Business Acumen The Most Critical Skill’s Shortage in IT?
When You Don’t Know Where You Are Going Any Direction Will Do! Businesses increasingly faces an IT skills shortage - a shortfall between the supply of qualified IT professionals and the necessary IT skills. In this blog article, I explore the business implications of what I...
My Visuals For Today’s Leadership Talk
Later this afternoon I will be speaking at "The Institute For Performance & Learning Conference & Trade Show" at the Toronto Convention Centre.
Here's the visuals I will be using to support my talk - "The Most Valuable Personal Characteristics For Leading Change".
The_Most_Valuable_Personal_Characteristics_For_Leading_Change.pdf
PR 65 - Enabling Strategic Engagement With Business Relationship Management
Navigating The Complexities and Tiger Traps Of Service Provisioning
All human relationships are complex and fraught with challenges related to bias, expectations and emotion. Perhaps one of the most challenging relationships of all to maintain in a long term positive light is the relationship of service provider and consumer. Challenging...
My Visuals From “The 5 ITSM Projects You Should Start Doing Tomorrow Morning”
I just finished the webinar, and here are the visuals I used. Feel free to download them:
The_5_ITSM_Projects_You_Should_Start_Doing_Tomorrow_Morning_-_Sept_24,_2015.pdf
The session was recorded and it will be made available from Pink Elephant very soon. Watch for a further announcement and...
2nd In The Series Of Leadership Articles: Vision & Objectives
I've written about this before - the fact that most IT Managers are unable to tell me their current business objectives.
So what exactly is the difference between a "Vision" and "Objectives"?
Find out by reading this latest piece I posted to LinkedIn.
1st In A Series Of Leadership Articles: Ethics & Values
I have posted to LinkedIn the first in a short series of articles taken from my "Leadership MasterClass" workshop.
It introduces the "Leadership Capability Cloud" and then scratches below the surface on the difference between "Ethics" and "Values".
Let me know what you think?
PR 64 - Enterprise IT Governance - MIA
For a team to win games and claim championships, it needs to be more than a group of individual star players with unique sets of specialty skills. Winning teams operate under a common vision and mission, and share a playbook established by strong leaders who understand how the various members...
My I Minute Video Message on Cyber Security & Resilience!
Start your day with just a little education on one of the biggest issues we're facing in IT & business today!
Resilience Is Not Another Name For Security - Just Ask The Fukushima Power Plant Operator
Security measures help us to AVOID breaches. That's a good thing. We should all undertake cyber security, and every organization does - to some degree or another.
Cyber resilience on the other hand goes beyond security measures to includes additional plans and actions for how to deal with the after-effects...
Avoid The Headlines!
This past February at Pink15 I expressed the opinion that it's time we paid more attention to the increasingly diverse threats to our cyber assets.
The justification for this has never been more obvious. Every single day - and I mean EVERY SINGLE DAY! - there are new stories of...