy, great manager, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-09-07