Does Autonomy lead to Greater Clarity?

Mark Burgess is a theoretician and practitioner in the area of information systems, whose work has focused largely on distributed information infrastructure. He is known particularly for his work on Configuration Management and Promise Theory. He was the principal Founder of CFEngine, and is emeritus professor of Network and System Administration from Oslo University College. Read More …

Should You have Configuration Management

An excerpt from the Podcast and Transcription: Project Thinking In Configuration Management Joe:   Should every part of an organization have a configuration management system then? Jon Quigley: It should have some kind of change. It should identify the things that matter down the stream or that have to be coordinated and the things that impact Read More …

Sales- What are you asking yourself?

Are you waiting for your next performance review? Most salespeople get one every quarter and sometimes every week in the form of a commission check. However, do you spend time self-evaluating yourself? Do you have a structured method to take an objective look at yourself? Here is a short list of questions derived from a Read More …

Choosing Product Markets

Dr. Eric Reidenbach:  Exactly so. Let me back up just a little second on that too because you’ve raised an interesting point. In choosing those product markets, what you’ll probably want to do is to apply certain criteria, such as what is your current market share within that particular product market. What is the market Read More …

Creating Process Excellence in Government

 When we talk about Lean and Six Sigma, it takes a certain amount of expertise to implement it. How do you visualize taking Lean and/or Six Sigma through the government? I mean, it’s in pockets right now, but do you just grow from them pockets? Or how do you visualize that getting expanded in government? Read More …

What is Peter Drucker’s Legacy?

The Business Development Director of the Drucker Institute, Peter Gondolfo, joins me next week on the podcast to discuss Peter Drucker and the future of the institute. I think you will be quite surprised at how Peter Drucker’s Legacy is evolving. An excerpt from the podcast: To give you a little bit of background about Read More …