Building a collaborative enterprise
What does it mean to have a collaborative enterprise? How to encourage collaboration behavior and imbibe it in corporate culture? These and other ideas are shared in my post on this topic
What does it mean to have a collaborative enterprise? How to encourage collaboration behavior and imbibe it in corporate culture? These and other ideas are shared in my post on this topic
In every organization there are stellar sales folks who have a touch of gold. For an outsider it appears that they walk in and close a deal over a handshake. Others in the sales team try to mimic their style or observe and learn but never seem to be able to match their throughput. What…
In a recent discussion with a CTO, I asked about the metrics they used for measuring the impact of AI on their business. He shared a slide that had been presented to the executive team as a bragging right that boldly claimed 87% Adoption of the company’s new AI co-pilot. When I pressed him with…
I was listening to the recent Lex Fridman’s podcast episode with Dario Amodei and the Anthropic team on the topic of AGI, AI and (of course) the future of humanity. It appears to me that the creators of AI feel obligated to talk about the risks of AI going berserk and killing us all and…
Published in 1997 One of the most challenging but often underestimated task is that of managing an IT (software development) project. It is disheartening to see that almost everyone assumes that software projects will overrun their budget and will always be delayed, no matter how much money or resources you throw at them. Thanks to…
Work-life balance and working remote (working from home) is a topic that usually instigates a debate like a discussion on God. Both sides vehemently posit their point of view by citing examples and data from various sources rarely coming to a conclusion or a common ground. In traditional and large companies, ‘working from home’ is…
Even though no one will admit it, just like in the story of the emperor with no clothes, the age-discrimination bias does exist in the industry; more so in the hi-tech industry. That does not mean that if you are in your 40s or 50s or 60s and are thinking of re-entering the work place you…