IT organizations have been hardwired from past experience to think in terms of a project paradigm. We prepare, we deploy, we complete, we move on. Agile development and cloud computing are distorting that model as application vendors release new features multiple times per year. Customers once chose their deployment dates but Cloud computing has transferred that control to vendors. […]
Digital transformation is the latest holy grail of organizational change. Change is not new but unlike past changes, there is a key difference; In the past, projects would automate familiar workflows with some level of process enhancement. Employees affected by those changes had to learn a new system with a minor adjustment to the way […]
The Secrets Behind Why Employees Resist Change Many of today’s business articles repeatedly tell us that change is happening at an ever-increasing speed. Innovation, a key driver of change, is an essential requirement for any business to stay competitive. Not surprisingly, CEO’s proclaim that their most important role is to invoke change in their organization. […]
I was part of an interesting demo the other day. An employee walks into a board room and their phone automatically lights up with several pieces of indexed micro-learning content. Some content is about the projector, the video conferencing equipment and the telephone system. Common topics like how to make a conference call, turn on […]
