How work-life and business application changes in time?

We have learned to keep questioning the meaning of our work, it becomes a great trend to look under the hood, not just unfold our full energy to prove our skill to our close community. Understanding ourselves better and check the purpose of our routine tasks speeds up the learning through our career. How can that meaningful discovery leverage to next phase of a career? What exactly a successful career means considering it at any scale? These are some of the many questions when we start dealing with our career improvement and try to higher the quality of our whole life. As a result, in most of the cases, these improvement cycles come in pulses. When we face the difficulties of building clarity the biological batteries become depleted quickly. Despite the vast energy it takes, human nature insists on continuous improvement. The problem is the pace of the actions that we invest in our future. Even making small steps, good results necessitate relentless self-control and discipline. Whe...

How much the human future protected against machines and what shall we do with the rest? After the digital revolution gave it a kickstart in the ’70s there were lots of predictions that kept scientists busy. Still, there is demand after a good model which describes the social-political-economical triangle in new integrity. The good model is simple and reliable, at least for a foreseeable time ahead. What would make this model even special is that it shall incorporate the digital trends, in large portions considering the impact of thinking-like computer algorithms to human existence? The new environment is virtually modeled by no longer three but four factors because AI has become so deterministic. Technology and nature These two categories a precisely separable. Nature is endless in time. By the human scale, we use to claim the start from the birth of earth and perceive the end of this planet in some 100 year’s distance. It describes well the attitude of mankind that we imagine ...

Reflect friendly to others but give it a fair chance to express your uncompromised idea. Learn emotional intelligence through mutual feedbacks in your community. The culture of corporates is changing with a high elan toward a more human-centric community. Transparency, openness, acceptance and other ever-newer terms are introduced to stimulate a more friendly working community. For good reason. This change is inevitable though leaders shall support the process with their full positive power. One aspect of the changing team behavior is person-to-person communication, how employees react in a wide variety of situations to the other. Emotional intelligence This seems to be a relatively new topic in people’s behavior topics. While it is a very simple thing and it was ever-present in our community. In everyday business life, we can meet the situation where it’s easy to get in fever. If an employee loses its patience and reacts to suddenly that might have bad consequences. Therefore ...

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...

The future of workforce is threatened by AI solutions, we hear such news flooding our mailbox, professional communication at online media and events. The risk lies behind the fact the AI can replace more and more sophisticated work situations. Development of programmable and reusable algorithms can find similarities in data structures, dynamic dataflows, greater and greater fractions of business processes. Not a long ago we were only talking about AI’s emerging role in repeated and simple duties in manufacturing industry. From the second half of this decade there are tangible evidences of AI utilization in sensitive core of legal services, healthcare, life science research and more. The simple fact that in 10 years over 75% of work positions will disappear shall mean that society faces to massive unemployment crisis? Give it a try and dig out the positive effects of AI technologies and AI services. How this new phenomenon stimulates  the creation of new workplaces that never exis...

Thoughts that have been distilled while working on digitization projects: I saw many people who failed and become successful again. There should be a blind and massive belief all effort is not useless and in a later time your experience will pay off. Because can come situation that you do not know in advance and the more you learn from your failures the higher the chance that suddenly you find the excellent solution. Just do not give it up, whatever happens.

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...

Nice environment, motivating project goal, good people. This stunning condition sounds very good when we plan a new project. We come together in places which is organized and ornamented according to the new standards. We can feel like a startup company when we kick off a new service development. After happy start there can occur some discrepancy that we did not expect for. Is is really a surprise or did we experience this degrade of motion most of the times? Unfortunately the real life can surprise us and if it can it does.  If we check an average day of a company from in wider context, we realize the general digitalization trends are curving it independent of what is the business profile, industry type. The problem solving related to whole scale of business subjects (e.g. software development, organizational change, vendor selection, knowledge sharing) are equally dependent on the applied business software, organization management, corporate assets including the culture itse...