management
High Performance Organizations: strong leadership definition
Submitted by Hans van Nes on Sat, 27/02/2010 - 06:00After my last blog in which I advocated strong leadership being the most important aspect to achieve a high performance organization, I promised you to give you my definition of leadership combined with the comments I would have received from you.
High Performance Organizations (HPO): doomed without leadership
Submitted by Hans van Nes on Sun, 14/02/2010 - 12:25A lot of analysis has been done and many books have been written on the topic of why certain organizations outperform compared to their competition or peer group. But although the concept of High Performance Organizations (HPO) is well documented and some good checklists are available for (self) assessment, its seems difficult to achieve excellence. I‘ve been talking to many companies over the last three years, big and small, old and new.
Incompetence in IT-recruitment: a Top 5
Submitted by Hans van Nes on Sat, 30/01/2010 - 04:59Helping people finding new jobs on a regular basis, hiring loads of people over time as a manager and looking into interesting opportunities myself, I've build up a rather bad picture around how internal and external recruiters handle the selection process of candidates for IT- and IT-management jobs. Here are the top annoyances that are encountered by a lot of people in IT.
Improving Business Process Performance: My Approach
Submitted by Hans Lodder on Sat, 23/01/2010 - 06:10This week I was involved in a discussion regarding a business process performance improvement project. This projects objective is to improve the efficiency of a hospital polyclinic by reducing the number of No Show patients.
My Favorite Management Motto's
Submitted by Hans van Nes on Sat, 16/01/2010 - 05:34I was asked the same question as Hans Lodder of listing my favorite management books. My answer was that there are good, bad and stupid remarks in any book. In general I would say a few important things to remember and lot to forget. Those things that really stick become often a theme or motto in your daily (business) life. These are my favorites.
IT resourcing after the recession: update your choices
Submitted by Hans van Nes on Sat, 02/01/2010 - 06:58Six months ago, I published my blog IT resourcing during the recession: call for tough choices. Since we seem to slowly climb out of the recession, I want to review if anything has changed regarding the HR observations I made. Using the same bullets, these are the adjustments we need from here.
Who wants radical business process change?
Submitted by Hans van Nes on Sat, 19/12/2009 - 07:11Engaging with a smart group of experienced managers with a variety of backgrounds in the IT industry, we discussed the viability of a radical change focused team. Not just the next standard times & materials based consultancy organization but a result focused and rewarded team that creates breakthrough results. For me the prime question is if there are business managers waiting for radical change agents.
Death by information overload
Submitted by Hans van Nes on Sat, 05/12/2009 - 05:00Last week there was a Dutch initiative to have a “Email-less Friday”. The aim was to communicate directly to people or by phone and not via that non-personal, sometimes confusing but always omnipresent electronic communication format that swaps us every day. Just a funny news item or are we really being strangled by information overload?
More on an Actionable Dashboard
Submitted by Hans Lodder on Sat, 28/11/2009 - 07:01Actionable dashboards live! Not only is
my blog read more than 200 times in the last couple of weeks,
and it is also subject to a
LinkedIn discussion! Time to update you on what is going on.
KPI's in a not-for-profit environment
Submitted by Hans van Nes on Sat, 21/11/2009 - 06:02I was asked by one of our readers to elaborate a bit on the use of Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) in not-for-profit organizations. The specific question was how to define sensible KPI's for a social enterprise which aims to conserve the nature around Mount Kaliandra Arjuna in East Java, Indonesia. (in my opinion a very good initiative you can check out at www.kaliandrasejati.org). Generalized this is what I answered.
