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Process Improvement, Lean Processes, Or Rethinking IT Outsourcing Contracts?
AT Kearney published an interesting article on rethinking IT application outsourcing contracts. In their vision outsourcing still gives many advantages. With some guidance you can make the most of the current economic turn-down.
Getting Started With OpenValidator
I got complaints. In my blog on website conformance checks I advocated the use of OpenValidator. Users find OpenValidator not so easy to use.
Options To Beat Your Low-cost Rivals
Adrian Ryans wrote in the McKinsey Quarterly an interesting article on what you can do when you underestimate a low-cost rival. Hans Lodder discusses your options to beat your low-cost rivals.
Lean Mindset Example: A Tool Should Serve The Work!
The lean mindset lives! I get many questions on how to practice a lean mindset. An example might help!
The general manager: a dying breed
I read an interesting article on Piet Hein de Sonnaville, a well known director of a tier 1 interim management company, who concluded after a study that the interim general manager is disappearing rapidly. Due to the ever growing demand for project managers, the traditional more generic breed of managers is dying out. Being a member of this species myself, I compared his observations with mine.
Improve Your Website Performance: SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Is Equal to Google Analytics?
In my website conformance checklist I present SEO (Search Engine Optimization) best practices. A client of mine, exploiting 500+ websites for freelance professionals, invited me to discuss the website conformance checklist.
The IT-department in 2020
I was invited to the WCIT conference in Amsterdam last week. I attended a panel discussion with CIO's of public and private organizations. Although the theme for the congress was all about change and innovation, I got rather depressed with the poor comments most of the panel members made. The closing question was by far the most interesting: How will your It-department look in 10 years from now?
Web 3.0 Is Coming!
Companies are busy implementing Web 2.0: Functionality and Web Standards Conformance Best Practices. It is now time to start thinking about Web 3.0!
Managing innovation: a contradiction in terms?
Managing means control, budget, choices and organization. Innovation is all about creativity, the unknown and often anarchy. Sworn enemies, necessary evil or unexpected allies? My analysis of pragmatic symbiosis.
My Curriculum Vitae (CV) Assessment Checklist
A client asked me to review a Curriculum Vitae (CV). He thought the candidate was very suited for a project he run. I was asked to give a 2nd opinion.
Break out of the maintenance loop: the cloud as salvation?
I have commented quite often on the ridiculous high percentage of maintenance related costs within the IT budget. During the last year many of the industries mastodons have jumped on this bandwagon. Of course, all in their own interest.
My Website Conformance Check Best Practices
Forrester Research has executed a web-site check on 6 Canadian banks. The results were very bad. The most common short comings were misplaced content and functionality, inefficient task flows, illegible text and poor use of space.