A week ago we all went bananas about a cute monkey wearing a winter coat and wandering into an IKEA store in Toronto. The image was cute, unexpected, so it…
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Is your corporate strategy a wishion?
“Wishion” is not a typo. Most companies have Mission and Vision statements that are sound and well written. Sadly, when it comes to strategy, what they have is a “Wish-ion”:…
Top-down is to Portfolio Management what Agile to Project Management
Top-down represents to portfolio management what agile represented to project management. In the mid nineties, as projects in information technology became more volatile and less predictable, most of them were challenged,…
Are super egos behind the frequent failure in formulating true strategy?
Mount Olympus is for immortals. It is hard to get to the executive floor, and those who make it usually have huge egos. When it comes to strategy formulation, egos…
Off-shore is getting closer with technology
Is there really a difference if your team is in a nearby city or in another continent? Not really. If team members cannot be collocated in the same room or…
The accountability dilemma
“Everyone is accountable for corporate results” is a stock phrase that we hear too often these days. The idea that every worker from his/her desk or workstation is accountable for…