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What can you do with a current vendor who is not part of your future vendor strategy road map? Vendor management strategy is composed by complex set of actions based on basic principles and tactics. You have a current scenario, and you define future set of alliances with respect your portfolio of assets. Nothing new … Read more
I found this picture that summarizes very well how the evolution of the work as we know today has changed, at least in the professional services environment that is where I work. Apart of these perspectives, I would like to highlight some others. You are a company, what is your value proposition? You have to … Read more
I already have used these maps, and I continue drawing drafts and ideas in my notebook. The value chain maps are evolving. In one hand you can find an open site were you can create and contribute to the creation of a tool for drawing the maps. http://www.wardleymaps.com/contribute.html Update March 2018 You can find the … Read more
Plan a strategy is easy if you assume that all stakeholders are going to accept the changes immediately. But this never is the case; to remove these hurdles you have to plan how to face these change stoppers. Other factor to take in consideration is speed: In the same way that when developing software you … Read more
Passion for strategy and tactics comes from different origins, some people find it playing chess, some other have a natural talent; in my case the interest comes from the days I played basketball. Companies are in continuous change, and the way they are re-organized is something it always fascinates me. Business change and that makes … Read more
The management of a portfolio of applications is in some ways similar to the management of an account, in the way that you have in one hand the customer satisfaction and on the other hand you have the profit you do. I would like to go in deep for a situation like the one showed … Read more
COBIT is seen by some IT people as a new trend and something we all should have in our organizations, bla, bla, bla… But, who promotes COBIT or other governance models? The answer is easy: The business. They are fed up of spending money on IT transformations, changes of provider, investments on pilots, and any … Read more
I have been talking to a customer of crop protection industry and how they are trying to improve their customer support. One of the ideas he was commenting me was the plans they have to improve the service support of the agriculture with smart phones. The agriculture has an smart phone, this added to the … Read more
American Productivity & Quality Center provides business benchmarking, best practices, and knowledge management research. Their mission is to help organizati ons to improve productivity and quality by discovering effective methods of improvement, broadly disseminating findings, and connecting individuals with one another and with the knowledge they need to improve. Very useful information to learn about … Read more
I found this concept so much useful for communicating strategic plans.I found it reading Simon Wardley’s blog, that is for me an enormous source of useful information. If you are interested on the concept, visit this post.