This has now become a passionate mantra for us at TMG and many of our clients are probably getting a bit weary. However, a recent sad disaster illustrates the point dramatically (our prayers and condolences to all affected). A Lion Air flight crashed in Indonesia killing all 189…
For generations, this is how technology worked: the IT department decided what the company needed, they built it or bought it, implemented it and went on to next bit of technology. Sometimes the business was consulted on what it needed and sometimes it wasn’t. IT was measured on…
I wrote a blog about a year ago “Avoiding pitfalls in strategy execution”, highlighting an article I had read in HBR. Last week I stumbled upon another article “Execution is a People Problem, Not a Strategy Problem” and my first thought was – YES!! it’s all about that…
No, there is no typo in the title – the C stands for CHANGE. I am working on a presentation for an ISM dinner meeting in Pittsburgh next week entitled “Sourcing IS Change Management” which was first delivered at a Sourcing Interest Group conference back in 1998 (of…
Now maybe the thousands of alumni of TMGs’ competency development programs will understand why we always start each and every workshop with a contract between TMG and each attendee that stipulates the responsibility of each attendee if they want to develop competency – APPLICATION or ADOPTION. In a…
