How work-life and business application changes in time?

How to find the right momentum to start new things in business? There are smaller or bigger milestones in our career that we usually realize only in retrospective. Every moment that we live is singular but we are not able to have clarity and self-confidence to design the next step precisely. It is too complicated to put our situation in context and stick to the plan whatever happens. Nevertheless, a good career itinerary always helps to navigate our success and realize the right moments for bigger actions. In which part of the career cycle I am now? Let’s focus on the business career though it’s not strictly separable from social life. The progress of a career follows a periodic pattern that offers us the experience of good and bad. It is not that binary phenomenon rather a colorful journey. Much help is needed to understand whether we are in a stagnating phase of there is a booming opportunity just waiting on the doorstep. If the situation is not that disruptive then we are in ...

Still there are many way to improve the performance of a business. The classic frameworks are focusing on specific domain of business operations. These domains can be technology oriented like system architecture and lifecycle management. Other management systems and methodologies are developed upon human aspects. Such systems fall under category of organization development. What makes the picture more complex but even real is that corporates use not only one business improvement system, rather they mix multitude of relevant methodologies. Just name some of the big systems, methodologies or toolboxes: Balanced Scorecard, Organization Change Management, Innovation Management, Continuous Improvement, IT Service Management, Project Management standards. The variety of tools that are used to shape business are dependent on the conviction of actual leaders, the advisors who have wide range but different scope of expertise and seasoned by the given conditions of the company. The standard sys...

Alike great products and services, we shall be able to design our journey through our carrier. How to design a carrier in advance? No matter what is the role, what is the educational background, we are living a life that surrounds us with such conditions that hard to discover in its complexity. Easy way could be to find a software, a new business application where we input some profile information and have good predictions. These kind of applications can be found in the area of human capital management, there are vendors who offer add-on solutions to basic people management process. There are many approaches to help, motivate and retain human workforce that all employee are support to take benefit on. Some tools concentrate on building better social work-life, some of them stimulates new business ideas. What the employee is looking for is something more, they want to understand the clear expectations and able to express their contribution to the common business purpose. As these m...

We are living in exiting phase of business evolution that is revitalized by combination of software and new approaches for motivation. We can find wide choice of methods and tools that are supposed to make us trained to feel more able and safe in achieving our goals.  On the rapid learning curve of organizations the realistic, optimum approach to success is still missing . Team players in business shall find the right balance to put the learnings into effective action, while not suffering from overcomplexity of everyday business life. In general, a teamwork is overloaded with tasks, backlogs that makes us all time busy. In this overloaded pace it is hard to identify and measure our values and share the result with others, while holding continuous motivation . We want to show to players of digital work life a new dimension, the new way of thinking that establishes capability of reliable assessment of ever more challenging business environment. Generating success sha...

New processes, new applied methods need economical justification. Typical example is when software are introduced to the work group so that it makes their life easier, they can work more productive. Usually, the mandate is already in place when the users see the new software or hear a non alterable fact about rolled-out new business functions. The nice and optimum way to see the new business application around should be naturally supported by productivity measurement as far as the improvement of productivity is goal of the company. Some of direct or indirect influence factors of better business performance shall be taking into consideration anyway. Direct influence on productivity The hard factors, tangible effects are the classics like time, saving resources and to higher the quality. Measuring shall not be difficult but always comes something in between that interferes our plan for transparency and measurement. Loosing the focus at the end : we are most of the time in hurry, ther...

It took ages to develop the first ERPs and roll out to successfully support core business operation. ERP is an acronym for management of business resources, maybe all ones that important. In fact while implementing the knowledge about business, processes shall be mapped, filed, overviewed and so on, many times. It seems that consulting helps to understand ourself and resign that it cost a fortune to finally arrive to a phase of deployment. For the time of taking the whole pack into use it becomes practically aged. It was not alway so, while oldschool companies were not changing that disruptive way, nor they neither the business world around. Nevertheless ERP controlling the core business took lots of energy to deploy and operate. Finally when the company surrendered was heading to multiple decades of a practically strictly fenced single vendor cooperation that was only good for the vendor and their delivery partners. Let us have a look to the other side of the coin. The consumeriza...