August, 2008

How do you inspire desire and confidence?

To reduce (or perhaps to ideally eliminate) risk from some perspective, or at some level, how do you inspire desire and confidence within C-levels and youth so that all more so say “I want to, and I can” increasingly be a catalyst and collaborative contributor to increasingly enhancing social responsibility from some dimension within the universe, our world, an organization, an individual, or perhaps even a product or service?

Organizational structure, processes, values, vision and behaviors may be among contributors to a culture for continual learning, employability skills development, knowledge transfer-development-management and on-going capability maturing; extending a positive mindset for ever increasing inherent quality is however the key to increasingly moving all to help towards a brighter and brighter future for the global community.

Find your purpose. Realize your value. Realize that you can help make a positive difference. Answer the question below and beam value inherently, intrinsically and pervasively, into the future. Thank you for doing so.

How do you inspire desire and confidence in others to exemplify goodness, and achieve greatness for their benefit and the benefit of all?

Enable Passion and Achievement to ever increasing degrees of quality, value, excellence and simplicity. Thank you for doing so.

Research Assistant, Research This… Thank you for doing so.

A comprehensive list of ways IT can be a help to practicing and increasing what Corporate Social Responsibility fully means.

This post will be submitted to Whatis.com in response to their 8-28-2008 email entitled “Let us research an IT topic for you”. An excerpt from the email is indented.

Celebrate Labor Day by letting us do the labor

Great would be a related reply in the form of a comment with a link to information that will help any number of people or organizations enhance the application of corporate social responsibility, intrinsically and pervasively, from various perspectives (to for example perhaps help our world and all within be increasingly wiser, more peaceful, healthier and wealthier).

What does or can Corporate Social Responsibility really mean and how can IT be a catalyst for related progress?

GanttHead: The CIOs First 30 Days, Part I

If you are interested in exploring strategy shaping areas of being a new CIO, you may like to see this. Each installment will apparently present a series of questions (and answers) that may help influence direction when establishing a foundation for success. The related reading may for example help with: building peer constituencies and assessing perceptions; assessing the IT organization – culture, talent, infrastructure & maturity; assessing service levels – satisfaction, issues and complexities. For a couple of prior VIIP posts related to GanttHead see i, ii. This post takes no credit, simply shares awareness of some potentially interesting reading.

What drives you towards staying with your employer?

Applying a positive spin to the quote below, it may be that good people stay with good employers because of things like having a good boss and work/life balance. What drives you towards staying with your employer?

Results from the recent SearchCIO-Midmarket.com salary survey show that 30% of survey respondents left their last job due to “dissatisfaction with management.” This beat out company downsizings or mergers (18%), a change in a role or position (15%) or work/life balance (14%).

Value judgments, cost trade-offs, human factors, trends, market strengths and timing

In today’s world what commonalities may make the daily decisions of a software manager similar to those of a movie producer? In today’s world is it true that 75% of all software projects at Fortune 500 companies fail, that 33% are cancelled and that twice as many exceed budget by over 200%? The IBM Rational Software Developer Conference sounds like it may have been interesting based on Grady’s June 12 blog postings in the handbook of software architecture. If not already registered for IBM TV you can do so here and perhaps watch some of the noted conference keynote videos or R-Heroes episodes. Perhaps the quality that is inherently associated will help you beam some value intrinsically and pervasively to others within and external to your organization. 

Inspire confidence in each person to be contributors to continually improving quality, inherently

As evolution ideally moves all towards an increasingly more perfect world perhaps there will be less and less cause for insurance. Accept perhaps in relation to risks that may be innate to research and development activities which attempt to enable further progress. By the time a product or service has left the R&D domain, and becomes applied and made use of by the public, ideally any residual risk is visibly stated on the product or within product documentation. Today’s world is better at this than was the case in the past. In the future the world must become better at this increasingly. In an apparent contradictory fashion (within sciences, perhaps even computer science languages, and in economics and in various other aspects of business and life) making quality increasingly more so inherent (or increasingly occurring more so inherently), means recognizing a dichotomy that seeks both to prevent and enable change, and in so doing aims to ensure both managed consistency and managed improvement. Accepting that change is a requirement of improvement, increasingly enhancing the inherent quality management of your organization and the world (such as by advocating the implementation, creative maturing and continually innovative (embedded) application of a mindset that grows assurances, controls, and improvements intrinsically and pervasively from all perspectives), will increasingly mean all helping to enhance quality decisions to enable continually better balance from various perspectives including relative to business empowerment, IT governance, and ultimately public good. All connected to software, technology and information must increasingly come together to continually help from various perspectives to make things better. Thank you for doing so.

Thank you for recognizing that risks in the world today require each of us to be an inspiration in some positive way in order to inspire the continual enablement of the confidence of each person to be contributors to knowledge transfer, development and management in order for there to increasingly be higher and higher collective intelligence, imagination, wisdom, quality, value, excellence, simplicity, and goodness.

Inherent to risk oriented successes, you may find a connection to inspiration

It may be new to you to see risk and inspiration in the same sentence. It may also be new to you to think risk can be good, particularly if you believe that in a perfect world risk should not exist. As a catalyst for continual improvement you may understandably like to have capability increasingly matured in every respect so risk is progressively replaced with greater dimensions of innate quality and value. With each milestone you achieve, remember that quality is not a destination but an unending journey of pure potentiality. Along the journey you and your organization may decide that a particular level of quality is acceptable at a particular juncture. In the same manner you and your organization may decide at particular junctures that a particular level of risk may be too. In any event ideally the continually evolving balance between Risk Management and Quality Management somehow inherently grows inspiration to further enable progress and to overcome obstacles whether associated with Business, IT or other aspects of quality of life. While this post takes no credit, ideally you find bits of inspiration within this webpage (such as in relation to a new Brandt video, Risk).

Be a catalyst for inherent quality and value

For the conscious ones out there who enjoy a good wisdom flash, may you somehow be a catalyst for spreading inner joy (quality) and inner peace (value) within interactions and interrelated products, services and mechanisms. For those who may be interested in a bit of reading perhaps listen in for the inside scoop about how some companies hire top talent. Whether you’re a CQO, CIO or everyday IT or Business Pro, may you have a wonderful weekend that is intrinsically and pervasively blessed with inner peace and inner joy.

No. 1 destination for companies looking to outsource their green IT data centers

Thinking Green IT? Iceland it seems is; as Iceland apparently wants to become No. 1 for companies looking to outsource their green IT data centers. Enjoy a new Internet Evolution video.

What plans do you have to improve quality that inherently may help your organization, other organizations and the world in general?

At the heart of managing people well

Respect in the workplace is paramount to increasingly growing collective interpersonal and other skills at all levels. In every direction it (respect) is therefore vital and fundamental to increasingly building good management, healthy workplaces and ultimately an increasingly better society. Manifestations of abuse of power, objectionable conduct directed towards another, attempts to intimidate or humiliate, are surely unhealthy behaviors that can create a hostile and offensive environment, workplace and world. Vital to all interactions and the growth of a positive society are therefore respectful communications. Ideally all throughout the world increasingly recognize this and do their best to give positive energy to others to help all develop their social and other skills and feel increasingly secure. Ideally all can try better to not make attempts to diminish the capable people around them. There is no value in doing so or in subjecting someone to unjustified criticism, or in attempting to humiliate another in front of others. Ignoring, overruling, isolating and excluding someone who has value will not help you, the organization or the world in the long run. Ideally each person can increasingly see this, catch themselves and others before it is too late and do something positive to help ensure that every person has the necessary access and visibility into matters pertinent to them so every person can have greater potential to be their best so they in turn can do their best to try to help others to be their best. There is no value in setting someone up for failure by giving them unrealistic goals and deadlines, by denying necessary information and resources, or by overloading them or by taking away all or some of their work and perhaps replacing it with something demeaning. Equally in the final analysis it is not good practice to increase someone’s responsibility while removing or limiting the appropriate and necessary authority. Given that it is a misdirected need that controls others, and that ultimately drives attempts to intimidate, ideally the world continually works towards finding better balance (for example between governance and empowerment). Ideally all increasingly see that there is a compelling case for unending work in positive directions which aim to help create environments with innate characteristics for greater peace, joy, fun and productivity that among other allow for better decision making, reduced risks, and greater benefits for all.  Replacing fear with understanding, compassion and caring may not always be easy, but ideally we all get better at trying to do so, as at the heart of managing people well and ensuring greater dimensions of intrinsic and pervasive value are such qualities which inherently tie into increasingly trying to show each other better and better, Respect.

Inner career power, heartfelt integrity

According to Robbins, people stay in unsatisfying careers because they’re afraid of moving forward and feeling unqualified, but he says fear is just undirected imagination.

What have you found works to propel your career?

Perhaps this works for you: being humble, not saying you deserve something, deepening your understanding of relationship marketing, and promoting what you do best based on your heartfelt integrity. Perhaps by consciously changing your thoughts, you will begin to see major changes taking place in your life (perhaps by attending a Dr. Wayne Dyer life-changing workshop, perhaps in Tampa or Maui).

Perhaps what works for you when you reach a point of contention, is not insisting that you are right, but instead ensuring all more so can benefit by the inherent qualities and goodness that each person can bring to help find a pathway to a positive mutually beneficial solution.

If you have an inner career power secret, such as heartfelt integrity, feel free to share it with others (perhaps like Robbins and Dyer do). Thank you for doing so.

Framework revised 2008; is it helping, or can it?

Perhaps the 2008 revision of MOF can help improve the inherent quality of your organization, for example perhaps relative to service management functions associated with Business and IT alignment, IT Governance, Compliance and Risk Management.

As noted within MOF’s 5.1 GRC SMF document, certainly this is true…

“Governance, risk, and compliance are potentially far-reaching and interwoven activities that require participation by everyone in the organization”

If you have not already, perhaps do some related reading and thinking. Feel free to also share whether the revision has been a help to your organization, or whether you believe it can be in the future. Thank you for doing so.

Have a great weekend.

Love to hear from an active OOP developer or two

Perhaps you have grown to appreciate the style of the Word of the Day crew at WhatIs.Com. Perhaps you have also grown to appreciate the style of programming known as OOP. Did you think a model organized around objects rather than actions (and data rather than logic) would ever reach its current level of popularity? Of the related languages that exist in the modern world, what do you consider to be your favorite or best friend and why? What inherent qualities of your favorite do you like most? What innate characteristic of quality has it helped you produce? Is Ruby your favorite, “A dynamic, interpreted, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity”? Love to hear from an active OOP developer to two. Thanks in advance.

Global embedding of good practice

By now you’ve likely at least heard of ITILv3 and CobiT4.1. You may in fact be making related plans in your organization. What about PSP BOK Version 1.0 (August 2005, since revised and released March 26, 2008)? As more and more read 5.1 and other parts, will commonsense principles become more embedded globally? Will reading and applying the document help overcome problems innately within a young profession that potentially has the most pervasive influence within the modern world? It just may be that real quality does exist and that it must increasingly become inherent within each of us, within all interactions, within that which we use, create and imagine. Intrinsically the critical component of continued forward progress just may be each of us increasingly partaking in good personal practices and positive collaborations.