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Defining System Requirements 20 Oct 2010 | 09:38 pm
This section is designed to explore the concept of defining requirements, from a business perspective, that can be used to inform system developers or implementers on what is needed to achieve busines...
Making Sense At Work 1 Oct 2010 | 09:00 pm
When we view an organisation as a system for sense-making, we can see how power is can be used not only as a tool to get things done in a particular way, but also as a tool that affects the sense-maki...
King III and the CIO 28 Sep 2010 | 02:50 am
With King III being a much talked about governance requirement for JSE listed companies I thought I’d look at the Information Technology implications of King III – specifically how it affects the CIO....
Power in Business 15 Sep 2010 | 09:00 pm
Does a senior management team command the power to reject the collective intelligence of the organisation below it? The answer may lie equally in the beliefs of the employees as in the practices of th...
How Does Language Affect Your Organisation? 9 Sep 2010 | 09:00 pm
When we look at an organisation from a perspective of language, metaphor and representation, as suggested by Julian Day and Mike Jackson, we discover that the language spoken by many of the top manage...
Business Leadership Effectiveness 27 Aug 2010 | 09:00 pm
When we have done research into leadership styles we have often detected a dismissive attitude towards the employees by a management team. The management team have an opinion that they know what is ri...