Posts Tagged ‘environment’

Profiling in controlled environments

Saturday, October 16th, 2010

By chance (conferences, public announces from authorities) and by design (I have been workign or studying on the subjects for some time), over the last two weeks I published articles on two main issues: managing of resources, and security.

Conveniently, this week-end comes half-way through the month, and today and tomorrow I would like to share few forward-looking thoughts based on experience and observation.

As it is my tradition for week-end articles, I will try to keep both short, and to inject some “pointers” from my experience, should somebody be curious about the pre-conditions that seeded both the experience and the observation.

Managing change across time

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

If you read once in a while this chaotic website of mine, you know that I wrote here and there about change management.

I would like to share here some experience from my activities, and why I believe that adopting a common framework might be sub-optimal, but a smart allocation of resources.

To summarize:

  1. change is a constant (”panta rei”)
  2. change is made of “here and now” activities, and their antecedents and consequences
  3. if you can, do not re-invent the wheel- use an existing one…
  4. …and see how to make it fit in your environment
  5. and drop that “not invented here” attitude: you are wasting resources
  6. last but not least: ask yourself- who will keep the memory of the choices made