IT shouldn’t be a big group with today’s automation and commoditization of IT
It’s a story this time about a company that their IT group is 30% of the company!
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Leadership
6 signs for a healthy IT group
Based on my experience working with IT groups all over the world and speaking with many other IT leaders, there are six signs that I see in healthy IT organizations. After listening, I’ll be happy to hear your observations, ideas. Let’s create together value for all IT groups. Thanks!
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Optimize groups for emergent properties and 3 ways to coordinate and synchronize groups
Organizations exist because we found out that when you group people together, the group create skillets, competencies, and behaviors that individuals in the group are missing. The group behaviors, skillets, and competencies called emergent properties. Different emergent properties required Different size of groups. Make sure you optimized the group size for the emergent properties you
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How to eliminate silos?
Silos started as a clear division of labor into areas of expertise, while giving those areas authority and power to run them. The Administrative Management Theory coined this idea. Division of labor was a great idea in a world that saw organizations as machines and people as clogs in those machines. That was a great
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5 ways to increase creativity and innovation
This video post outlines five different options to increase creativity and innovation. Metrics & OKRs, dedicated team, allocated percentage per person, personal example, and building innovation and creativity as a group skillet. I tried to touch that advantage and disadvantage of each option and which one I found more productive.
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