Looking at the Forward Edge
The forward-edge-of-the-customer-area, or Forward Edge, is the foremost limit in the network of capabilities where business capabilities are deployed in direct contact with the customer. These...
View ArticlePerformance Management: Dynamic not Static
Recently I reviewed a five page performance appraisal tool used by a software company that they believed was excellent, and they couldn’t understand why very few people were using the tool. I brought...
View ArticleDon’t Cut Costs. Laser Focus your Investments.
Many companies are working on their 2008 budgets. In many of those cases, economic forecasts point to a need to cut costs. The mandate that we have seen in this circumstances may be that a 4% cost cut...
View ArticleDennis Stevens presents to the GSU EMBA Alumni Society
Last month Dennis Stevens, the President at Synaptus, presented to the GSU EMBA Alumni Society luncheon. Dennis addressed the concepts covered in the the June 2008 Harvard Business Review article...
View ArticleEffective Project Management
Keys to the Kingdom of Strategy Execution by Dennis Stevens Being agile is critical to an organization’s success. Agility is the power of moving quickly and easily is response to outside forces. And,...
View ArticleFive Questions With…
Ric Merrifield on Business Architecture by Dennis Stevens Ric Merrifield is the head of Business Architecture for Microsoft. To view another interview with Ric check out...
View ArticleFive Things I Wish I Knew In Fifth Grade
The future is in your hands by Pete Blazek & Dennis Stevens When I was in the fifth grade, I didn’t think much about my future. I was focused on hanging out with my friends, playing baseball and...
View ArticleManagement Conversations
Developing A New Management Capability by David Hallowell & Dennis Stevens Over the last three centuries advances in technology, supportive government policies, and expanding and changing trade...
View ArticleProject Conversations
Raise the conversation above blaming and conflict by Dennis Stevens Being good at performing projects is increasingly important in many companies. It is through projects that changes in technology,...
View ArticleSo, You Want to Lead an Agile Organization?
“‘Management’ means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force. . .” ~ Peter Drucker As an...
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