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IT Strategy – Budgeting

This first step plans the successor, the template is the current job.The budgeting of projects is often given the strongest focus in the run-up to a project. No wonder, while information about WHAT and WHEN finds its way into the boardrooms only sporadically as of today, the dear money has always been part of operational…
Program Management Post Mortem – What remained of the day

Imagine being called into a room where the air is thick enough to cut. You walk out of your typical workday straight into a wall of lost hope. Perplexed and total inner surrender expressing faces look at you. From the part of the desperate lament you could understand, you rhyme together: Now good advice is…
IT Strategie Silos – Our heads are round..

… so that thinking can change direction. As beautiful as this saying is, it often undercuts its little ugly brother „thinking in circles“, or also: thinking in silos. Why silos of all things? Silos are per se something very useful, since in an abstract sense they serve to store and protect work results. In the…
Program Management Plan – From large to small

The technical concept is to the solution architect what the project order is to the project manager. Why some projects falter here as well. Project managers often find themselves in situations where they have to manage a project which is not the first of its kind in this organization. As befits a good organization, there…
IT Strategie Decision Making – Digestive Problems

A large project can have many facets: many partners, much budget, many problems, many countries in focus. However, most of the large projects have one thing in common: there are many decisions to be made, the effects of which are not always fully foreseeable. The theoretical elephantAs many of my well-read visitors will know, elephants…
IT Strategie Sourcing – Let’s give a hand

Efficiency relates to effectiveness like cooks to porridge – the more attention you pay to the former, the more likely you are to get the desired result from the latter. To maximize the productivity of the process down the line, it is advisable to use the available resources wisely. A very central decision here is…
Escalation Management – The air is burning

Headless actionism is the most common reaction to escalations. But escalations are extremely useful, and in most cases they can be prepared very well. At least if it is possible to work out structured solutions out of the chaos that is often initially present. Escalation in the sense of an operational or project problem should…
IT Strategy – Brave new world of crypto coins

By December 2017 at the latest, even the last halfway interested person should have heard of digital currencies. The reason for this is the massive price fluctuations (both upward and downward) and the associated media coverage. What is all the fuss about? All beginnings are clandestine A little digression into a different kind of project…