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Comment on Managing Change: The Art of Balancing by frederick winslow taylor - StartTags.com

frederick winslow taylor - StartTags.com — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:02:05 +0000

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Comment on Managing Change: The Art of Balancing by admin

admin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:01:28 +0000

Thanks Eric – yes, I agree that the lifecycle of change has to be managed across all these dimensions. Whether it’s plan-do-check-act, or discover-analyse-design-engineer-manager or assess-envisage-engage-plan: a disciplined approach and getting all the stakeholders to recognise the state change phases is a key requirement.

In my experience there are many different concurrent examples of these lifecycles going on at any one time. This is yet another challenge of aligning the moving parts.

Comment on Managing Change: The Art of Balancing by change management model

change management model — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:57:05 +0000

change management model…

Have you read my change management model blog post? Usually applying those steps towards change are useful in any situation….

Comment on Collaboration – Teamwork or Treason? by Collaboration Governance - We have the technology « Perspectives in Management

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:09:12 +0000

[...] As collaboration becomes a core capability, people will see that it’s not being connected that counts – it’s being a valued contributor who enables others to achieve their goals. [...]

Comment on Organisational Cells by Finding the Pieces « Perspectives in Management

Finding the Pieces « Perspectives in Management — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:58:52 +0000

[...] wide picture in which to align these regions and in my experience, there are a number of primitive mechanisms underlying all of these [...]

Comment on Alignment and Focus by Finding the Pieces « Perspectives in Management

Finding the Pieces « Perspectives in Management — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:57:23 +0000

[...] While each person offers a unique contribution and holds individual perspectives, management practices are designed to apply and improve similar kinds of capabilities. Personal behaviour and skill sets do need to be managed, but this form of management is conducted in a completely different frame of reference than that of groups of people. I appreciate that these frames may grow closer, but practically, in today’s professional management practices, the focus is on groups of practitioners. [...]

Comment on Management Dualism by Finding the Pieces « Perspectives in Management

Finding the Pieces « Perspectives in Management — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:09:04 +0000

[...] and skill sets do need to be managed, but this form of management is conducted in a completely different frame of reference than that of groups of people. I appreciate that these frames may grow closer, but [...]

Comment on Piecing Together Alignment Puzzles by Collecting the Pieces « Perspectives in Management

Collecting the Pieces « Perspectives in Management — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:06:48 +0000

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Comment on Governance 2.0 by admin

admin — Sun, 17 May 2009 23:52:49 +0000

I agree Paul – and thanks for consummating the Comments on the Blog!
The first step is to have higher quality conversation face to face and in meetings. One of the tests of this quality is the ability of the participants to be able to describe how the area they manage is going to support the people who depend on it to the satisfaction of the other parties.
The beneficial baby step is to add this discipline to the meeting format and enable participants to use e.g. a wiki as the on going whiteboard.
The principles of management control have of course been around a long time – more and more ubiquitous communication technology can help to bring focus to the age old problems of accountability and shared understanding. It may be generational, but I think the current environment has helped all generations to appreciate risk and the need to better align stakeholders to respond effectively.

Comment on Governance 2.0 by Paul Merrill

Paul Merrill — Sun, 17 May 2009 23:09:02 +0000

John,

Long time no see! I saw you commentary and though that I’d be the first to start the comments! I agree whole heartedly about your opinion, increasing the communications in an organisation via wiki’s and blogs can only help governance.

My take is that while taking the web 2.0 route is easy, it really depends on the culture of the organisation and the push from management, both at a senior level and middle manager level. I believe in some companies sharing information and creating knowledge repositories is encouraged and valuable. In others, while the tools are made available, it fails, mainly because it is not rewarded nor encouraged by management. In some industries, such as financial services, the creation of the lean and mean organisation has meant that most people don’t have the time to contribute anything additional because they are always running flat chat.

I’m thinking that if a company is interested in opening the comms lines, then they should start with group face to face meetings to discuss the issues the company faces at all level. These meetings should be periodic so it gets people use to debating, expressing opinions, making suggestions, etc. These debates/ideas can be captured by someone with the web 2.0 tools. Once people get use to communicating and sharing ideas, they may find that it is easier to share between meetings by just using the tools. After a while, the meeting disappear but the debate continues.

Not trying to sound like a cynic, but I have yet to run into a company in Australia where management has made that commitment. Happy to be proven wrong however!