Why do Some Dashboards Succeed While Others Fail? by Rita Hadden
At a recent Gov 2.0 Summit, Ellen Miller, a recipient of prestigious technology accolades and an advocate for Open Government who promotes the use of technology to increase transparency, said that the data in the USASpending.gov dashboard “is almost useless”. Miller stated that some numbers on this dashboard are “over reporting, under reporting, and not reporting”*, while…
Force Multipliers for High Performing Teams by John “Hatch” Borneman
John Borneman here. In today’s rapidly changing business environment “solid” teamwork is critical for delivering outstanding results. To truly achieve extraordinary results your team needs to lock on to key best practices or what we call Force Multipliers. Below are four critical Force Multipliers that can help make your team a High Performing Team.
Eurologistics Magazine: “Guerilla Transformation” – Change an Insurgency into a Movement – April 2011
“Partyzanci transformacji”, published in the April 2011 issue of Eurologistics Magazine – in Polish. Download PDF “Guerilla Transformation” – Original article in English. Download PDF
On Gambling, Logic, Statistics – and Project Portfolio Return Optimization
Several years ago, a good friend of mine invited me for a “guy’s weekend” in Atlantic City where we were to stay at the Tropicana. It sounded interestihttp://www.atlanticcitynj.com/ng enough as he and I always had a few laughs together and I had never really been to a casino before. In fact, when we arrived at the Tropicana, one of…
Barrier of Complacency to Competitive Advantage by Darrell Casey, PhD
To remain competitive in the market requires management to take an active role in recognizing and acknowledging that the business environment is changing daily. As Sullivan and Harper (1996) explain, “Today, we face fundamental shifts in technology, markets, human resource development, global distribution, information management, government intervention, and other critical dimensions of the strategic environments in which…
Defuse the Process Bombs by Kelvin F. Cross
The directive was clear, “You have a week to find a way to defuse our ‘process bombs.” This was the challenge put out by the new Vice President at a Fortune 200 company upon inheriting a business process fraught with delays and errors.