StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 16 - Strategic Analysis Multidiscipline Teams
April 30, 2008
StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve better results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag... Read more...
Live from InterACT - Bernhard Nann’s Keynote
April 29, 2008
(Posted by guest blogger, James Taylor) Back to this blog for a session on Fair Isaac's product road map presented by Bernhard Nann, Fair Isaac's CTO. Fair Isaac is in the middle of a major evolution in their decision management solutions and in their... Read more...
The Art of Follow-up
April 29, 2008
You may have heard the assertion that people are more afraid of public speaking than death. I don't yet have the statistics to back it up yet, but I think the fear of picking up the phone and calling someone you don't know, trumps both of these. I've... Read more...
Post Number 1,000
April 29, 2008
This is the 1,000th post to the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. Here are some highlights: Post number 2: Dangers of Forgetting the Proxy Nature of Data - “We use data to act as a proxy for some results of the system. Often people forget... Read more...
Genuine Curiosity’s Review of Execution Revolution
April 29, 2008
Dwayne Melancon over at Genuine Curiosity, has published his review of Execution Revolution, the new book by Gary Harpst, founder and CEO of Six Disciplines. Here's an excerpt from Dwayne's review:"This is a book designed to get your business to the next... Read more...
Discretionary Duties
April 29, 2008
From the Ask Tom mailbag: Question: I help supervise a young man at my company. He has a grating voice, a false sense of his own skill level, often fishes for complements on average work and tries to tell others how they should be doing their jobs. ... Read more...
Quest Diagnostics to Pay Back Wages
April 29, 2008
Quest Diagnostics has to has 238 employees a total of $688,772 in overtime back wages as the result of a U.S. Department of Labor investigation. Employees at the Cambridge, Mass., location were found to be misclassified as exempt, according to the DOL.... Read more...
Spread the Word: National Walk @ Lunch Day Wednesday
April 29, 2008
Mark your calendars, Wednesday is National Walk @ Lunch Day. The event encourages employees to get out and get a little exercise during lunchtime. According to the organizers: National Walk @ Lunch Day, sponsored by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association... Read more...
Live from InterACT - Monday Summary
April 29, 2008
Posed by guest blogger, James Taylor) Here's a quick summary of the posts from today (and yesterday) at InterACT. You can follow the full series over on the Smart (enough) Systems blog and subscribe by RSS or Email so you don't miss anything. ... Read more...
Microsoft Silverlight for Dashboards
April 28, 2008
Continuing our examination of cutting-edge business dashboards using RIA (Rich Internet Application) technologies, we now look at the state of the art of Microsoft Silverlight dashboards. Never heard of a Silverlight dashboard? Well, it’s no wonder.... Read more...
