In this new, chaotic, and uncertain century, with its more and more minutely specialized occupations and skill sets and with nothing to do with the faltering economy, it’s not only human resources employees who might not be familiar with certain job skills and the actual needs of the open positions in their organizations. Believe it […]
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“Lean” is a practice that considers the effort & cost of resources for any task, other than those that create value for the customer, to be wasteful. Those tasks are targets for elimination. While Lean principles originated in the manufacturing industry, all industries have adopted Lean to make the effort needed to complete production goals more efficient.
Here are two Lean tools which can be useful to a manager for the prioritization of project tasks, and for root cause analysis when issues arise. |
A PICK chart is set up as a grid, two squares high and two squares across. The PICK acronym comes from the labels for each quadrant of the grid:
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Kill
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A fishbone diagram, also called a cause and effect diagram, is a tool for categorizing the potential causes of a problem in order to identify its root causes. The design of the diagram looks much like a skeleton of a fish. It has a head (which states the problem), a backbone (connects the head to the ribs), and it has ribs (which categorizes the causes). Hence, the name: Fishbone.
This is useful in brainstorming sessions to focus the conversation. Fishbone diagrams are typically worked right to left, with each large “bone” of the fish branching out to include smaller bones containing more detail. After the group has brainstormed all the possible causes for a problem, the manager will lead the group to rate the potential causes according to their level of importance and likeliness.
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Job interviewing is an act. Yes, you are the actor, and both sides know the rules: You, who are one of the candidates for the position, are doing your best to convince the interviewer you are the ideal candidate. The interviewer, who is the audience, has choices, is an independent thinker and often skeptic, and […]
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Saturday July 12, 2014 at 8:00 am
The Presentation: “How to Create an Innovative Organization”
Every firm faces daunting challenges: Cloud, Mobile, Social Media, Big Data, Security and an Employee Disengagement Crisis. Some are even calling this the end of business as we know it. As this transformation unfolds, talent will reemerge as the source of enduring competitive advantage. In this presentation, Frank will share how the winning companies of today have learned to unlock the talent potential of their workforce, by building innovative and high performing cultures. People aren’t interchangeable parts – they never were. Every leader must become as adept at running the human infrastructure, as they are at managing process and technology.
In this talk, Frank will share:
About the speaker: Frank Wander is an author, former CIO, and founder of PeopleProductive, a technology driven consultancy providing workforce productivity and innovation solutions to clients. After investing many years transforming failing IT divisions across corporations, Wander realized these failures had a consistent root cause: corporate cultures where the leaders knew everything about products, processes and technology, but nothing about the human factors that underpin workforce productivity and innovation. This awareness led him to write a book for Wiley Publishing, titled Transforming IT Culture: How to Use Social Intelligence, Human Factors and Collaboration to Create an IT Department that Outperforms. This book is the missing Operators Manual for the human infrastructure.
PeopleProductive helps companies build high performing cultures, by applying the human factors of productivity and innovation to unlock five levels of cultural maturity. Products include cultural assessments, cultural transformation roadmaps and implementations, management off-sites/workshops, organizational design services, workforce planning, and training. In these times of tight budgets, the largest unexploited opportunity for most companies is to unlock the full talent potential of their existing staff, often doubling their productivity.
Prior to the Institute, Frank was a Chief Information Officer at three different companies, most recently at Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. Wander is a sought after speaker and panelist at industry events who connects with his audience by sharing meaningful stories, and proven strategies for creating high performance. He has given the keynote address at many technology industry events, and has appeared on Business Insider, internet radio, and in the Wall Street Journal.
One of the questions I hear the most from other Project Managers (PM) is how to get their project team members motivated to do the work they have been assigned. A PM usually works in a matrix organization, and that means that the PM’s project team is a mixture of resources across the organization who have their own “day jobs.” So, it is important for the PM to set the proper expectations for the team. That does not mean that the PM should not hold team members accountable. So the fine line that the PM must walk is set even before the PM has resources assigned to the project. However, the question remains: How does the PM get project resources motivated?
I am open to discussion at any time on these blogs or anything else related to project management you would like to explore. If you would like to comment about this blog, please do so by posting on this blog or by responding in an email at Benny A. Recine. You may inspire a blog article. I look forward to your comments.
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This post is the first to start my 2nd year of blogging. As I look at the performance of TechTopics4U over the past year, I am impressed by how my following has grown, both organically and with my own self-promotion. For example, this site no longer has any zero-view days.
Here are my observations as to why you should use active blogging for achieving your professional goals: |
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So, finally the phone rings and the caller ID displays the name of a company you sent your résumé to. The caller is from the company’s human resources department and wants to schedule you for an in-person interview. Fantastic, this is music to your ears, but what now? Are you prepared? Do you have time […]
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Software accessed via the “Cloud” is a deployment model that provides access to software remotely. It may also be referred to simply as SaaS or as hosted applications. Since the software is vendor-hosted remotely, it removes the need for organizations to program, install, buy a lot of hardware for and regularly maintain the software.
Even though the implementation is a cloud-based, do you still to test the software? Yes, and here’s why… |
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Last night I read a magazine on which issue the front page has a heading “The Permanent Temporary Workforce”. Their in-depth section The Disposable Worker highlights several facts. Most of them are expressing the negativity that currently exists in the labor market. “Since the early ‘80s, the US economy has been taking longer to regain all the jobs lost in a downturn”. Companies are hedging their bets by hiring temps instead a steady workforce. And this trend will likely continue similar to Europe which makes a lot more use of temporary and part-time workers. It mentions also that 26% of working Americans have “non-standard” jobs. These are those that work less than 35 hours per week, independent contractors, on-call workers or day laborers. The article talks about “labor on demand” and this is on all levels and not only low paying jobs. Because of these conditions Americans are willing to accept lower pay. All in all the current conditions are gloomy but let’s focus now on the positive. The article is predicting that as soon as the economy will show signs of improvement the better employees will jump ship to a company that pays better. This will lead to openings and opportunities. The long term prediction is that a decade from now the retirement of the baby boomers could cause labor shortages which again lead to opportunities. It is important for jobseekers to understand the big picture but they need jobs now and not in the next decade. So what are they to do? Because of the tough competition the answer is not simple. Since most jobs come through networking therefore more and more networking is the answer. But here I am not talking quantity but quality. People need to become more sophisticated with their job search. They also need to learn how to benefit from the fast-evolving social media. If you don’t buy into these concepts then somebody else will. Could you guess who is going to get a job faster?
People in transition know that finding a new, suitable job is a process—and most often, an unpleasant and lengthy one. While this is true in most cases, it doesn’t have to be that way, provided the job seeker understands the search process and becomes efficient with planning, creative thinking, networking, and research. Where Do You […]
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