Posts Tagged ‘stakeholder’
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:
- change is a constant (”panta rei”)
- change is made of “here and now” activities, and their antecedents and consequences
- if you can, do not re-invent the wheel- use an existing one…
- …and see how to make it fit in your environment
- and drop that “not invented here” attitude: you are wasting resources
- last but not least: ask yourself- who will keep the memory of the choices made
Tags: change, downsizing, environment, itil, law, management, msp, outsourcing, prince2, quango, stakeholder, wheel
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Monday, May 18th, 2009
You want your model to work in reality, and therefore you have to assume that others have their own models.
It is a game. Like playing chess. Or the usual “prisoner’s dilemma”.
From models, we will move to the interaction between models- and between different decision paths within a model.
A down-to-earth introduction to the game theory.
This post is part of a series, first published in May 2009.
Tags: artificial, benchmark, change, game, gmn2009, hofstadter, intelligence, management, methodology, model, nash, negotiation, organization, prolog, real, reality, stakeholder, theory
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
When you build a model of reality, you try to reduce complexity.
Reducing complexity means making choices- and reducing the risk of something unexpected affecting the results of your model.
Actually, it means also reducing the number of parameters- and, therefore, making any evolution in your world more predictable.
But reality is not necessarily limited by your definition: and managing the reality within a model requires more that planning beforehand for what you know, in terms of activities or risks.
You have also to identify what is the “normal” way in which your model will react to unexpected changes in the “reality” surrounding your model.
This post is part of a series, first published in May 2009.
Tags: buzan, change, chart, formula, game, gmn2009, management, map, methodology, mind, mindmap, model, organization, radar, real, reality, stakeholder, theory
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
If you identify the “risks”, what could affect the conditions that you assumed that could affect your execution of the plan, then you will end up monitoring that:
- you are using the resources identified if, when, how planned
- the risks you already decided to keep under control
- whatever new happens around you that could affect your plan
- last but not least: that the activity you planned for still makes sense
It is not just the journey that you have to keep in check; it is also the destination.
This post is part of a series, first published in May 2009.
Tags: gmn2009, indicator, key, kpi, management, methodology, model, monitor, monitoring, negotiation, organization, performance, plan, planning, risk, stakeholder
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
Any organization, or organized group, whatever its purpose and composition, has what could be defined a “decision inertia”.
Any change has multiple dimensions: time, the environment were the change is carried out, the “stakeholders” (to simplify: whoever, directly or indirectly, is involved, affected, interested by a decision), etc.
In this post, we will briefly see the multiple dimensions of change, and what means managing change.
This post is part of a series, first published in May 2009.
Tags: agent, brain, casting, catalyst, change, dna, expert, gmn2009, management, methodology, organization, scope, stakeholder, technical
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