Blog entries

Customer Value

Melanie Cheong — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:43:48 +0100

Coming from the IT world of 1’s and 0’s, technologists can sometimes see things in black and white, and struggle to reconcile both views. Certainly customer value is a variable which obviously depends upon the customer - their needs but also their maturity in knowing what is appropriate for their situation.

Wikipedia explains that “in Chinese philosophy, the concept of yin (ying, for those less versed in the Chinese language) and yang
is used to describe how polar, seemingly conRead More...

Business Processing

Bhuvan Unhelkar — Tue, 18 May 2010 03:08:50 +0100

Business processes represent an opportunity for dialogue about collaboration, re-engineering and autRead More...

Turbulent Times Issue

Bhuvan Unhelkar — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:06:27 +0100

Tough business times are not new. What is new is the rapidity with which economic difficulties can aRead More...

Process in the Kitchen - Part I

Louis J. Taborda — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:24:48 +0100

There are a couple of thoughts related to the cooking theme that have visited me lately .... a result of having to nurse an injured foot and so watching too much TV perhaps?

Anyway, has the efficiency of TV chefs ever amazed you and got you thinkinRead More...

How Many Project Managers Does it Take?

Louis J. Taborda — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:49:48 +0100

In discussing the current state of projects in a large enterprise with an ex-colleague, he shared a shocking revelation witRead More...

New Editor for Alinement Magazine

Louis J. Taborda — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:49:21 +0100

The Alinement Network is marking a major milestone with Bhuvan Unhelkar of MethodScience coming on board as the editor of the AlinementRead More...

Teaching IT Savvy!

Louis J. Taborda — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:00:00 +0100

In their book entitled "IT Savvy" (see all new experimental Amazon sidebar below) Peter Weill and Jeanne Ross have done something that does us all a favour. The subtitle "What Top Executives Must Know to Go From Pain to Gain," is brilliant positioning for which we should all be grateful.

Most experienced practitioners know that the problems enterprises have in delivering new business capabilities cannot ALL come from IT's lousy project execution. Some part of the
blame for the lowRead More...

Massively Collaborative Coherence

Louis J. Taborda — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:24:27 +0100

The annual New York Time's feature covering "The Year in Ideas" an interesting read and highly recommended.

But there was Read More...

A project by any other name ....

Louis J. Taborda — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:14:55 +0100

What do you call all those things that change the enterprise? The collective noun for projects?

The simple answer is a portfoliRead More...

Different Stars

Louis J. Taborda — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:30:26 +0100

I don't wish to plug a multinational .... especially not for free. But every now and then the "Big Boys" do something that is really quite impresRead More...

Once more unto the breech ...

Soris Lalonda — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0100

Once more unto the breech dear friends .....

Yes, this site was hacked ... even as we were getting it ready for the next step it Read More...

Why Bother?

Louis J. Taborda — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:00:00 +0100

It all started with a desire to disseminate my PhD research.

I don't think it's really too much to ask that after nine years of research. At this point my thesis has a readership of more than a handful of academics - three of whom were my examiners - and my mother and sisters who at least flipped the pages respectfully.

Anyway, blogging seemed to be the way to get the message out in a digestable form for practitioners .... after all, that was the audience I was always targeting.Read More...

New Media, Old Conflicts & Some Hope

Louis J. Taborda — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:00:00 +0100

There is something of the Web 2.0 enabled "new media" revolution in the underlying philosophy of the Alinement Network. After all, merely to attempt to create an online magazine site indicates that (I at least thinkRead More...

Magazine 2.0

Louis J. Taborda — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:00:00 +0100

I was in the newsagents recently and came across a magazine with a pertinent message - the front cover screamed Magazine 2.0. It was an experiement by the Anthill Magazine to secure user content and even run a contest to design its front cover based upon user submissions.

How about that! I had to buy the magazine of course as it was a hardcopy version of what the Alinement Network is attempting to do. There are differences and in a way it is a lot more aggressive to apply the Web 2.0 princRead More...

Blogging the Backstory

Louis J. Taborda — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:00:00 +0100

When the Alinement Network becomes the go-to site for the management community itÂ will be interesting to see how it all started ...... and if it dies in the gutter with the whole world of netizens oblivious to our lofty aims ..... then this becomes a cautionary tale of wild hubris.

Either way - it should make for fun reading ..... for my kids, if no one else!

With that, I hereby start blogging the "backstory" to the Alinement Network community site ..... warts and all.