Category: Organizations
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The non-sense of job titles
One of the first things I faced when reinstating my LinkedIn account was stumbling upon one of the first forms to fill out “What is you current job title”. It got me thinking. While technically speaking I am freelancing, running own company from about 2014, what title should I choose? CEO? I’m anything but corporate. Managing…
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While waiting for perfect
The best blog posts are those I did not write. The best photographs of mine are those I did not take. And the best businesses I could have had are those I did not start. Those blog posts, photographs and business that only existed in my head were so perfect and so beautiful. Imagine, they…
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How do we stay relevant in our own industry?
My recent visit to the Fujitsu Forum 2015 in Munich got me thinking on what established people and companies need to do to stay relevant in our own industry. At the event, you could engage in hundreds of conversations and dozens of sessions on innovation, connected enterprise, hybrid cloud, SaaS, disruption caused by digitization and…
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Why we ended up focusing on daily deliverables?
Recently, I’ve read Ted Bauer’s article “Daily deliverables murdered strategy”. While I agree with most of the points there, I thought it could be worth looking at what made us to focus on the daily deliverables in the first place. Many of us who were at any level in the corporate world would remember either…
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Focus your organization on what you do best
Once I worked with an organization where sales figures were declining, running projects were comming to an end and there were no new projects in the pipeline. This organization panicked. They decided that they will aim to win public sector tenders. However, the only crieteria that mattered for the company to decide whether to go…