There is a statistic often quoted in the business community around the world that two thirds of all projects fail to achieve their intended objectives. Usually, this is followed with a brilliant explanation as to the root cause for why they blow up on the launching pad. Then a promise comes that if we focus [...]
Archive for the ‘Information Sharing’ Category
Successful Projects Are Like Living Organisms
Posted in Information Sharing, Leadership, Management, Project Management, tagged Change Management, Leadership, Process, Project Management, value on March 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
44 seconds
Posted in Information Sharing, IT, Thought Leadership on December 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A mere forty-four seconds was the difference between first and second place in a nearly six-and half-hour race, my 12th and final triathlon of the 2009 racing season. I was the competitor who came in second. Triathlons are a unique sport, in that there are no scoreboards and usually no coaches providing information. It’s an [...]
Reduce knowledge loss impacts of a “graying workforce” by leveraging new digital technologies
Posted in Information Sharing, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Thought Leadership, tagged knowledge management on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is a good blog post discussing how new digital technologies enable talent to learn at a faster pace. Companies facing a graying effect (ex: Oil and Gas industry) should enable and encourage this learning as an opportunity to decrease impacts from knowledge loss.
25 Stretch Goals for Management
Posted in Change Management, Culture, Ethics / Values, Information Sharing, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Performance Measurement, Process Improvement, Project Management, Thought Leadership, Web 2.0 on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In May 2008, a group of renowned scholars and business leaders gathered in Half Moon Bay, California, with a simple goal: to lay out an agenda for reinventing management in the 21st century. Attendees included progressive CEOs such as Terri Kelly from WL Gore, Vineet Nayar from HCL Technologies, and John Mackey from Whole [...]
Monitoring Web 2.0 to ensure we can help clients navigate change in this new landscape
Posted in Bender Consulting Update, Change Management, Information Sharing, Innovation, Management, Thought Leadership, Web 2.0, tagged Change Management, Web 2.0 on February 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Web 2.0 technologies are going to begin to change the ways businesses operate, impacting process, org structures, systems and especially employees. Bender Consulting is watching the evolution of these Web 2.0 technologies (wikis / shared workspaces, blogs / podcasts, polling, social networking, RSS feeds, etc) to ensure our consultants understand 1) how to manage change [...]
Discussion Board for Bender Consultants Launched
Posted in Bender Consulting Update, Culture, Ethics / Values, Information Sharing, Innovation, Project Management, Web 2.0 on January 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In our continuing effort to leverage technology to increase our value to our clients, we have recently launced an internal “discussion board” for all Bender Consultants. The purpose of this discussion board is to provide a secured knowledge sharing location for our consultants. This will enable consultants working for XYZ Client to efficiently request and [...]
