Flexibility As a Criteria for Information Systems

Today more than before, flexibility or maneuvrability, is important when designing or buying information systems. This is a new kind of thinking where it is no longer sufficient to construct an information plan for the near future and design systems as planned. Plans do change often and before your system is implemented there is already a new technology available that provides other opportunities.

Cholesterol is Like the Calibre of Staff

A good manager must learn to get rid of dysfunctional staff. In a company, the dysfunctional staff can influence the good ones. Thus, the analogy with cholesterol.

Personal Change Management - It Starts When You Finished Your Career

Only a limited number of careers and the people that finished these will do exactly what is in line with the expectation of the career. For example: You study medicine, follow a specialization and you finish as a surgeon. You work as a surgeon most of your life. Even if you would switch your practice to another country, your job - being a surgeon - will be much the same.

How to Implement Change in the Workplace Without Sending Your Staff to a Psychiatrist

Effective strategies for implementing workplace change without destroying staff morale or increasing employee stress

Change, Growth And The Life Cycle (1)

Once there was a couple with serious problems in their marriage. They asked the advice of a counselor in a last attempt to resolve their conflict. After some sessions, the counselor confronted the couple with the bottleneck;

Just As Heart Ailment Is A Major Killer, Competition Is The Silent Killer

The thrust in the new millennium is competition. Competition intensifies with the emergence of a better range of products that are often of superior quality coupled with attractive and affordable pricing. In such a scenario, many products become marginalized, and like commodities, pricing becomes a key determinant in a shrinking market.

Change at the Speed of Light

There is a general belief that getting people to change their behaviour is difficult and takes a long time. I can understand this belief when there are so many examples of this being the case. Yet I am aware that we like to defend our beliefs and look for evidence to support them. We know that whatever we believe we will seek to make true. TV debating programmes are based upon this principle and it’s what causes so many arguments between people and groups. So what stops people from changing quickly and easily? Is it their deep in-grained habits, or their beliefs? Or perhaps a mix of the two?

Rumour is Like the SARS Virus, It Can Spread by Mouth, by Phone

Troubled companies are often plagued with negative unverified information, otherwise called rumour mongering. This is extremely unhealthy and can be deadly and infectious like the dreaded Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus. Misinformation and rumour are very dangerous for companies.

How to Deal with Unnecessary and Unproductive Resistance

Understanding that people could possible resist your planned change would help to prevent the same resistance later on when the measures are implemented.

Are You Throwing Away Good Ideas

Do you want to turn your business into an innovation machine where process improvements, problem-solving and bold new product ideas become the norm? Create the business context structure and focus on the long-term leadership commitment and communication activities required to execute them.

Cash is Oxygen During the Restructuring Process

Revenue is vanity, profit is reality and cash is certainty. In medical analogy, revenue is the food, profit is the water and cash is the oxygen. You cannot pay rent with profit, you can only pay your rent with hard cash. Cash talks, the rest walks.

Running Businesses Are Like Parenting - If You Love Them You Must Let Them Go

Evaluate your businesses, some may fare better if they are spun off. For others, which are terminally ill, it may be better to close them down and bury them.

Leadership v Management

Change is one of the only certainties in life – it is constant. How we adapt to change will be one of the most determining factor in evaluating our successes or our failures